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Copper :: Copper (n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper..

True-penny :: True-penny (n.) An honest fellow.

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..

Pickpenny :: Pickpenny (n.) A miser; also, a sharper..

Brick :: Brick (n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread)..

Pens :: Pens (n.) pl. of Penny.

Threepence :: Threepence (n.) A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.

Pennywort :: Pennywort (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets..

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..

Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.

Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..

Water Pennywort :: Water pennywort () Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.

Hap''penny :: Hap'penny (n.) A half-penny.

Pennyweight :: Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name..

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Penny :: Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..

Twelvepenny :: Twelvepenny (a.) Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

Fippenny Bit :: Fippenny bit () The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States..

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

Tenpenny :: Tenpenny (a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n..

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