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Penny :: Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

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

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..

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

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

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (n.) Some worthless catchpenny thing.

Rap :: Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Averpenny :: Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Threepenny :: Threepenny (a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean..

Piece :: Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings..

Earles Penny :: Earles penny () Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.

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

Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

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..

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny..

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

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) See Denarius.

Navelwort :: Navelwort (n.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort..

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