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See Peter pence, under Peter.
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a.
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
v. t.
One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
n.
An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
n.
A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel.
n.
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
n.
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
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A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.
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of Penny
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A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
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A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
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A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
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See Pencel.
n.
A pencel.
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A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
a.
Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
n.
A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
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A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.
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An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents.
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An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
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