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Rogue and villain was Cockney rhyming slang for shilling.
A silver (outdated Australian currency ) coin with a value of twelve pennies. Roughly the size of a United States twenty five cent coin. See also Bob
Shirt and collar was old London Cockney rhyming slang for two shillings and six pence (a dollar).
1 Shilling (5 pence)
Dollar (Five Shillings)
Bob (Shilling)
a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). From Old High German 'skilling'. Similar words for coins and meanings are found all over Europe. The original derivation was either from Proto-Germanic 'skell' meaning to sound or ring, or Indo-European 'skell' split or divide. Some think the root might be from Proto-Germanic 'skeld', meaning shield.
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Shilling tabernacle was slang for a Baptist or Methodist tea−meeting where refreshments were available for a shilling.
Shillings and pence is old London Cockney rhyming slang for common sense.
n pre-decimalisation U.K. unit of currency - worth a twentieth of a pound, which was then twelve pence.
it means chilling and relaxing
Spilling is Black−American slang for talking
 (Duce Hog) 2 shillings
Nine shillings was old slang for audacity, calm, nonchalance.
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a.
Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.
n.
A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
conj.
If; though. See An, conj.
a. & adv.
Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
n.
A money od account in Sweden, Norwey, Denmark, and North Germany, and also a coin. It had various values, from three fourths of a cent in Norway to more than two cents in Lubeck.
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A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth.
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Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
n.
A shilling.
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A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
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In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
n. pl.
See Swill, n., 1.
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The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
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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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A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.
v. t.
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
a.
Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
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A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
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Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
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Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
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