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Sesterce :: Sesterce (n.) 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..

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]..

Marc :: Marc (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence..

Pencel :: Pencel (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel..

Pence :: Pence (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.

Groat :: Groat (n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence..

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

Sixpence :: Sixpence (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents..

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

Scudo :: Scudo (n.) A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70..

Tester :: Tester (n.) 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..

Pennoncelle :: Pennoncelle (n.) See Pencel.

Sixpenny :: Sixpenny (a.) Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf..

Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat..

Teston :: Teston (n.) A tester; a sixpence.

Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence..

Twelvepence :: Twelvepence (n.) A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents..

Mill-sixpence :: Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

Nicker :: Nicker (v. t.) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

Epencephalic :: Epencephalic (a.) Pertaining to the epencephalon.

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