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

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

Ora :: Ora (n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling..

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

Poundage :: Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more..

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

Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..

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..

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

Epencephalon :: Epencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen..

Spence :: Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat..

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

Testone :: Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents..

Rome Scot :: Rome scot () See Peter pence, under Peter..

Pensel :: Pensel (n.) A pencel.

Sharock :: Sharock (n.) An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents..

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

Twopenny :: Twopenny (a.) Of the value of twopence.

Blank :: Blank (n.) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence..

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

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