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Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents..

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

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

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

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

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

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

Pence :: Pence (pl. ) of Penn.

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]..

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

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

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..

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

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..

Sixpences :: Sixpences (pl. ) of Sixpenc.

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..

Finding :: Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.

Pensel :: Pensel (n.) A pencel.

Epencephalic :: Epencephalic (a.) Situated on or over the brain.

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

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