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

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

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..

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

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

Spencer :: Spencer (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.

Pause :: Pause (n.) Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.

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

Bender :: Bender (n.) A sixpence.

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

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

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

Ninepences :: Ninepences (pl. ) of Ninepenc.

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

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..

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

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

Dispence :: Dispence (v. i. & n.) See Dispense.

Pennoncelle :: Pennoncelle (n.) See Pencel.

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

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