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Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

True-penny :: True-penny (n.) An honest fellow.

Fippenny Bit :: Fippenny bit () The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States..

Lickpenny :: Lickpenny (n.) A devourer or absorber of money.

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

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

Averpenny :: Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Rap :: Rap (n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

Pickpenny :: Pickpenny (n.) A miser; also, a sharper..

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius)..

Get-penny :: Get-penny (n.) Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair.

Mail :: Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V..

"denarius :: Denarius (n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the penny of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as..

Pennyworth :: Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.

Quadrans :: Quadrans (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

Navelwort :: Navelwort (n.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort..

Pennyroyal :: Pennyroyal (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor..

Water Pennywort :: Water pennywort () Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.

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