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Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..

Third-penny :: Third-penny (n.) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl..

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

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A half-penny.

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

Bawbee :: Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Twelvepenny :: Twelvepenny (a.) Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

Penny :: Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

Penny :: Penny (a.) Worth or costing one penny.

Farthing :: Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency..

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)..

Tommy :: Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance..

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

Penny :: Penny (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny..

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

Rosary :: Rosary (n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny..

Pennyweight :: Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name..

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

Bodle :: Bodle (n.) A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.

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