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See Peter pence, under Peter.
PENCE
n.
A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.
n.
A pencel.
a.
Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
a.
Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
n.
A gold coin of Rome, worth 64 shillings 11 pence sterling, or about $ 15.70.
pl.
of Penny
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.
n.
An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
n.
A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
n.
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
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pl. of Penny. See Penny.
n.
A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
v. t.
One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
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.
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A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel.
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A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
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See Pencel.
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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.
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An East Indian coin of the value of 12/ pence sterling, or about 25 cents.
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