Crossword clues for denier
denier
- Thickness of hose from end - fire's beginning to go out
- Unit of weight of silk or nylon
- Unit of yarn fineness
- Defendant, often
- Threads' weight unit
- Peter, to Jesus
- Thread weight
- Silk measurement
- One may not believe the truth
- Measure of the fineness of silk or nylon
- Hose measure
- Fineness-of-silk measure
- Naysayer
- Atheist, to a believer
- Unit of fineness for nylon yarn
- Old French coin
- Thread weight for nylons
- Unit of fineness for silk
- Measure of thread fineness
- Measurement of fineness in silk, nylon etc
- Measure of silk fineness
- One who won't admit stocking this fine unit?
- St Peter maybe the measure of fineness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denier \De*ni"er\, n. One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ. [1913 Webster] ||
Denier \De*nier"\, n. [F. denier, fr. L. denarius a Roman silver coin orig. equiv. to ten asses, later, a copper, fr. deni ten by ten, fr. the root of decem ten; akin to E. ten. See Ten, and cf. Denary, Dinar.] A small copper coin of insignificant value.
My dukedom to a beggarly denier.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
French coin, early 15c., from Old French dener, a small coin of slight value, roughly equivalent to the English penny, in use in France from the time of Charlemagne to early modern times, from Latin denarium, from denarius, name of a Roman coin (source also of Spanish dinero; see denarius).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context now historical English) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou. 2 A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Etymology 2
n. Person who deny#Verb something.
WordNet
n. a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon; "with an evening dress one wears 10 denier stockings"
any of various former European coins of different denominations
one who denies
Wikipedia
Denier may refer to:
- the French form of denarius (penny)
- French denier (penny), a type of medieval coin
- Denier (unit), a unit of linear mass density of fibers
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Denier, also Denyer, a French and English surname (probably a metonymic occupational name for a moneyer or minter, hence also a (rare) given name
- Lydie Denier, French actress
- C. Denier Warren, American TV and film actor
- the agent noun of "deny", see Denial (disambiguation)
- Denialism
- The Deniers, a 2008 book by Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon
- Denier, Pas-de-Calais, France
Usage examples of "denier".
Can the lives of such men be compared, seeing that the one is sad and gloomy--as it is natural that a denier of his debts and a defrauder should be, a man who does not give his parents, his nurses, or his teachers the honour which is their due--while the other is joyous, cheerful, on the watch for an opportunity of proving his gratitude, and gaining much pleasure from this frame of mind itself?
Jehan, que notre fief de Tirechappe ne rapporte, en mettant en bloc le cens et les rentes des vingt-une maisons, que trente-neuf livres onze sous six deniers parisis.
All in all, the deniers that day and that weekend seemed the most middling of Middle Americans.
I and the rest of the world believe that the Jews who went left went to cyanide chambers, but the deniers believe they went to other parts of Auschwitz or, by train, to other concentration camps.
UFO fanatics, whose theories are much less malignant but whose legions are much more numerous than the dozen dozen deniers at that international conference, their first in six slow-moving years.
Loud and long they applauded, and a number of German deniers stood up.
I am ready to demonstrate this by any test that the deniers of this may require, and I am fortified in my position by unsolicited letters from over 3,000 surviving prisoners, warmly indorsing the account as thoroughly accurate in every respect.
Our products were being sold all over Europe, and the local currency had become a hodgepodge of pennies, deniers, pfennigs, and what have you, minted in dozens of different places.
Louis XI, crois-tu que ce soit pour de pareils oiseaux que nous faisons faire des cages de trois cent soixante-sept livres huit sols trois deniers?
Don Juan, as a denier of all univocality, tries desperately to remain on the border of sexual ambiguity without which eroticism can barely survive.
The sulky dogs would rather have three twists of a rack, or the thumbikins for an hour, than pay out a denier for their own feudal father and liege lord.
There are ducats and ecus, florins and agnos, deniers and genoins, pounds and moutons.
The deniers and non-talkers believe they are solving the problem when actually they may be making it worse.
It would open a trapdoor under the deniers, and remove the only justification, however flimsy, for blocking the evacuation project.
The blood mounted to the temples of Debray, who held a million in his pocket-book, and unimaginative as he was he could not help reflecting that the same house had contained two women, one of whom, justly dishonored, had left it poor with 1,500,000 francs under her cloak, while the other, unjustly stricken, but sublime in her misfortune, was yet rich with a few deniers.