Crossword clues for ninepence
ninepence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ninepence \Nine"pence\, n.; pl. Ninepences.
An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete British English) A former British silver coin, worth nine old penny. 2 (context obsolete British English) Nine old pennies. 3 (context obsolete New England English) A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents.
WordNet
n. a coin worth nine pennies
Usage examples of "ninepence".
You paid ninepence for a sixpenny publication, and fifteen-pence for a shilling one, and a half-crown, and sometimes three shillings, for a two-shilling volume.
Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.
At the time James Isherwood was holding substantial sums of money for both George and Ringo so he decided to buy 25,000 shares for each of them at the original issue price of seven shillings and ninepence.
Harry Price, who had always wanted to look like a cavalry officer, bought the spurs himself for ninepence.
An acclimatised Britisher, he had seen that summer eve from the footplate of an engine cab of the Loop line railway company while the rain refrained from falling glimpses, as it were, through the windows of loveful households in Dublin city and urban district of scenes truly rural of happiness of the better land with Dockrell's wallpaper at one and ninepence a dozen, innocent Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .
But what stand I upon these things, who have rather to complain of the injury offered by some of our neighbours of the laity, which daily endeavour to bring us also within the compass of their fifteens or taxes for their own ease, whereas the tax of the whole realm, which is commonly greater in the champagne than woodland soil, amounteth only to 37,930 pounds ninepence half-penny, is a burden easy enough to be borne upon so many shoulders, without the help of the clergy, whose tenths and subsidies make up commonly a double, if not treble sum unto their aforesaid payments?
He sorted out his change and put ninepence in his ticket pocket for a tip.