Crossword clues for pence
pence
- Change from a pound
- British coin additive?
- What the p means in a British 50p coin
- VP Mike
- US vice president elected in 2016
- UK cents
- U.K. cents
- Trump's vice president
- Trump's veep
- Trump's second
- The 100 in a pound
- The "D." in L.S.D
- Subject of the 2018 biography "The Shadow President"
- Starving English band's pay?
- Some British coins
- Some British change
- Small change in Liverpool
- Sixty to a crown
- Six___ None the Richer
- Shilling fractions
- Shilling components
- Pound's 100, in England
- Pound hundredths
- Pound components
- Pound bits
- Pieces of a pound
- Piece of sterling
- P, as in Dundee
- P as in Portsmouth or Plymouth
- Outdated British coins
- Name on a 2016 winning ticket
- Money in the U.K
- London change
- Hundredths, of a sort
- How change may come to the British
- Hearth money, to Peter
- Fractions of a British pound
- English money
- English change
- Debater last October
- Coppers in London
- Colchester coins
- Coins, in Devon
- Coins, in Cornwall
- Coins with the Royal Shield on them
- Coins Oliver begged for
- Coins of Great Britain
- Coins in old Cambridge
- Coins in Coventry
- Coins for Sherlock
- Cockney's coins
- Chelsea currency
- Change, in London
- Change of a pound
- Change in London
- Change for a shilling
- Change for a pound
- Canterbury coppers
- Brits' coins
- British change
- Brit's pocket change
- Brit's change
- At bottom of tip jar in England
- 48th U.S. VP
- 2016 Republican vice presidential candidate
- Pound parts
- Change at Oxford
- British cents
- P., as in Plymouth
- The "p" of 6p
- There are five in a shilling
- Parts of British pounds
- English coppers
- English tips?
- What "p" may stand for
- British coppers
- London coppers
- Change around the Thames
- Small coins for 29-Downs
- Parts of pounds
- British coins
- 48th vice president
- 2016 running mate
- Coppers for Copperfield
- A pound has 100
- The "d" in l.s.d.
- Shilling parts
- Peter's ___ (old tax)
- Pound into pieces?
- What "d" stands for
- D, in England
- Londoner's small change
- Coin in Cardiff
- Pounds' companions
- Part of L.S.D.
- Money in the U.K.
- Manchester money
- 100 make a pound
- London money
- British money, once
- A vice president makes very little money
- Copper coins
- Change pound before church
- Small coins
- Number one across North Carolina and number two in Washington
- President's vice is money
- Trump's vice, money
- UK's ready support for Trump?
- Change for Churchill
- Pound fractions
- Pound divisions
- English coins
- Pound portion
- Biden's successor as V.P
- Shilling's five
- Canterbury coins
- Shilling change
- Pound portions
- Pound pieces
- Part of L.S.D
- Coppers in Coventry
- Coins of the realm
- Coins for Churchill
- 1/100th of a pound
- Vice president after Biden
- The "d" in l.s.d
- Parts of a pound
- Overseas coppers
- Coins in Kent
- Chelsea change
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penny \Pen*ny\, n.; pl. Penniesor Pence. Pennies denotes the number of coins; pence the amount of pennies in value. [OE. peni, AS. penig, pening, pending; akin to D. penning, OHG. pfenning, pfenting, G. pfennig, Icel. penningr; of uncertain origin.]
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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).
Note: ``The chief Anglo-Saxon coin, and for a long period the only one, corresponded to the denarius of the Continent . . . [and was] called penny, denarius, or denier.''
--R. S. Poole. The ancient silver penny was worth about three pence sterling (see Pennyweight). The old Scotch penny was only one twelfth the value of the English coin. In the United States the word penny is popularly used for cent. Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
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Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent?
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(Script.) See Denarius.
Penny cress (Bot.), an annual herb of the Mustard family, having round, flat pods like silver pennies ( Thlaspi arvense).
--Dr. Prior.Penny dog (Zo["o]l.), a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope.
Penny father, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.]
--Robinson (More's Utopia).Penny grass (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.]
Penny post, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier.
Penny wise, wise or prudent only in small matters; saving small sums while losing larger; -- used chiefly in the phrase, penny wise and pound foolish.
Pence \Pence\, n., pl. of Penny. See Penny.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., contraction of penies, collective plural of penny. Spelling with -ce reflects the voiceless pronunciation.
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) (penny nodot=1 English) (the sub-unit of the pound sterling).
WordNet
See penny
Wikipedia
Pence is a plural of penny, a coin or unit of currency.
Pence may also refer to:
Usage examples of "pence".
After some argument, haggling, and suggestions of violence, he produced bow, quiver, and arrows for eight pence.
In the meane season this minion lover cast his wife on the bottome of the tub and had his pleasure with her over his head, and as he was in the middest of his pastime, hee turned his head on this side and that side, finding fault with this and with that, till as they had both ended their businesse, when as he delivered seaven pence for the tub, and caused the good man himselfe to carry it on his backe againe to his Inne.
He that his hand will put in this mittain, He shall have multiplying of his grain, When he hath sowen, be it wheat or oats, So that he offer pence, or elles groats.
And, chatter, hop, skip, they were sent, In a buzz of young company glee, Their natural music, swift shoal To the next easy shedders of pence.
April 24th, nurse was payd for Rowland all her wagis tyll Monday the 22 of this month, 16 pence a weke: she had all her candell and sope before.
The mancus was equated with thirty pence, probably from the time of its introduction.
In fact, I once computed that it would be possible to spend four and a half years visiting them all without spending a pence, without overstaying a welcome, and without imposing on the same relative twice.
The next day I was carryed to the market to be sold, and my price was set at seaven pence more then Philebus gave for me.
The grace of God is like a bullion mass of purest gold, and then Jesus Christ is the great ingot of that gold, and then Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and Hosea, and Paul, and Peter, and John are the inspired artists who have commission to take both bullion and ingot, and out of them to cut, and beat, and smelt, and shape, and stamp, and superscribe the promises, and then to issue the promises to pass current in the market of salvation like so many shekels, and pounds, and pence, and farthings, and mites, as the case may be.
Once, the records show, Adams was fined three shillings, nine pence for absence from college longer than the time allowed for vacation or by permission.
Michaelmas, some barley and two hens at Martinmas, either a lamb or two pence at Easter, and a pig for the right to keep his herd in the forest, where they lived on the acorns and beechmast.
As I was getting near the Ponte del Paglia I saw the same masked woman attentively looking at some wonderful monster shewn for a few pence.
There was a poore Gardener amongst the rest, which bought me for the summe of fifty pence, which seemed to him a great price, but he thought to gayne it againe by the continuall travell of my body.
Diana was curled up in a chair, reading, taking no notice at all of Deirdre, got up as fine as five pence and pacing the drawing room floor in a splendid temper.
Larkin, Esq., The Lodge, Gylingden, announcing the fact that he had overdrawn his account certain pounds, shillings, and pence, and inviting him forthwith to restore the balance.