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Cent

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

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Coin 76% connected

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

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Rupee 76% connected

A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

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Copper 76% connected

A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol C…

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Birr 70% connected

To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.

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Bob 70% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

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Dollar 70% connected

A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.

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Florin 70% connected

A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries…

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Guilder 70% connected

A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

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Gulden 70% connected

See Guilder.

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Rand 70% connected

A border; edge; margin.

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Rupee 70% connected

A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

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Shilling 70% connected

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 ab…

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Synonym 2

Centime 92% connected

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

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Penny 92% connected

Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pou…

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