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Penny

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

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Coin 76% connected

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

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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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Pound 70% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Punt 70% connected

To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.

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Quid 70% connected

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

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Cent 92% connected

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

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Centime 92% connected

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

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