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slovo definícia pence (encz) pence,pence n: Zdeněk Brož pence (czen) pence,pencen: Zdeněk Brož pence (czen) pence,penniesn: Zdeněk Brož pence (czen) pence,pennyn: Zdeněk Brož Pence (gcide) Pence \Pence\, n., pl. of Penny. See Penny. [1913 Webster] Pence (gcide) Penny \Pen*ny\, n.; pl. Penniesor Pence (p[e^]ns). 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.] 1. A former English coin, originally of copper, then 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). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny. [1913 Webster] What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Script.) See Denarius. [1913 Webster] Penny cress (Bot.), an annual herb of the Mustard family, having round, flat pods like silver pennies ({Thlaspi arvense}). Also spelled pennycress. --Dr. Prior. Penny dog (Zool.), a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope. Penny pincher, Penny father, a penurious person; a miser; a niggard. The latter phrase is now obsolete. --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; penny-wise; -- used chiefly in the phrase, penny wise and pound foolish. [1913 Webster]

podobné slovo definícia eightpence (encz) eightpence, n: fivepence (encz) fivepence, n: fourpence (encz) fourpence,čtyři pence Zdeněk Brož halfpence (encz) halfpence,půlpence n: Zdeněk Brož ninepence (encz) ninepence,druh mince Zdeněk Brož pence (encz) pence,pence n: Zdeněk Brož sevenpence (encz) sevenpence, sixpence (encz) sixpence,šest pencí adj: Zdeněk Brožsixpence,šestipence n: Zdeněk Brož spencer (encz) Spencer,Spencer n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad spencerian (encz) Spencerian, tenpence (encz) tenpence, n: threepence (encz) threepence,tři pence Zdeněk Brožthreepence,třípence n: Zdeněk Brož tuppence (encz) tuppence,dvě pence Zdeněk Brož twopence (encz) twopence,dvojpence n: Zdeněk Brožtwopence,dvoupence n: Zdeněk Brož dvojpence (czen) dvojpence,twopencen: Zdeněk Brož dvoupence (czen) dvoupence,twopencen: Zdeněk Brož dvě pence (czen) dvě pence,tuppence Zdeněk Brož pence (czen) pence,pencen: Zdeněk Brožpence,penniesn: Zdeněk Brožpence,pennyn: Zdeněk Brož půlpence (czen) půlpence,bawbee Zdeněk Brožpůlpence,halfpencen: Zdeněk Brožpůlpence,halfpennyn: Zdeněk Brož spencer (czen) Spencer,Spencern: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA, mužské křestní jméno Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad tři pence (czen) tři pence,threepence Zdeněk Brož třípence (czen) třípence,threepencen: Zdeněk Brož čtyři pence (czen) čtyři pence,fourpence Zdeněk Brož šestipence (czen) šestipence,sixpencen: Zdeněk Brož Dispence (gcide) Dispence \Dis*pence"\, v. i. & n. See Dispense. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Epencephalic (gcide) Epencephalic \Ep`en*ce*phal"ic\, a. (Anat.) (a) Pertaining to the epencephalon. (b) Situated on or over the brain. [1913 Webster] Epencephalon (gcide) Epencephalon \Ep`en*ceph"a*lon\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon, near + ? brain.] (Anat.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen. [1913 Webster] Fourpence (gcide) Fourpence \Four"pence\, n. 1. A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat. [1913 Webster] 2. A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents. [1913 Webster] halfpence (gcide) halfpence \half"pence\ (h[=a]"p[e^]ns), n. an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted. Syn: halfpenny, ha'penny. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] halfpennyhalfpenny \half"pen*ny\, half-penny \half"-pen*ny\(h[=a]"p[e^]n*n[y^] or h[aum]f"-; 277), n.;pl. Half-pence (-pens) or Half-pennies(-p[e^]n*n[i^]z). An English coin of the value of half a penny, no longer minted; also, the value of half a penny. Syn: ha'penny. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Half-pence (gcide) halfpence \half"pence\ (h[=a]"p[e^]ns), n. an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted. Syn: halfpenny, ha'penny. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] halfpennyhalfpenny \half"pen*ny\, half-penny \half"-pen*ny\(h[=a]"p[e^]n*n[y^] or h[aum]f"-; 277), n.;pl. Half-pence (-pens) or Half-pennies(-p[e^]n*n[i^]z). An English coin of the value of half a penny, no longer minted; also, the value of half a penny. Syn: ha'penny. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] Head pence (gcide) Head \Head\ (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he['a]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h["o]fu[eth], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. Chief, Cadet, Capital), and its origin is unknown.] 1. The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the chief sensory organs; poll; cephalon. [1913 Webster] 2. The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler. [1913 Webster] 3. The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers the head. [1913 Webster] 4. The most prominent or important member of any organized body; the chief; the leader; as, the head of a college, a school, a church, a state, and the like. "Their princes and heads." --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster] The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] Your head I him appoint. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers. [1913 Webster] An army of fourscore thousand troops, with the duke of Marlborough at the head of them. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. Each one among many; an individual; -- often used in a plural sense; as, a thousand head of cattle. [1913 Webster] It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. --Graunt. [1913 Webster] 7. The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will. [1913 Webster] Men who had lost both head and heart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 8. The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea. [1913 Webster] 9. A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 10. A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon. [1913 Webster] 11. Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height. [1913 Webster] Ere foul sin, gathering head, shall break into corruption. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The indisposition which has long hung upon me, is at last grown to such a head, that it must quickly make an end of me or of itself. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 12. Power; armed force. [1913 Webster] My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 13. A headdress; a covering of the head; as, a laced head; a head of hair. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 14. An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals. [1913 Webster] 15. (Bot.) (a) A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum. (b) A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant. [1913 Webster] 16. The antlers of a deer. [1913 Webster] 17. A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 18. pl. Tiles laid at the eaves of a house. --Knight. [1913 Webster] Note: Head is often used adjectively or in self-explaining combinations; as, head gear or headgear, head rest. Cf. Head, a. [1913 Webster] A buck of the first head, a male fallow deer in its fifth year, when it attains its complete set of antlers. --Shak. By the head. (Naut.) See under By. Elevator head, Feed head, etc. See under Elevator, Feed, etc. From head to foot, through the whole length of a man; completely; throughout. "Arm me, audacity, from head to foot." --Shak. Head and ears, with the whole person; deeply; completely; as, he was head and ears in debt or in trouble. [Colloq.] Head fast. (Naut.) See 5th Fast. Head kidney (Anat.), the most anterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the pronephros. Head money, a capitation tax; a poll tax. --Milton. Head pence, a poll tax. [Obs.] Head sea, a sea that meets the head of a vessel or rolls against her course. Head and shoulders. (a) By force; violently; as, to drag one, head and shoulders. "They bring in every figure of speech, head and shoulders." --Felton. (b) By the height of the head and shoulders; hence, by a great degree or space; by far; much; as, he is head and shoulders above them. Heads or tails or Head or tail, this side or that side; this thing or that; -- a phrase used in throwing a coin to decide a choice, question, or stake, head being the side of the coin bearing the effigy or principal figure (or, in case there is no head or face on either side, that side which has the date on it), and tail the other side. Neither head nor tail, neither beginning nor end; neither this thing nor that; nothing distinct or definite; -- a phrase used in speaking of what is indefinite or confused; as, they made neither head nor tail of the matter. [Colloq.] Head wind, a wind that blows in a direction opposite the vessel's course. off the top of my head, from quick recollection, or as an approximation; without research or calculation; -- a phrase used when giving quick and approximate answers to questions, to indicate that a response is not necessarily accurate. Out of one's own head, according to one's own idea; without advice or co["o]peration of another. Over the head of, beyond the comprehension of. --M. Arnold. to go over the head of (a person), to appeal to a person superior to (a person) in line of command. To be out of one's head, to be temporarily insane. To come or draw to a head. See under Come, Draw. To give (one) the head, or To give head, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. "He gave his able horse the head." --Shak. "He has so long given his unruly passions their head." --South. To his head, before his face. "An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head." --Jer. Taylor. To lay heads together, to consult; to conspire. To lose one's head, to lose presence of mind. To make head, or To make head against, to resist with success; to advance. To show one's head, to appear. --Shak. To turn head, to turn the face or front. "The ravishers turn head, the fight renews." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Mill-sixpence (gcide) Mill-sixpence \Mill"-sixpence\, n. A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561). [1913 Webster] Ninepence (gcide) Ninepence \Nine"pence\, n.; pl. Ninepences. 1. An old English silver coin, worth nine pence. [1913 Webster] 2. A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents. [1913 Webster] Ninepences (gcide) Ninepence \Nine"pence\, n.; pl. Ninepences. 1. An old English silver coin, worth nine pence. [1913 Webster] 2. A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents. [1913 Webster] Pencel (gcide) Pencel \Pen"cel\, n. [See Pennoncel.] A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Peter pence (gcide) Peter \Pe"ter\ (p[=e]"t[~e]r), prop. n. A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the twelve apostles of Christ. [1913 Webster] Peter boat, a fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, formerly paid by the English people to the pope, being a penny for every house, payable on Lammas or St. Peter's day; -- called also Rome scot, and hearth money. (b) In modern times, a voluntary contribution made by Roman Catholics to the private purse of the pope. Peter's fish (Zool.), a haddock; -- so called because the black spots, one on each side, behind the gills, are traditionally said to have been caused by the fingers of St. Peter, when he caught the fish to pay the tribute. The name is applied, also, to other fishes having similar spots. [1913 Webster]