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Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.

the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

Of the value of twopence.

A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities. J. Spence. An article, or piece, of virtu, an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virtù. Goldsmith.…

The quality or condition of being viviparous. H. Spencer.

ewith to answer him. Ps. cxix. 42. The wherewith to meet excessive loss by radiation. H. Spencer.

in silver; -- opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. [Prov. Eng.] -- White rhinoceros. (Zoöl.) (a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Indicus). See Rhinoceros. (b…

An animal which is the sole product of a single egg; -- opposed to zooid. H. Spencer.