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pl. of Penny. See Penny.

A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; - - called also pennoncel. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

See Dispense. [Obs.]

Pertaining to the epencephalon.

The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

visions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. Chiefly Brit. dial. [MW10] In . . . his spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson.

One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. [Obs.] Promptorium Parvulorum.

A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]

A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.

A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory; as, adminicular evidence. H. Spencer.

cts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

piration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

sociable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.