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

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

rope; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

th roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. (Bot.) See under March.

A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.

Earnest money. Same as Arles penny. [Obs.]

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

Something which gets or gains money; a successful affair. [Colloq.] Chapman.

A half-penny.

An English coin of the value of half a penny; also, the value of half a penny.

A devourer or absorber of money. "Law is a lickpenny." Sir W. Scott.

A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

A miserly person.

See Peter pence, under Peter.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

Of the value of, or costing, sixpence; as, a sixpenny loaf.

Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.