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A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.…

A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

A bird of the genus Merops, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

See Piaster.

same whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster, formerly divided into eight reals. -- To give a piece of one's mind to, to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece…

In Turkey, the sum of 500 piasters.