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a. (Anat.) (a) Pertaining to the epencephalon. (b) Situated on or over the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon, near + &unr_; brain. ] (Anat.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. an English coin worth half a penny; -- no longer minted.
Syn. -- halfpenny, ha'penny. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561). [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n., pl. of Penny. See Penny. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n.; pl. Sixpences An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despense, F. dépense, buffet, buttery, fr. OF. despendre to spend, distribute, L. dispendere, dispensum. See Dispense, Spend. ] 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. [ 1913 Webster ]

In . . . his spence, or “pantry” were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bluff Harry broke into the spence,
And turned the cowls adrift. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. despensier. See Spence, and cf. Dispenser. ] One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. [ Obs. ] Promptorium Parvulorum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the third Earl Spencer, who first wore it, or brought it into fashion. ] A short jacket worn by men and by women. Ld. Lutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [ 1802 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spencer mast, a small mast just abaft the foremast or mainmast, for hoisting the spencer. R. H. Dana, Jr. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ contraction from two pence. ] A former U.K. silver coin; a U.K. bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.
Syn. -- twopence [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents. [ 1913 Webster ]