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pennies

pl. (非正式)copper便士, (美)分, 分币

Penny \Pen*ny\, n.; pl. {Pennies}or {Pence}. Pennies denotes the
number of coins; pence the amount of pennies in value. [OE.
peni, AS. penig, pening, pending; akin to D. penning, OHG.
pfenning, pfenting, G. pfennig, Icel. penningr; of uncertain
origin.]
1. An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the
twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and
equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually
indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of
denarius).

Note: ``The chief Anglo-Saxon coin, and for a long period the
only one, corresponded to the denarius of the Continent
. . . [and was] called penny, denarius, or denier.''
--R. S. Poole. The ancient silver penny was worth about
three pence sterling (see {Pennyweight}). The old
Scotch penny was only one twelfth the value of the
English coin. In the United States the word penny is
popularly used for cent.

2. Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver. --Shak.

3. Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.

What penny hath Rome borne,
What men provided, what munition sent? --Shak.

4. (Script.) See {Denarius}.

{Penny cress} (Bot.), an annual herb of the Mustard family,
having round, flat pods like silver pennies ({Thlaspi
arvense}). --Dr. Prior.

{Penny dog} (Zo["o]l.), a kind of shark found on the South
coast of Britain: the tope.

{Penny father}, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.]
--Robinson (More's Utopia).

{Penny grass} (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.]

{Penny post}, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a
mail carrier.

{Penny wise}, wise or prudent only in small matters; saving
small sums while losing larger; -- used chiefly in the
phrase, penny wise and pound foolish.

At Port Mobil and at the high-volume Gulf stations along the Maine Turnpike, where prices were a few pennies lower, motorists had no difficulty seizing on a villain.
And, when vending machines are involved, an increase in a 50-cent candy bar must be at a minimum of 10 percent because the machine declines to count mere pennies.
Major dailies are perplexed about how pennies will be collected in street vending boxes and newsstands.
Stores often keep a cup of pennies at the cash register so customers don't have to dig to the bottoms of their purses and pockets for lint-covered coins.
Before the former prime minister came along, public sector managers could not count pennies.
By the time he was 15 he had killed two men in New York City subway robberies, shooting one in the face after he put up his hands in surrender and another in the head when he had only pennies.
And, yes, it is worth calling the manager and complaining over pennies.
While the potential magnitude of the lawsuits is significant, "on the other hand Exxon may end up paying pennies on the dollar," he said.
But this is a production designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli and paid for by Sybil Harrington, who has no need to count her pennies, unlike Violetta, down to 20 louis at the opera's end.
Teacher Les Greenblatt organized the penny drive originally as a class project to see if the school's students could raise a million pennies.
While crude oil prices have plunged since October, the sign at Fletcher's Amoco last week still read $1.37 a gallon for unleaded gasoline, only a couple of pennies less than when oil prices peaked nearly two months ago.
But with prices like that, Observer is reminded of the old adage that if you look after the pennies, the pounds take care of themselves.
Still, pennies add up, even for small investors.
Most of the posted increases are pennies a pound and range from 7% to 12%.
It is happy to give it away or sell it for a few pennies a pound.
"They very quietly introduced this thing and nobody much knew there was a change," McDowell said. "There was one helluva a lot of testing before they switched over." The old pennies were 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc.
The U.S. Mint churns out billions of pennies each year, and the almanac suggests that as many as 200 billion of the coins may be squirreled away in vaults, baby banks, cookie jars and shoe boxes.
In addition, the management and staff of USA Today in Arlington were allowed to spend large sums of money, while Gannett's other daily newspapers were forced to pinch pennies.
The figure is based on 10 billion cash transactions yearly and a cashier wasting two seconds per transaction fishing for pennies.
The highlights: faded red crepe paper, two pennies and the names of women in a group that donated $10 to the building fund.
"The owners were saving pennies and we were losing thousands (of dollars).
Maine's schoolchildren raised more than $34,000 for victims of Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake, and they did it the hard way _ collecting more than nine tons of pennies.
Besides, vending machines don't take pennies anyway so criminals aren't much interested, McDowell said.
The pennies came in plastic water jugs wrapped in Christmas paper and were presented to the 70-year-old priest on Wednesday.
A former bank employee and postal worker who pinched pennies by living in YMCAs and spending as little as $6 a day on food died with $249,746 in eight banks across the country and no apparent heirs.
But pennies make it easy to donate, even for children, he said.
The Transit Authority, which operates the subways, is getting so many pennies that it is now the largest depositor of pennies with the Federal Reserve, The New York Times reported Sunday.
The Transit Authority, which operates the subways, is getting so many pennies that it is now the largest depositor of pennies with the Federal Reserve, The New York Times reported Sunday.
After paying a couple thousand pennies for admission, a vacationer deserves a break.
"I've spent $350 here and I'm not done yet," she said. "Christmas is a time I do like to splurge." There's no scrimping or pinching pennies this year.

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