Crossword-Solution: SHILLING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shilling | n. | A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency. |
| Shilling | n. | In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized. |
| Shilling | n. | The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “SHILLING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A bob, in London. | 1 answer |
| A fifth of a crown, once | 1 answer |
| Britisher's pocket money | 1 answer |
| Fraction of a pound, once | 1 answer |
| KENYAN monetary unit | 1 answer |
| Twelve pence, in Soho | 1 answer |
| CHANNEL Islands currency | 3 answers |
| Part of a pound | 6 answers |
| former British coin | 6 answers |
| Old British coin | 8 answers |
| BRITISH Pound | 11 answers |
| AN ENGLISH COIN WORTH ONE TWENTIETH OF A POUND | 11 answers |
| ENGLISH currency | 16 answers |
| BRITISH coin | 27 answers |
| English coin | 30 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SHILLING (5)
And so she’s nailed up in parish boards after all, and nobody to pay the bell shilling and the grave half-crown.” “The parish pays the grave half-crown, but not the bell shilling, because the bell’s a luxery: but ’a can hardly do without the grave, poor body.
They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle’s very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.
The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.
But there was something pitifully small in this old Pyncheon’s mode of setting about his commercial operations; it was whispered, that, with his own hands, all beruffled as they were, he used to give change for a shilling, and would turn a half-penny twice over, to make sure that it was a good one.
Death is Nature’s remedy for all things, and why not Legislation’s? Accordingly, the forger was put to Death; the utterer of a bad note was put to Death; the unlawful opener of a letter was put to Death; the purloiner of forty shillings and sixpence was put to Death; the holder of a horse at Tellson’s door, who made off with it, was put to Death; the coiner of a bad shilling was put to Death; the sounders of three-fourths of the notes in the whole gamut of Crime, were put to Death.
Quotes with SHILLING (3)
He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We never discussed sniffing! I cry foul!' Ian was outraged. 'I'm not giving you a shilling!' -'Give him a shilling! It's not his fault you smell like a horse's arse!
Lying bed, I listened to them, and I wonder now where in truth the real power rested that night: whether in the hands of men like Grimston, men like Edwards. Whether it slept with the King at Oxford in an ordinary bed, dormant, like a taint in the blood. Whether it rested on the waiting benches of the Commons, or whether it went home with their plain occupants, like a shilling in each of their pockets. I think the truth is that, rather than resting in any one of several place…
Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris — Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free entertainment that drew huge crowds. London, the historian Fernand Braudel tells us, held public executions eight times a year at Tyburn, just north of Hyde Park. (The diplomat Samuel Pepys paid a shilling for a good view of a Tyburn hanging in 1664; watching the victim beg for mercy, he wrote, was a crowd o…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, S&S.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1954–2008).