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1.
hal-penī
n.
Additional spellings:
halpeni
45 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) An English coin [made of silver from the time of Edw.I], worth half a penny, a halfpenny; (b) a halfpenny given in charity;
Goddes hal-peni
; (c) a coin of Biblical times; a small foreign coin…
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thō
pron.(1)
19 quotations in 3 senses
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As anaph. or dem. pron., pointing to a previously mentioned thing, used as direct obj.: that one, that, it.
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