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单词 atchison
释义 atchison Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈætʃɪsən, ˈeɪtʃɪ-|
Also 7 acheson, -ison.
[Sc. pronunciation of Atkinson, name of the assay-master of the Edinburgh Mint in the beginning of James VI's reign. (Jamieson.)]
A copper coin, coated with silver, coined in the reign of James VI, equal in value to eight pennies Scots or two-thirds of an English penny.
1605R. Armin Foole upon F. (1880) 14 A sallet of an atchison price, which in our money was three farthings.1657S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 68 Achisons, Babees and Placks.1773Ruddiman Introd. Anderson's Diplom. 137 (Jam.) The first whitish colour, which discovers itself in these atchisons, seems to indicate that they are mixed with a little silver, or laid over with that metal.
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