A very small or the least amount of money, wealth, etc. Usually in negative contexts, as not a penny, never a penny, not worth a penny. Also figur…

A quantity or amount of money, gold, silver, etc.

Any small coin of low value; originally applied to a Flemish copper coin, but in English used mainly as a proverbial expression for an extremely…

A coin of trifling value; = mite, n.2 1a. Obsolete.

Taken as the type of a very small sum. Obsolete.

Taken as a type of a small coin or amount, with an expressed or implied negative.

(with allusion to Mark 12:42–44) a small amount of money donated by a poor widow; (hence) a small donation or contribution, esp. that made by a…

Used (like penny) as a type of a coin of small value, or of a small amount of money; occasionally a small quantity of anything, a ‘bit’. not a stiver…

an emphatic equivalent of farthing in depreciatory expressions.

Used in emphatic or rhetorical statements, where one wishes to be understood as deliberately reckoning or accounting for every item, however small…

Used as the type of a coin of the least possible value. Chiefly in negative contexts, as without a rap, not a rap, etc. Now rare.

With negative: A single coin of the smallest value.

= skilligalee, n. 2.

= stiver, n.

An imaginary coin of trivial value; frequently in brass razoo. Only in negative contexts. Cf. farthing, n. 2.