Word Meanings - TESTERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sixpence; a tester.

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• TESTERN
  A sixpence; a tester.
• TESTER
  têtière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. tête, fr. L. 1. A headpiece; a helmet. The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer. 2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the
• SIXPENCE
  An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• PROTESTER
  One who protests a bill of exchange, or note. (more info) 1. One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.
• DETESTER
  One who detes
• MILL-SIXPENCE
  A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled .
• ATTESTER; ATTESTOR
  One who attests.
• FRUITESTERE
  A fruiteress.