Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A silver coin of the United States, of the value of 5 cents. In 1866 it was replaced in coinage by a five-cent piece of copper and nickel, popularly called a nickel.
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Examples
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But, his thought was that a new five cent coin could be a temporary measure to replace the disliked fractional notes, perhaps marking time until the silver half-dime again returned to general circulation.
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But, his thought was that a new five cent coin could be a temporary measure to replace the disliked fractional notes, perhaps marking time until the silver half-dime again returned to general circulation.
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According to Webster, it is a half-dime or something trivial, it could be a coin or something trivial.
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All went well until one player ripped a half-dime sized chunk of skin off his big toe.
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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"Oh, you're worse than a half-dime novel," cried Ned with a laugh.
Frank Roscoe's Secret Or, the Darewell Chums in the Woods Allen Chapman
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A Joey is the flash term for a four-penny piece, or eight cents of our money, and is so called because these silver coins, somewhat larger than a half-dime, are said to owe their origin to
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I myself took several violent colds from having the glass next my skin during severe nights; but that was nothing so bad as the case of Little Briggs, who from lack of the half-dime, often came down to prayers with a stripe of yesterday's pencil black on one side of his nose, and a shaving of soap, which, in the frenzy of despair he had gouged out of his stony cake, on the other.
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At Coney, a dime will buy almost anything except what a half-dime will buy.
From Place to Place 1910
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Beadle's pocket-form publications were changed into the large folio page "Beadle's Dime Library" in 1876, and the name Beadle and Adams still figures on dime and half-dime publications issued by N.J. Ivers and Company, New York.
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By the close of the seventies several sorts of "dime," "half-dime," and "nickel" novels appeared, the Indian eventually dropping out as the reservation corraled him, and the cowboy, the detective, and the train robber taking his place.
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