(n.) A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
(n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized.
(n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
(4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
(5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
(7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
(8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
(9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
(10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
(11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
(12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
(13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
(14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
(15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
(16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
(17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
(18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
(19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
(20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.
Stilling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Still
(n.) A stillion.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(5) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(6) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(7) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
(8) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(9) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(10) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(13) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(15) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(16) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(17) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(18) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(19) The data shows a dissociation between ferritin synthesis, cellular accumulation and secretion for which the mechanisms have still to be elucidated.
(20) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.