[W/K] :: Cent

  Cent \Cent\, n. [F. cent hundred, L. centum. See Hundred.]
     1. A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts
        in a hundred.
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     2. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,
        formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
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     3. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so
        called because 100 points won the game. --Nares.
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  cent
       n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries
       2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
          [syn: penny, centime]

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "cent":
     C, C-note, Deutschmark, G, G-note, Mark, Reichsmark, a continental,
     a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, afghani, anna, bagatelle, baht,
     bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, buck, button,
     cartwheel, centavo, centime, century, conto, copper, curio, dime,
     dollar, dollar bill, dong, farce, farthing, feather, fifty cents,
     fig, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill,
     five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fleabite, florin,
     folderol, four bits, franc, fribble, frippery, frogskin, gaud,
     gewgaw, gimcrack, grand, guilder, gulden, hair, half G, half a C,
     half dollar, half grand, halfpenny, hill of beans,
     hundred-dollar bill, iron man, jest, joke, kickshaw, kip,
     knickknack, knickknackery, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, mill,
     milreis, minikin, mockery, molehill, nickel, penny, peppercorn,
     peseta, picayune, pie, piece of eight, pin, pinch of snuff,
     pinprick, pistareen, pound, quarter, rand, rap, red cent, rial,
     row of pins, ruble, rupee, rush, sawbuck, shekel, shilling, shit,
     silver dollar, skin, smacker, snap, sneeshing, sol, sou, stiver,
     straw, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars,
     thousand-dollar bill, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence,
     twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two cents,
     two-dollar bill, two-spot, twopence, whim-wham, won, yard, yen
  
  

  CENT, money. A copper coin of the United States of the value of ten mills; 
  ten of them are equal to a dime, and one hundred, to one dollar. Each cent 
  is required to contain one hundred and sixty-eight grains. Act of January 
  18th, 1837, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story',s L. U. S. 2524.