CENT

A coin of the United States, the least in value of those now minted. It is the one-hundreth part of a dollar. Its weight D 1s 72 gr., and it is composed of copper and nickel in the ratio of 88 to 12. CENTENA, A hundred. A district or division containing originally a hundred Cree- E men, established among the Goths, Germans, Franks, and Lombards, for military and civil purposes, and answering to the Saxon "hundred." Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 115. Also, in old records and pleadings, 11. hlWdred weight. f CENTENARil. Petty judges, under-sheriffs of counties, that had rule of a hundred, (centena,) and judged smaller matters among them. 1 Vent. 211. G [s. 187]