SHIELDS

In Botany, little coloured cups or lines with a hard disk,ficationoflichens.surrounded by a. rim, and containing the fructiSHILLING. An English silver coin equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound sterling. Among the ancient Saxons, the value of the shilling was only five pence; it afterwards underwent many alterations, containing sometimes sixteen pence, and often twenty pence. The period when it obtained its present value is a igned to the reign of Edward I. Many other countries besides England have a coin of this name; of these, perhaps, the Hamburgh schilling is the best known. Its value is Irf. Engitsb. [s. 1133]