twelve penny

1. Lit .: Sold for a shilling; costing or worth a shilling. "I would wish no other revenge from this rhyming judge of the twelve - penny gallery." -Dryden. *2. Fig .: Applied to anything of insignificant value. "Trifles and twelve -penny matters."-Heylin. twelve-score, adject . Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty. Twelve - score was a common length for a shot in archery, and hence a measure often alluded to; the word yards, which is implied, tween. IMG:content-1596.png:[blocks in formation] "There heroes' wits are kept in pond'rous vases, And beaux' in snuff-boxes and tweezer - cases ."