denay

[DENY.] A denial or refusal. "My love can give no place, bide no denay." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night, ii. 4. *dě-nāy', v. t. [DENY.] To deny, to refuse. "What were those three, The which thy proffered curtesie denay ?" Spenser: F. Q., III. vii. 57. IMG:content-2135.png:[blocks in formation] by parties in a contract, . Denarius sancti Petri , St. Peter's pence (q. v.). Denarius tertius comitatus , When county courts had superior jurisdiction in England, two-thirds of the fines were reserved for Min .: Arborescent or mo -agate; agate exhibit the king, and one-third, or a penny, to the earl of the county, who either received it in specie or had an equivalent for it out of the exchequer. ( Paroch . Antiq ., 418.) ing in its sections the forms or figures of vegetable growth. *děn-drăn-thrō-pol-ô-gỹ, s. [Gr. dendron =a tree, and Eng. anthropology (q. v.).] A study based on the theory that man had sprung from trees. "He formed, therefore, no system of dendranthropol ogy."-Southey: The Doctor, ch. ccxv. , pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, æ, œ = ē; ey = a. = dendraspidæ