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Fip"pen*ny bit` (? or ?). [Corruption of five penny
bit.] The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -
- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

&fist; Before the act of Congress, Feb. 21, 1857, caused the
adoption of decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from
circulation, this coin passed currently for 6¼ cents, and was
called in New England a fourpence ha'penny or
fourpence; in New York a sixpence; in Pennsylvania,
Virginia, etc., a fip; and in Louisiana, a
picayune.

Fip"ple (f&etilde;r), n. [perh. fr. L.
fibula a clasp, a pin; cf. Prov. E. fible a stick used
to stir pottage.] A stopper, as in a wind instrument of
music. [Obs.] Bacon.

Fir (f&etilde;r), n. [Dan. fyr,
fyrr; akin to Sw. furu, Icel. fura, AS.
furh in furhwudu fir wood, G. föhre, OHG.
forha pine, vereheih a sort of oak, L. quercus
oak.] (Bot.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees,
often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their
timber and others for their resin.


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