Denier

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who denies or contradicts.
  • noun. One who refuses or rejects.
  • noun. One who disowns; one who refuses to own, avow, or acknowledge.
  • noun. A silver coin (also called the norus denarius) introduced by the Carolingian dynasty into France, and soon issued, with varying types and legends, by other countries.
  • To obtain the fineness or size of (a silk thread) in deniers.
  • noun. A unit of weight in the French system, in use before 1812, equal to 19⅔ troy grains.
  • noun. A unit of weight for silk yarns, equal to about 8⅕ troy grains.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who denies.
  • noun. A small copper coin of insignificant value.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Person who denies something.
  • noun. An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
  • noun. A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various former European coins of different denominations
  • noun. one who denies
  • noun. a unit of measurement for the fineness of silk or nylon or rayon
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