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Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

• Costermonger
  An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
• Shillelah
  An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
• SHILLISHALLISHILLYSHALLY
  In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner. I am somewhat dainty in making a resolution, because when I make it, I keep it; I don't stand shill-I-shall-I then; if I say 't, I'll do 't. Congreve.
• Costiferous
  Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.
• Shilling
  A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
• SHILLYSHALLY
  To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles.
• Shill-I-shall-I
  Alt. of Shilly-shally
• Costively
  In a costive manner.
• Shilly-shally
  In an irresolute, undecided, or hesitating manner.
• Costiveness
  An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
• Costless
  Costing nothing.
• Worthful
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving.
• Costlewe
  Costly.

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