- Examiner - Perfume sample - A headpiece; a helmet. - A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. - A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts. - An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about
eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to
sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; --
often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.