De-nā'rī-ūs, n.

n.; pl. DE-NĀ'RĪ. [Lat. denarius (sc. numus, a coin), properly, containing ten, from deni, ten each, ten at a time, from decem, ten. Cf. DENIER.] A Roman coin of the value of about sixteen or seventeen cents;—so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.