in matters of money, signifies sometimes the same thing with species; and sometimes, by adding the value of the pieces, it is used to express such as have no other particular name. For the piece of eight, or piastra, see MONEY-Table.

Piece, is also a kind of money of account, or rather a manner of accounting used among the negroes on the coast of Angola in Africa. See MONEY-Table.

heraldry, denotes an ordinary or charge.—The honourable pieces of the shield are the chief, fess, bend, pale, bar, cross, saltier, chevron, and in general all those which may take up one-third of the field, when alone, and in what manner soever it be. See HERALDRY.