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Dictionary Results for pennyweight:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pennyweight
    n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pennyweight \Pen"ny*weight`\, n.
   A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth
   part of a troy ounce; 1.555 grams; as, a pennyweight of gold
   or of arsenic. It is abbreviated dwt or pwt. It was anciently
   the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
   [1913 Webster + PJC]
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PENNYWEIGHT. A troy weight which weighs twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth 
part of an ounce. Vide Weights.
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