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Definition of Pennyweight
1. Noun. A unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains.
Terms within: Grain
Group relationships: Apothecaries' Ounce, Ounce, Troy Ounce
Definition of Pennyweight
1. n. A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
Definition of Pennyweight
1. Noun. A former unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or 1/20th of a troy ounce ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pennyweight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennyweight
Literary usage of Pennyweight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mimic World and Public Exhibitions: Their History, Their Morals, and Effects by Olive Logan (1871)
"The True Story of Mr. Alfred pennyweight.—The Elegant Young Society Beau ...
A very ludicrous history is that of Mr. Alfred pennyweight—whom it was my ..."
2. Political and Official Papers by John Pendleton Kennedy (1872)
"... for each pennyweight; I lie pieces of forty and twenty francs of France, at
ninety-two cents and ninety-two hundredths of a cent for each pennyweight; ..."
3. Henley's Twentieth Century Forrmulas, Recipes and Processes: Containing Ten by Gardner Dexter Hiscox (1914)
"Gold coin, 1 pennyweight; pure copper, 8 grains; pure silver, 5 grains; brass,
... Gold of 22 carats, 1 pennyweight; silver, 2 grains; copper, 1 grain. ..."
4. Report of the Monetary Commission of the Indianapolis Convention of Boards by James Laurence Laughlin (1898)
"... at the following rates: Gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, Ioo cents
fur every 27 grains, or 88 8-9 cents per pennyweight; gold coins of France, ..."
5. The Victoria Post Office Directory (1869)
"... farmer Leary James, shoemaker Lewis William, fanner Life Maria, schoolmistress
Low Rev. Jas., Presby. minister MARTIN J as., miner, pennyweight ..."
6. The Diamond pocket dictionary of the holy Bibleby William Gurney by William Gurney (1839)
"... sheke 1 pennyweight and 10 ..... 2-7ths; hut their talent «d in weighing other
... pennyweight ..."
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