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Definition of Pennyweights
1. pennyweight [n] - See also: pennyweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennyweights
Literary usage of Pennyweights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Dental Metallurgy: A Text and Reference Book for Students and by Joseph Dupuy Hodgen (1918)
"Find the carat of 36 pennyweights of gold, 8 pennyweights of copper, 4 pennyweights
of silver. Ans. 18 carat. 2. Find the carat of 9 pennyweights of gold, ..."
2. The Mineral Resources of New South Wales by Geological Survey of New South Wales, Edward Fisher Pittman (1901)
"GOLD. email proportion (one or two pennyweights per ton) of gold in grains, which,
however, are not visible to the naked eye. ..."
3. The Elements of Mechanical Engineering by International Correspondence Schools (1897)
"Therefore, the entire quotient is 6 pounds 1 ounce 8 pennyweights 6 grains. Ans.
EXAMPLE.—A silversmith melted up 2 Ib. 8 oz. 10 pwt. of silver, ..."
4. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"Melt together 19 pennyweights of fine silver ; copper, 1 pennyweight ; and brass,
... Melt together 10 pennyweights of brass, and 1 oz. of pure silver. ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"... 1 ounce; quicksilver 14 pennyweights, oxide of bismuth 1 pennyweight, chloride
of silver 2 pennyweights. In the enamel- kiln, the bismuth and silver ..."
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