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(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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pennyweight'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pennyweight.html. 1828.
 
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