Crossword clues for pennyweight
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pennyweight \Pen"ny*weight`\, 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A former unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or 1/20th of a troy ounce
WordNet
n. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
Wikipedia
A pennyweight (abbreviated dwt or denarius weight) is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, of a troy ounce, of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams.
Usage examples of "pennyweight".
All I had left of Esteban was a salvage ticket awarding me 900 pennyweight in unspecified isotopes.
Some three or four hundred diggers arrived from Creswick-creek, a gold-field famous for its pennyweight fortunes--grubbed up through hard work, and squandered in dissipation among the swarm of sly-grog sellers in the district.
Twelve hundred pennyweight of morghium, bound for some ideology franchise in the Scatterhead.
Putting 900 pennyweight of lyghnium on the market would devalue the price another couple of kilotramos at least.
There was not a single pennyweight of extra flesh on that lean, hard body, and every Herald-trainee knew to his sorrow that she was in better physical shape than any of them.
He must get out of this damned place though he used the last pennyweight of his strength.
Sacks full of gold, verily I may say that all the gold poured out from the Australian fields, every pennyweight of it, hundreds of tons, all shipped over the sea to India, Australia, South Africa, Egypt, and, above all, America, to buy wheat.
They were so old that recipes called for a pennyweight of raisins and began the instructions for roasting a chicken with a nauseatingly detailed lesson on how to pluck and gut it.
Tryon hold the last pennyweight, and that the balanced scales will tip only when we patroons cast in our fortunes, .
In the cities, the guilds used a hodgepodge of gills and pennyweights and yards, mostly unrelated except that a pint of milk was supposed to weigh a pound.
Our talk was of cyanide processes, reverberatories, pennyweights, water-jackets.
She cast a lazy look at them, eyes hoisting pennyweights of pancake and false lash.
Alfred devised candles of seventy-two pennyweights of wax that would burn for four hours, thus six candles per day in succession to mark the time.
The avoirdupois ounce contains 18 pennyweights 5 1/2 grains troy weight.
On the other hand, they have been used to weigh their money and medicine with the pennyweights and grains troy weight, and are not in the habit of using the pounds and ounces of that series.