Word Meanings - PENNYWEIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Twentieth
  Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.
• SILVERCERTIFICATE
  A certificate issued by a government that there has been deposited with it silver to a specified amount, payable to the bearer on demand. In the United States and its possessions, it is issued against the deposit of silver coin, and is not legal tender,
• Silverfish
  The tarpum.
• Silver-gray
  Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• SILVERGRAY
  Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
• Silveriness
  The state of being silvery.
• Twentyfold
  Twenty times as many.
• SILVERITE
  One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]
• Anciently
  In ancient times.
• Silverized
  of Silverize
• Twenty-fourmo
  Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc.
• SILVERSTATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• Penny-a-liner
  One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.
• Silverizing
  of Silverize

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