Definitionn. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
Last update: August 24, 2015
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Pennyweight of powder in a skull. [Please select]
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Twelve grammes one pennyweight. [Please select]
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There's ne'er a barber in London (and that's a bold word) can palm a rotten caul, or a pennyweight of dead hair, upon me.' [Please select]
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_ Grandfather's Clock My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. [Please select]
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Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire, by weight and metre, to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight, though a nation is perishing for a leader. [Please select]
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I tell you what," said I: "I'll come just to show you the ropes, and I won't take a pennyweight of the swag.' [Please select]
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