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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pennyweight \Pen"ny*weight`\, n. A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of a troy ounce; 1.555 grams; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It is abbreviated dwt or pwt. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name. [1913 Webster + PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pennyweight n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

PENNYWEIGHT. A troy weight which weighs twenty-four grains, or one-twentieth part of an ounce. Vide Weights.