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Updated: June 10, 2025
It is of Indian origin, a kirat being a small seed that was used in India to weigh diamonds with. Four grains are equal to one carat, and six carats make one pennyweight. But there is no standard weight fixed for the finest diamonds. Competition alone among purchasers must arrange their price.
The quantity of fine silver which shall constitute the Unit, being-settled, and the proportion of the value of gold, to that of silver; a table should be formed from the assay before suggested, classing the several foreign coins according to their fineness, declaring the worth of a pennyweight or grain in each class, and that they shall be lawful tenders at those rates, if not clipped or otherwise diminished; and where diminished, offering their value for them at the mint, deducting the expense of re-coinage.
The crows or vultures proclaim the serpents fate by their cries, on which the hunters come up and flea the animal, taking out his gall, which is employed as a sovereign remedy for several diseases, given to the quantity of a pennyweight in wine; particularly against the bite of a mad dog, for women in labour, for carbuncles, and other distempers.
"It is a weight as heavy as twenty-four grains." "The pennyweight will be very big, then," said Rollo. "Yes," said the apothecary; "but you can take a little strip of lead like a ribbon, and then roll it up, when you have made it just heavy enough, and then it will not take up much room.
"Where's the rest?" "There ain't any rest. That's every damned pennyweight." "Maybe we ought to weigh it, and see if he's lying?" "'Fore God it's all! Let me go!" He had kept looking through the crack of the door. "Reckon it's about right," said Keith. "'Tain't right! There's more there'n I took. My stuff's there too. For Christ's sake, let me go!" "Look here, Jack, is the little bag yours?"
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