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See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.
n.
An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
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The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
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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.
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Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.
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Being of the same kind as another that has preceded; another, like a protype; as, a second Cato; a second Troy; a second deluge.
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Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
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An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.
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A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
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A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
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A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.
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Troy weight.
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A native or inhabitant of Troy.
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Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
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The twelfth part of a troy pound.
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A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
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Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
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Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy.
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A celebrated Greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of Ilium, the ancient Troy. The Iliad is ascribed to Homer.
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Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
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