Of, or relating to, troy weight, Of or expressed in troy weight, noun_ the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains. The avoirdupois pound contains 7000 troy grains; so that 175 pounds troy equal 144 pounds avoirdupois, or 1 pound troy = 0.82286 of a pound avoirdupois, and 1 ounce troy = 117/175 or 1.09714 ounce avoirdupois. Troy weight when divided, the pound into 12 ounces, the ounce into 8 drams, the dram into 3 scruples, and the scruple into 20 grains, is called apothecaries' weight, used in weighing medicines, etc. In the standard weights of the United States, the troy ounce is divided decimally down to the 1/10000 part, a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains, an ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War

An obsolete form of pence, plural of penny, Plural form of pen, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pen

In the United States, a cent, Money in general_ as, it cost a pretty penny (a good round sum); to turn an honest penny, a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit, verb_ slang To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door, electronics To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket, adjective_ Denoting the weight in pounds for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails, Worth or costing one penny

a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea, historical A halfpenny, An abbreviation of objection, used in connection with sol, abbreviation of solution, in the margins of old books of divinity. Hence obs and sols, objections and solutions. See ob-and-soler,

A small silver coin of Genoa imported into England by foreign merchants, especially in the fifteenth century Compare galley-halfpenny, Same as jean, 2, Alternative capitalization of Jane, "woman"