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- adjective the ordinal number of one hundred forty in counting order
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English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained all of them originally a real penny-weight of silver, the twentieth part of an ounce, and the two hundred-and-fortieth part of a pound.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith 1756
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