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Dime
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DIME, money. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of one-tenth part of a dollar or ten cents.
     2. It weighs forty-one and a quarter grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver and one hundred of alloy. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 8 and 9, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's L. U. S. 2523-4.



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