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Dime

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Bouvier (1839)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents or one-tenth of the dollar.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents, or one-tenth of the dollar.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

money, is a silver coin of cents. 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.