uncia

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Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a third of rock salt, an uncia of saltpetre, and half an uncia of refined salt.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Dosis repetend. 3tiis. 4tis. vel 6tis. horis—Eodem modo sit haustus cum spirit. mindereri uncia dimidiâ.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

Such liquation cakes should weigh up to three centumpondia, in each of which there is half an uncia of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Thus, we have a nail; pollex, pouce, pulgada, Swedish tum, for an inch; which word has been misapplied by our Saxon predecessors, and corrupted from the Latin uncia, which related only to weight.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

As for the large coins which weigh a drachma, a sicilicus, half an uncia, or an uncia, beat them into leaves.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius