uncia

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V. both readings, uncia or nucia are permissible, and make very little difference.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers

The counters were made of various materials, ivory principally, “Adeo nulla uncia nobis est eboris, etc.”

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert

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

Another way is to take two unciae of prepared ore, five drachmae of roasted copper, one uncia of glass, or glass-galls reduced to powder, a semi-uncia of salt, and mix them.

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

Five of these are placed at the same time in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper; these drip three centumpondia of lead, each of which contains half an uncia of silver.

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