uncia

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 Georgius Agricola

This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.

From Milton's Comus by William Bell

Another is made of half a libra of brick dust, a third of a libra of rock salt, an uncia and a half of vitriol, and one uncia of saltpetre.

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

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

From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Robert Steele

One-half uncia of silver would be 12 ozs.

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

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 Georgius Agricola

Then the silver is sprinkled with two unciae of that powdered compound and is stirred.

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

Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a quarter of refined salt, one and a half unciae of saltpetre, an uncia of sal-ammoniac, and half an uncia of rock salt.

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

As the Roman libra contains 12 unciae and the German pfundt 16 untzen, the actual weights of these latter quantities are still further apart—the former 4946 and the latter 7219 Troy grains.

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

Lastly, the Venetians divide the bes into eight unciae.

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