uncia

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One-half uncia of silver would be 12 ozs.

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

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

A centumpondium weighs 70.6 lbs. avoirdupois, an uncia 412.2 Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.

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

In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver.

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

The Moslem system is evidently borrowed from the Roman "as" and "uncia."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir