uncia

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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

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

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

To this copper is added eight centumpondia of poor argentiferous lead, each centumpondium of which contains an uncia and a drachma of silver, or a total of three-quarters of a libra of silver.

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