uncia

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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

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 Agricola, Georgius

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

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

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

And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.

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