uncia

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Thus, we have a nail; pollex, pouce, pulgada, Swedish tum, for an inch; which word has been misapplied by our Saxon predecessors, and corrupted from the Latin uncia, which related only to weight.

From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John

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

"Dicat films Albini: si de quincunce remota est uncia, quid superat? poteras dixisse." "triens." "eu! rem poteris servare tuam."

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

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

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

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William