uncia

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Dosis ab uncia i. ad unc. iv. bis ter. quaterve die.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

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 uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae.

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

From time to time small pieces of sulphur, enveloped in or mixed with wax, are dropped into six librae of the molten copper, and consumed; the sulphur weighs half an uncia and a sicilicus.

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

Quam futilis sit in multis labor C. Barthii ut menda Torini passim sustineat, vel ex hoc loco intelligere licet: Et enim lege modo uncia pro nucea cum Humelbergio, & ista omnia glossemata vana sunt.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers