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

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

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

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