uncia
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This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 John Haslam
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 Georgius Agricola
Five of these are placed at the same time in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper; these drip three centumpondia of lead, each of which contains half an uncia of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
These "thorns" are apparently fairly rich, four unciae to the centumpondium being equivalent to about 97 ozs. per ton, and they are only added to low-grade liquation material.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Another contains a libra of brick dust, a third of refined salt, and one and a half unciae of vitriol.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Three unciae are about 72 ounces 6 dwts.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Then the silver is sprinkled with two unciae of that powdered compound and is stirred.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
As the Roman libra contains 12 unciae and the German pfundt 16 untzen, the actual weights of these latter quantities are still further apart—the former 4946 and the latter 7219 Troy grains.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
