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avoirdupois
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avoirdupois \Av`oir*du*pois"\ ([a^]v`[~e]r*d[-u]*poiz"), n. & a. [OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver , n., and Poise , n.] Goods sold by weight. [Obs.] Avoirdupois weight. Weight; heaviness; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, misspelling of Middle English avoir-de-peise (c.1300), from Old French avoir de pois "goods of weight," from aveir "property, goods" (noun use of aveir "have") + peis "weight," from Latin pensum , neuter of pendere "to weigh" (see pendant (n.)). ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The avoirdupois system (UK ; ; abbreviated avdp ) is a system of weights (more properly, mass ) based on a pound of 16 ounces . It is the everyday system of weight used in the United States and is still used to varying degrees in everyday life in the United ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There are 27.34 grains in one dram, 16 drams to one ounce and 16 ounces to one avoirdupois pound.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) [syn: avoirdupois weight ] excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness , fat , blubber ] [ant: leanness ]
Usage examples of avoirdupois.
My conversation at the Malibu Bar and No-Grill told Avoirdupois he could connect the spines with me.
Behind him, with his own pistol, was Avoirdupois, looking very pleased indeed.
I left, Avoirdupois was still trying to convince the others to join him in the search for the black crystal bird.
Jean-Luc Avoirdupois, but he greeted me as if we were all buddies and this whole business with the spine had ever happened.
I led Pele and Lono and Avoirdupois out the back door, across the little brick patio, across the public walkway, and onto the sand.
If you will kindly look at the original contract, a copy of which is in your possession, you will notice that nothing is said about the quality of the cattle, just so the pounds avoirdupois are there.
He was even larger than the last time Bryson had seen him, though his avoirdupois was elegantly sheathed in a suit of navy cashmere, his bull neck flattered by the spread collar of one of his Turnbull happened.
Later we found that it weighed 122 pounds avoirdupois, and was not much bigger than a magnum of champagne.
I shall put on about twenty kilos - I have a suit and shirt designed to cope with the excess avoirdupois -fatten my cheeks, tint hair and moustache, wear a sinister scar and a black leather glove.
Dutch traders were scrupulously honest in their dealings and purchased by weight, establishing it as an invariable table of avoirdupois, that the hand of a Dutchman weighed one pound, and his foot two pounds.
I was a little surprised at the liberty That Boy had taken in introducing an extra peptic element at our table, reflecting as I did that a certain number of avoirdupois ounces of nutriment which the visitor would dispose of corresponded to a very appreciable pecuniary amount, so that he was levying a contribution upon our Landlady which she might be inclined to complain of.
He was not much taller than Stile and tended to avoirdupois despite the antifat medication in the standard diet.
The avoirdupois ounce contains 18 pennyweights 5 1/2 grains troy weight.
But a Troy pound was only point eight-two-three of an Avoirdupois pound.
The Attic talent weighed about sixty minae, or avoirdupois pounds (see Hooper on Ancient Weights, Measures, &c.