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pounds
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pound \Pound\, n.; pl. Pounds, collectively Pound or Pounds. [AS. pund, fr. L. pondo, akin to pondus a weight, pendere to weigh. See Pendant.]
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A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
Note: The pound in general use in the United States and in England is the pound avoirdupois, which is divided into sixteen ounces, and contains 7,000 grains. The pound troy is divided into twelve ounces, and contains 5,760 grains. 144 pounds avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds troy weight. See Avoirdupois, and Troy.
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A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86. There is no coin known by this name, but the gold sovereign is of the same value.
Note: The pound sterling was in Saxon times, about a. d. 671, a pound troy of silver, and a shilling was its twentieth part; consequently the latter was three times as large as it is at present.
--Peacham.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "pounds".
Earthside that would be over a hundred pounds and I could flap forever and never get off the ground.
But with his inconsiderable mass having a lunar weight of only twenty pounds, he was no burden.
He knew what was in it, rolls of microfilm and colorfilm, a few souvenirs, toilet articles, various irreplaceables-fifty pounds of mass.
He helped a metalsmith struggle over the hill with a portable atomic heater, difficult to handle because of a mass of eight hundred pounds, but weighing here only sixteen pounds.
At half of fifteen pounds per square inch, and allowing for the arch of the roof, that's a load of one and an eighth billion pounds.
Synthetic spider silk, This gauge we're using for the roof has a tensile strength of four thousand pounds a running inch.
With a rim about eighteen hundred thousand inches around, the maximum pull at the point of anchoring would be about six hundred and twenty-five pounds per inch.
Seventeen pounds -- two more than Earth sea-level and nearly twice what we use in the city.
In gliding I support a mere ten pounds on each arm -- shucks, on Earth you work harder than that lying in bed.
In the meantime, he was encouraged to keep the routine of a semi-invalid himself in order to recover the twenty-five pounds he had lost in two days and two nights, and to make up for the heavy strain on his heart during the last night.
For every pound burned in the Charon there were at least a hundred pounds used in power plants on the surface.
But I had three hundred pounds mass not a whit reduced by lowered weight.
Instead I was about to say that he couldn't possibly have stuffed several pounds of paper into Flexible Frank, he was already stuffed like a goose when I remembered that I had built a temporary shelf across the bottom of his wheel-chair base to hold tools while I worked on him.
A profit of eight pounds and fourteen shillings, she wrote in click black ink needy on the bottom line.
In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy's back pay and a few pounds he'd managed to save himself.