AVOIRDUPOIS  , or AvERDUPOIS (from the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French avoir de pois, goods of See also:

• WEIGHT

weight), the name of a See also:

• SYSTEM

system of weights used in See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and See also:

• AMERICA

America for all commodities except the See also:

• PRECIOUS (O. Fr. precios, mod. precieux, Lat. pretiosus, of high value or price, pretium)

precious metals, gems and medicines . The See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the system is the See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain . A cubic See also:

• INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch of See also:

• WATER

water weighs 252'458 grains . Of this grain 7000 now (see WEIGHTS AND See also:

• MEASURES

MEASURES) make a See also:

• POUND
• POUND (2)—(a)

pound avoirdupois . This pound is divided into 16 oz., and these ounces into 16 drachms . Avoirdupois Weight . Drachm, r6=See also:

• OUNCE

ounce, 16=pound, r4=See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, 2=See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter, 4=See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred, 20=ton . 27'3 grains 437'5 7000 98,000 196,000 grs, 112 lb 2240 lb .