See also:

• CARAT (Arab. Oral, weight of four grains; Gr. Kep6Tro11, little horn, the fruit of the carob or locust tree)

CARAT (Arab. Oral, See also:

• WEIGHT

weight of four grains; Gr. Kep6Tro11, little See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn, the See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the carob or See also:

• LOCUST

locust See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree)  , a small See also:

• WEIGHT

weight (originally in the See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of a See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed) used for diamonds and See also:

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

precious stones, and a measure for determining the fineness of See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold . The exact weight of the See also:

• CARAT (Arab. Oral, weight of four grains; Gr. Kep6Tro11, little horn, the fruit of the carob or locust tree)

carat, in practice, now varies slightly in different places . In 1877 a See also:

• SYNDICATE

syndicate of See also:

• LONDON

London, See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris and See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam jewellers fixed the weight at 205 milligrammes (3.163 See also:

• TROY
• TROY, JEAN FRANCOIS DE (1679–1752)

troy grains) . The See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICAN

African carat, according to See also:

• GARDNER
• GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )

Gardner See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

Williams (See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general manager of the De Beers mines), is equal to 3.174 grains (The See also:

• DIAMOND

Diamond Mines of South See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, 1902) . The fineness of gold is measured by a ratio with 24 carats as a See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard; thus 2 parts of alloy make it 22-carat gold, and so on .