CARAT (Arab. Oral,

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• WEIGHT

weight of four grains; Gr. Kep6Tro11, little

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

horn, the

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

fruit of the carob or

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• LOCUST

locust

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• 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 weight (originally in the form of a seed) used for diamonds and precious stones, and a measure for determining the fineness of gold . The exact weight of the carat, in practice, now varies slightly in different places . In 1877 a syndicate of London, Paris and Amsterdam jewellers fixed the weight at 205 milligrammes (3.163 troy grains) . The South African carat, according to Gardner Williams (general manager of the De Beers mines), is equal to 3.174 grains (The Diamond Mines of South Africa, 1902) . The fineness of gold is measured by a ratio with 24 carats as a standard; thus 2 parts of alloy make it 22-carat gold, and so on .