How To Use Avoirdupois In A Sentence
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A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002285 ounce ( 0.065 gram ).
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SAVE THE POUND (avoirdupois) If the word avoirdupois sounds a bit foreign too it is from French and Middle English (Anglo-French) avoir de pois, "goods of weight" or "goods sold by weight".
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Dalgleish's retirement makes him the latest in a long line of jockeys having to admit that their avoirdupois is just too great a burden.
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There are two series of weights in use among us; the one called avoirdupois, the other troy.
Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State
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The stigmas can only be picked by hand, and it requires 70,000 flowers to obtain one pound avoirdupois of saffron; or 0.5 hectares to yield about 4.5 kg of dried saffron.
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I find several comments reflecting my interest in an accurate rifle, without complaining overly much about the avoirdupois.
Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1
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That my current hometown of Washington hasn't gnawed its way into this rating is a bit shocking, considering the ample avoirdupois on the streets of your nation's capital.
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These versions, however, highlight the burglar's avoirdupois in a way that the writer almost surely didn't want, and they lose the nice increasing-weight effect of, which puts the longest, heaviest descriptor last.
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The celebrator of fullness, he is the fat cook not only because of his personal avoirdupois but also because he writes his signature with butter on a dish already heavy with suet and cream.
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Just as the apothecary and avoirdupois systems of measurement have faded from our texts so should Young's, Cowling's, Fried's, and Clarke's equations fade into history.
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“Are you reminding me of her character, her social position or what Mr. Phinn calls her avoirdupois?”
Scales of Justice
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He was not much taller than Stile and tended to avoirdupois despite the antifat med - ication in the standard diet.
Split Infinity
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Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight, and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.
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Now, children are driven to and from school and in their lunch boxes you'll find potato crisps, sweets, chocolate and other goodies that add on the avoirdupois.
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Janet is a dear soul and very nicelooking; tall, but not over-tall; stoutish, yet with a certain restraint of outline suggestive of a thrifty soul who is not going to be overlavish even in the matter of avoirdupois.
Anne of the Island
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I suppose I should be thankful for the chance to make a fetish out of aging and avoirdupois.
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The London version of the Sunday Times may not have attained the same avoirdupois but it is still the biggest bruiser on the Irish Sunday block necessitating a strong pair of arms to master its format.
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And on that other part, in the Isle of Cathay, men find all manner thing that is need to man — cloths of gold, of silk, of spicery and all manner avoirdupois.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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And he does not know that yesterday was a day of purposely prepared rack and thumbscrew, whereby he was justly tortured for his guilt in jesting about Tib's avoirdupoise-weight; but he knows how he missed her all day, and how essential she is to his very existence.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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Though he had not yet gathered that avoirdupois which is associated with the dignity of office, there was in his square young frame an undeniable promise.
The Rim of the Desert
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This left the rather more serious avoirdupois problem.
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Weight. gramo = gram (15.432 grains avoirdupois). dekagramo = dekagram (.3527 ounce avoirdupois). hektogramo = hektogram (3.5274 ounce avoirdupois). kilogramo = kilogram (2.2046 pounds avoirdupois).
A Complete Grammar of Esperanto
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Druce obviously increased the avoirdupois and thymus gland index of the mice.
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Then that's the great thing about golf, age and avoirdupois seemingly is no barrier to success.
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The first and superb Willy Loman was Lee J. Cobb, of great talent and considerable avoirdupois to make his fall reverberant.
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The German loths per centner (1/2 oz. (avoirdupois) to 100 lbs.) equal parts per 3200; they are converted into parts per cent. by dividing by
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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She also thinks that joshing about stature is probably considered to be more benign than, say, pointing out avoirdupois.
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The rest of the day was spent in a kind of avoirdupois war.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System , an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains ( 28.35 grams ).
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Sorry, but I have lived with metric most of my life and converting to avoirdupois is too much of a pain for me.
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Or being hit from the blind side by someone of far great avoirdupois and wondering how the frame survived.
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In the metric system, the base unit of weight is the gram; in the avoirdupois system, it's the pound.
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the official maund in India is 82.6 pounds avoirdupois
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But beauty lay in the eye of the beholder, and the Edwardian cartophile beholders were fleshy fat persons, who consumed large dinners and showed their wealth through an excess of avoirdupois.
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It shall weigh not less than 5 nor more than 5 1/4 ounces avoirdupois and measure not less than 9 nor more than 9 1/4 inches in circumference.
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Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight, and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.
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She calls Pratt ‘woefully small and bigoted’ and mocks his ‘imposing avoirdupois.’
