avoirdupois

How To Use avoirdupois In A Sentence

• A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System , an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains ( 28.35 grams ).
• This left the rather more serious avoirdupois problem.
• 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
• Druce obviously increased the avoirdupois and thymus gland index of the mice.
• Then that's the great thing about golf, age and avoirdupois seemingly is no barrier to success.
• The first and superb Willy Loman was Lee J. Cobb, of great talent and considerable avoirdupois to make his fall reverberant.
• 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.
• She also thinks that joshing about stature is probably considered to be more benign than, say, pointing out avoirdupois.
• The rest of the day was spent in a kind of avoirdupois war. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
• 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