Word Meanings - AVOIRDUPOIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are

Additional info about word: AVOIRDUPOIS

where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62º Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds .

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• WHEREIN
  1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet
• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• WHERETO
  1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively.
• WHEREAS
  1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that;
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• WHERE'ER
  Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• SYSTEMATIST
  1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
• WHEREINTO
  1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively.
• WHERESOE'ER
  Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton.
• WHERETHROUGH
  Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• AVOIRDUPOIS
  where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., 1. Goods sold by weight. 2. Avoirdupois weight. 3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are
• SYSTEMATIZATION
  The act or operation of systematizing.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• WHER; WHERE
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• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• BERTILLON SYSTEM
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• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
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• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• WELTERWEIGHT
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• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
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