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OUNCE . (I) (Through O. Fr. once, See also:

MODERN

modern once, from See also:

LAT

Lat. uncia, twelfth See also:

PART

part, of See also:

WEIGHT

weight, of a See also:

pound, of measure, of a See also:

FOOT

foot, in which sense it gives the O.Eng. ynce, See also:

INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch), a unit of weight, being the twelfth part of a pound See also:

troy, =48o grains; in See also:

AVOIRDUPOIS

avoirdupois= 437.5 grains, -1 of a pound. The fluid ounce is a measure of capacity; in the See also:

UNITED

United See also:

KINGDOM

Kingdom it is See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent to an avoirdupois ounce of distilled See also:

WATER

water at 62° F.; in the United States of See also:

AMERICA

America it is the 128th part of the See also:

GALLON

gallon, =1 gill, =456.033 grains of distilled water at its maximum See also:

DENSITY (Lat. densus, thick)

density (see WEIGHTS AND See also:

MEASURES

MEASURES). (2) A name properly applied to the Felis uncia or See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow See also:

LEOPARD

leopard (q.v.). It appears to have been originally used of various See also:

SPECIES

species of See also:

LYNX (Lat. Lynx, Gr. airy, probably connected with X hovewv, to see)

lynx, and is still sometimes the name of the See also:

CANADA

Canada lynx. The word appears in O. Fr. and Ital. as once and lonce, onza and lonza respectively, and it is usually explained as being due to the confusion of the 1 with the See also:

ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article, lonce and lonza being changed to See also:

PONCE

Ponce or l'onza, and the 1' subsequently dropped. If this be so the word is the same as " lynx," from the popular Lat. lyncia=lyncia, Gr. Xiryt. On the other See also:

hand once and onza may be nasalized forms of yuz, the See also:

Persian name of the See also:

PANTHER

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