1weightounce, a unit of weight equivalent to between one-twelfth and one sixteenth of a pound:
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Trente mil unces d'or pesed
1554
(
MS: s.xii2
)
si mulez enz [u]n unce de vert e un un[ce] de alum e un unce de sul[f]re
7
(
MS: s.xiiiin
)
Pernez la racine del time, ço est l'amblette del pré u des marais, un unce, de la sauge. .ij. unces [...]
251
(
c.1253
)
En letuaris e confeciuns la liver est de .xii. uncis; en tutes autre chosis la li. est de .xv. uncis
11
(
1390-1412;
MS: s.xv1
)
un ounse de soy cru
371.16
2volumeounce, a unit of capacity:
(
s.xiiim;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
le tier jor dous unches le seigna
ii 80
3lengthinch, a unit of length equivalent to one-twelfth of a foot:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiiex
)
A stone La groissur dimi unce
(var.
(D: 1276-77) onche
) avra
64.869
(
1271-72;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
la pointe de deus unces de parfundesce est mortele, kar il covient ke il perce les entrailes
15.18
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unce1 (s.xii1/3)