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Definition of Ounces
1. ounce [n] - See also: ounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ounces
oulakan oulakans ould oulder ouldest oule oules oulk oulks oulong | oulongs ouls ouma oumas ounce ounces (current term) ounding oundy oup oupa | oupas ouped ouph ouphe ouphen ouphes ouphs ouping oupire oupires |
Literary usage of Ounces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1890)
"Weight of bottle before feeding, 13 ounces; after, 10 ounces. 2. ... Weight of
infant before feeding, 13 pounds 51 ounces; after, 13 pounds 10^ ounces. ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"(145) Twenty-one ounces of the arsenic solution 140 were added to 7 ounces of
zinc clippings, and to these were added 8 ounces of sulphuric acid. ..."
3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"In his statistics in 1883 Cross collected reports on 704 stones, and remarked
that only nine of these weighed above four ounces, and only two above six, ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1888)
"(97) Poured 8 ounces of arsenic into 16 ounces of muriatic acid, and allowed it
... (9H) Stirred 7 ounces of water into 1(5 ounces of bicarbonate of soda, ..."
5. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1917)
"The average weight of 1833 ten-cent loaves was 21.22 ounces. Of 3443 five-cent
loaves the average weight was 11.05 ounces. If the ten-cent loaf had been ..."