Significados de troy weight en inglés

Those things sound well, but they are shadowy and indefinite, like troy weight and avoirdupois; nobody knows what they mean.

Mr. M'Culla charges good copper at fourteenpence per pound: but I know not whether he means avoirdupois or troy weight.

He knew things about troy weight and geography and Isaac and the Mariners of England of which Billy did not dream.

Did you ever,' he says, 'feel the avoirdupois power of gold-notthe troy weight of it, but the sixteen-ounces-to-the-poundforce of it?'

I could not imagine who the man was; had I but found him out, my vengeance would not have been measured by troy weight.

In Troy weight-Troywhere the hay scales come from-theanswer was written.

Royal on the proposed Abolition of Troy Weight.

Troyes-from the standard weight of which we have our Troy weight-isthe birth-place of many illustrious men.

" Troy weight," said the General magnanimously.