System of masses based on a pound of 16 ounces.
A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)
1 She had so far successfully fought down an hereditary tendency to avoirdupois .
2 Who'd ever suspect it in a man of your age and - and avoirdupois !
3 The rest of the day was spent in a kind of avoirdupois war.
4 The shekel was equal to about an ounce, in our modern avoirdupois system.
5 It was an easy herd to show, for the pounds avoirdupois were there.
6 These 'lights of the world' consisted of five hundred bodies of unwieldy avoirdupois .
7 The sterling is increasing by leaps and bounds; the avoirdupois is not even stationary.
8 The pound avoirdupois now in use, is an indefinite thing.
9 The long Naval oar is surprisingly full of avoirdupois weight.
10 All these accounts are in avoirdupois weight, and Irish money.
11 The Roman pound, it must be remembered, contained only twelve of our avoirdupois ounces.
12 It's not our weight in avoirdupois that drags us down.
13 One hundred and twenty-eight avoirdupois is approximately a proper standard.
14 English avoirdupois , costing from one dollar and three-quarters to two dollars and a half.
15 Prime roast-beef, fried potatoes, waffles and griddle-cakes supplied him with heat, energy and avoirdupois .
16 The officer is valuable for his dignity, avoirdupois , "bracelets," and other accessories.
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