Uncia [noun]
Definition of Uncia:
one-sixteenth of a pound/28.35 grams
Opposite/Antonyms of Uncia:
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Sentence/Example of Uncia:
The uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae.
This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.
Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a third of rock salt, an uncia of saltpetre, and half an uncia of refined salt.
Of each bes of silver one sicilicus is consumed, or occasionally when very impure, three drachmae or half an uncia.
And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.
Such liquation cakes should weigh up to three centumpondia, in each of which there is half an uncia of silver.
The twelth part of an acre was called Uncia and half a foot, Semis, &c.