Definition of ounce

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Ounce (n.) A weight, the sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois, and containing 437/ grains..

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Prolate :: Prolate (v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.
Surfeit :: Surfboat (n.) A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach..
Denouncement :: Denouncement (n.) Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation..
Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..
Frounce :: Frounce (v. i.) To gather into or adorn with plaits, as a dress; to form wrinkles in or upon; to curl or frizzle, as the hair..
Proscribe :: Proscribe (v. t.) To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters..
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender..
Pouncing :: Pouncing (n.) The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker..
Bulletin :: Bulletin (n.) Any public notice or announcement, especially of news recently received..
Voice :: Voice (v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Uncia :: Uncia (n.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce..
Sentence :: Sentence (n.) In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases..
Demster :: Demster (n.) An officer whose duty it was to announce the doom or sentence pronounced by the court.
Jounced :: Jounced (imp. & p. p.) of Jounc.
Annunciation :: Annunciation (n.) The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace..
Delate :: Delate (v.) To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against; to accuse; to denounce..
Flounced :: Flounced (imp. & p. p.) of Flounc.
Signify :: Signify (n.) To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present..
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin..
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