Definition of ton

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Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

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Devocalize :: Devocalize (v. t.) To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..
Inkstone :: Inkstone (n.) A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink..
Bird''s-tongue :: Bird's-tongue (n.) The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
Between :: Between (prep.) In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia..
Lithic :: Lithic (n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.
Lodestone :: Lodestone (n.) Same as Loadstone.
Mesocolon :: Mesocolon (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon..
Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) An object at which stones are flung.
Packing :: Packing (n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides..
Architectonics :: Architectonics (n.) The science of architecture.
Bed :: Bed (n.) The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds..
Bollworm :: Bollworm (n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops..
Tone :: Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral..
Army Worm :: Army worm () A lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, and other crops. The common army worm of the northern United States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm..
Platonize :: Platonize (v. t.) To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy..
Crotonic :: Crotonic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil..
Tophaceous :: Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
Counterterm :: Counterterm (n.) A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, foe is the counterterm of friend..
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