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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Marvel :: Marvel (v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder; to wonder..
Ha :: Ha (interj.) An exclamation denoting surprise, joy, or grief. Both as uttered and as written, it expresses a great variety of emotions, determined by the tone or the context. When repeated, ha, ha, it is an expression of laughter, satisfaction, or triumph, sometimes of derisive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to Well, it is so..
Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..
Astound :: Astound (a.) Stunned; astounded; astonished.
Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..
Detonating :: Detonating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detonat.
Platonized :: Platonized (imp. & p. p.) of Platoniz.
Boat Bug :: Boat bug () An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a little boat. Called also boat fly, boat insect, boatman, and water boatman..
Flagging :: Flagging (n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively..
Bass :: Bass (a.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone..
Mule :: Mule (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny..
Phytons :: Phytons (pl. ) of Phyto.
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Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting..
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Lap :: Lap (v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
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