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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Analysis :: Analysis (n.) A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis..
Amoret :: Amoret (n.) An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.
Crescendo :: Crescendo (n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone.
Drove :: Drove (n.) A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.
Pair :: Pair (n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows..
Sceptre :: Sceptre (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace..
Collar :: Collar (n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars..
Idea :: Idea (n.) A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity..
Astonish :: Astonish (v. t.) To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow..
Marvelous :: Marvelous (n.) Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Robinet :: Robinet (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
Cottonade :: Cottonade (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
Forcer :: Forcer (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump.
Kalmuck :: Kalmuck (n.) A coarse, dyed, cotton cloth, made in Prussia..
Epistyle :: Epistyle (n.) A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
Bernese :: Bernese (a.) Pertaining to the city or canton of Bern, in Switzerland, or to its inhabitants..
Platonizer :: Platonizer (n.) One who Platonizes.
Autonomasy :: Autonomasy (n.) The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, He has gone to town, for, He has gone to London..
Tonometer :: Tonometer (n.) An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones.
Pleurothotonus :: Pleurothotonus (n.) A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally..
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