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Calibre :: Calibre (n.) The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber..

Imponderable :: Imponderable (a.) Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

Tod :: Tod (n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds..

Sinker :: Sinker (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it..

Sychnocarpous :: Sycee (n.) Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy..

Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Obolus :: Obolus (n.) An ancient weight, the sixth part of a drachm..

Huso :: Huso (n.) A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen..

Equiponderancy :: Equiponderancy (n.) Equality of weight; equipoise.

Incumbency :: Incumbency (n.) That which is physically incumbent; that which lies as a burden; a weight.

Plaice :: Plaice (n.) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more..

Prop :: Prop (v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building..

Fother :: Fother (n.) See Fodder, a unit of weight..

Assize :: Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize..

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat..

Rocking-stone :: Rocking-stone (n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force..

Deca- :: Deca- () A prefix, from Gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (Metric System), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit..

Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..

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

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