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Webster 1913 Edition
Oulachan
Ou′la-chan
,Noun.
(Zool.)
Same as
Eulachon
. ☞ The troy ounce contains twenty pennyweights, each of twenty-four grains, or, in all, 480 grains, and is the twelfth part of the troy pound. The troy ounce is also a weight in apothecaries’ weight.
[Troy ounce is sometimes written as one word,
troyounce
.] 3.
Fig.: A small portion; a bit.
[Obs.]
By
ounces
hung his locks that he had. Chaucer.
Fluid ounce
. See under
Fluid
, Noun.