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Of a Pound.
_s. d_.
10 0 are half
6 8 --- third
5 0 --- fourth
4 0 --- fifth
3 4 --- sixth
2 6 --- eighth
1 8 --- twelfth
1 0 --- twentieth
Of a shilling.
6_d_. are half
4 --- third
3 --- fourth
2 --- sixth
1 --- twelfth
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_Time_.
60 seconds 1 minute
60 minutes 1 hour
24 hours 1 day
7 days 1 week
4 weeks 1 lunar month
12 cal. mon. 1 year
13 lunar months, 1 day, 6 hours, or 365 days, 6 hours, 1 year.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, which alone
Hath twenty-eigth, except Leap year,
And twenty-nine is then its share.
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_Troy Weight_.
24 grains 1 pennywt.
20 pennywhts. 1 ounce
12 ounces 1 pound
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_Avoirdupoise Weight_.
16 drams 1 ounce
16 ounces 1 pound
28 pounds 1 quarter
4 quarters 1 hund. wt.
20 hund. wt. 1 ton
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_ Apothecaries Weight._
20 grains 1 scruple
3 scruples 1 dram
8 drams 1 ounce
12 ounces 1 pound
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_Wool Weight_.
7 pounds 1 clove
2 cloves 1 stone
2 stones 1 tod
61/2 tods 1 wey
2 weys 1 sack
12 sacks 1 last
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_Wine Measure_.
2 pints 1 quart
4 quarts 1 gallon
10 gallons 1 ank. brandy
42 gallons 1 tierce
63 gallons 1 hogshead
84 gallons 1 puncheon
2 hogsheads 1 pipe
2 pipes 1 ton
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_Ale and Beer Measure_.
2 pints 1 quart
4 quarts 1 gallon
8 gallons 1 firkin of ale
9 gallons 1 firk. of beer
2 firkins 1 kilderkin
2 kilderkins 1 barrel
14 barrel 1 hogshead
2 barrels 1 puncheon
3 barrels 1 butt
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_Coal Measure_.
4 pecks 1 bushel
9 bushels 1 vat or strike
3 bushels 1 sack
12 sacks 1 chaldron
91 chaldron 1 score
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_Dry Measure_.
2 pints 1 quart
2 quarts 1 pottle
2 pottles 1 gallon
2 gallons 1 peck
4 pecks 1 bushel
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