avoirdupois

Our nation's excess avoirdupois was, it was alleged, costing north of $100 billion a year.

Its owner seems to take as much pride in her bones as the big girls of Rubens could take in their avoirdupois.

English avoirdupois, costing from one dollar and three-quarters to two dollars and a half.

I never can see why I should relieve a maiden of a burden when her avoirdupois equals mine.

"Let go, Mr. Passford," whispered Flint, when he realized that his avoirdupois was too much for the young officer.

How can we know that one pound and one pound make two pounds, if one of the pounds may be troy and the other avoirdupois?

In the computation of avoirdupois and of the tape-measure, this was the greatest figure that ever travelled the Great North Road.