uncia

American  

[uhn-shee-uh] / ˈʌn ʃi ə /

noun

unciae plural

1. a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.

2. (in prescriptions) an ounce of weight or volume.

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Etymology

Origin of uncia

1685–95; < Latin: a twelfth part, akin to ūnus one; cf. inch ¹

Example Sentences

Another is made of half a libra of brick dust, a third of a libra of rock salt, an uncia and a half of vitriol, and one uncia of saltpetre.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

As for the large coins which weigh a drachma, a sicilicus, half an uncia, or an uncia, beat them into leaves.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Dosis repetend. 3tiis. 4tis. vel 6tis. horis—Eodem modo sit haustus cum spirit. mindereri uncia dimidiâ.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald