By this weight, jewels, gold, silver, and liquors are weighed. (do. T.) By this weight, all coarse and drossy goods, grocery wares, and all metals, except gold and silver, are weighed. This measure is used for cloths, tapes, &c. This measure is used for grain, salt, fruits, coal, &c. This measure is used in measuring distances, or any object where length only is taken into consideration. A hand is 4 inches, and is used in measuring the height of horses. A fathom is 6 feet, and is chiefly used in measuring the depth of water, and also cables and ropes. A chain contains 100 links, and is 66 feet, or 4 rods long. This measure is used to get the contents of land; and that in which length and breadth are necessarily involved. This measure is used for the length, breadth, and depth of all solids. A wine gallon contains 231 cubic or solid inches; spirits, ale, beer, milk, &c., also belong to the same standard of liquid measure in the United States. Water is rate at 282 solid or cubic inches to the gallon. A bushel comains 2150,425 solid or cubic inches. 365 days, 5 h. 48 min. 57 sec. & 39 thirds, 1 Julian year. Thirty days have September, April, June, and November; February hath 28 alone, and all the rest are thirty-one. In bissextile, or leap year, February has 29 days. 12 signs, or 360 degrees, (do. s.) 1 great circle of the Zodiac. Folio contains 2 leaves, or 4 pages, in 1 sheet, |