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Encyclopedia Britannica



OUNCE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 379 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OUNCE . (I) (Through O. Fr. once,
modern
  once, from Lat. uncia, twelfth
part
 , of
weight
 , of a
pound
 , of measure, of a foot, in which sense it gives the O.Eng. ynce, inch), a unit of
weight
 , being the twelfth
part
  of a
pound
  troy, =48o grains; in
avoirdupois
 = 437.5 grains, -1 of a pound. The fluid ounce is a measure of capacity; in the United Kingdom it is equivalent to an
avoirdupois
  ounce of distilled water at 62 F.; in the United States of America it is the 128th part of the
gallon
 , =1 gill, =456.033 grains of distilled water at its maximum density (see WEIGHTS AND
MEASURES
 ). (2) A name properly applied to the Felis uncia or snow leopard (q.v.). It appears to have been originally used of various species of
lynx
 , and is still sometimes the name of the Canada
lynx
 . The word appears in O. Fr. and Ital. as once and lonce, onza and lonza respectively, and it is usually explained as being due to the confusion of the 1 with the
article
 , lonce and lonza being changed to Ponce or l'onza, and the 1' subsequently dropped. If this be so the word is the same as " lynx," from the popular Lat. lyncia=lyncia, Gr. Xiryt. On the other hand once and onza may be nasalized forms of yuz, the Persian name of the panther.


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