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ADARME

Volume 1 · 54 words · 1771 Edition

in commerce, a small weight in Spain, which is also used at Buenos-Aires, and in all Spanish America. It is the 16th part of an ounce, which at Paris is called the demi-grain. But the Spanish ounce is seven per cent lighter than that of Paris. Stephens renders it in English by a dram.