a measure of capacity for dry things, as grain, fruits, dry pulse, &c containing four pecks, or eight gallons, or one-eighth of a quarter.

A bushel, by 12 Henry VII. c. 5. is to contain eight gallons of wheat; the gallon eight pounds of troy-weight; the ounce twenty farthings, and the sterling thirty-two grains, or corns of wheat growing in the midst of the ear.

At Paris, the bushel is divided into two half bushels; the half bushel into two quarts; the quart into two half quarts; the half quart into two litrons; and the litron into two half litrons. By a sentence of the provost of the merchants of Paris, the bushel is to be eight inches two lines and a half high, and ten inches diameter; the quart four inches nine lines high, and six inches nine lines wide; the half quart four inches three lines high, and five inches diameter; the litron three inches and a half high, and three inches ten lines in diameter. Three bushels make a minot; six, a mine; twelve, a septier; and an hundred and forty-four, a muid. In other parts of France the bushel varies.

Oats are measured in a double proportion to other grains, so that twenty-four bushels of oats make a septier, and 288 a muid. The bushel of oats is divided into four picotins, the picotin into two half quarts, or four litrons. For salt, four bushels make one minot, and six a septier; for coals, eight bushels make one minot, fifteen a mine, and 320 a muid; for lime, three bushels make a minot, and forty-eight minots a muid.