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ADARME

Volume 1 · 55 words · 1823 Edition

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