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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In southern India and Burma, a weight equivalent to about 3 pounds 5 ounces.
Wiktionary
- n. A Burmese unit of measure for weight, approximately 1.63293 kilograms (3.6 pounds).
Etymologies
- From Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Brukar en viss animationsstudio vara kinkiga med copyrighten, eller?”
“A viss (1.6 kilograms; 3.5 pounds) of hair is worth between 400,000 kyats ($320) and 500,000 kyats ($400), it said.”
“IzskatÄs, ka viss kustÄs un griežÄs tÄ kÄ iepriekÅ¡.”
“Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots bobhowe and I saw Grizzly Man last Saturday, and just now on coffee break we were cracking each other up with our Werner Herzog impressions: "Ven I look into de eyes of de beah, I see de flat, dead stahe of Leni Riefenstahl, above me in de dark viss de vhip...”
Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots
“Stevie Wonder kan også, dersom brukt riktig, yte en viss helbredende effekt.”
“Just ze ozzer day I vas reading in ze paper, a truckload of coffee vas hijacked in Nairobi by two men viss guns.”
“The revenue yielded last year, B. tells me, was 320 viss of silver, or about 40,000 rupees.”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“Yes," she repeated, as simply as a babe, "a new vay; and I sought I come now so to go home viss mine hussbandt.”
“Sen he going to fall a little vay -- maybe a good vay -- in love viss her; and sen if Rudolph iss a scoundtrel, or if you iss a fool, sare be trouble.”
“Sat iss a too great risk," she compassionately maintained, "to leaf even in se daytime sose shiltren -- so late sick -- alone viss only mine hussbandt and se sairvants!”
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