Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
Avoirdupois .
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Kilogramme, a French weight, equal to 21bs. 3oz. avoird.,
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Thus, taking the amount of indigenous sugar manufactured each year at seventy million kilogrammes (each kil. equal to 2 lbs. 2 oz. avoird.), there may besides be extracted from this root, which has served for that production, twelve million kilogrammes of saline matter, comparable to the best potash of commerce; and this, too, without, the loss of the alcohol and the other produce, the fabrication of which may be continued simultaneously.
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