"Kilogramme" is a word in ENGLISH
A measure of weight, being a thousand grams, equal to
2.2046 pounds avoirdupois (15,432.34 grains). It is equal to the weight
of a cubic decimeter of distilled water at the temperature of maximum
density, or 39¡ Fahrenheit.
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into …
Read the complete definitionTo have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
Read the complete definitionTo equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
Read the complete definitionThe property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, …
Read the complete definitionThe upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; …
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. A quantity of wool, whereof thirty make a sarplar. (The latter is equal to 2,240 pounds …
Read the complete definitionThe hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.
Read the complete definitionTo oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to …
Read the complete definitionA weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
Read the complete definitionTo act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
Read the complete definitionTo equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.
Read the complete definitionPower or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.
Read the complete definitionA weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.
Read the complete definitionA weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
Read the complete definitionThe quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced …
Read the complete definitionAmong the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.
Read the complete definitionEqual weight; equiponderance.
Read the complete definitionTo make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.
Read the complete definitionTo balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
Read the complete definitionThe state of being balanced; equality of weight.
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