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Avoirdupois

n. & a.
  1. Goods sold by weight.
  2. Avoirdupois weight.
  3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
    4. Avoirdupois weight ,
    a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.