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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
avoirdupois
    n 1: a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000
         grains) [syn: avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight]
    2: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
       well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
       avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Avoirdupois \Av`oir*du*pois"\ ([a^]v`[~e]r*d[-u]*poiz"), n. & a.
   [OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF.
   peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and
   Poise, n.]
   1. Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]
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   2. Avoirdupois weight.
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   3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
      [Colloq.]
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   Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser
      commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter,
      sugar, tea.
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   Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is
         equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of
         distilled water at 62[deg] Fahrenheit, the barometer
         being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air
         with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams
         make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4
         quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton.
         The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams,
         so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144
         pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred
         weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240
         pounds (sometimes called a long ton).
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
beef, beefiness, deadweight, fatness, gravity, gross weight, heaviness, heft, heftiness, liveweight, neat weight, net, net weight, overbalance, overweight, ponderability, ponderosity, ponderousness, poundage, tonnage, underweight, weight, weightiness
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