Definition of ton

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Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc..

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Intoned :: Intoned (imp. & p. p.) of Inton.
Minor :: Minor (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third..
Trebleness :: Trebleness (n.) The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones..
Monopyrenous :: Monopyrenous (a.) Having but a single stone or kernel.
Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..
Diatonically :: Diatonically (adv.) In a diatonic manner.
Crotonylene :: Crotonylene (n.) A colorless, volatile, pungent liquid, C4H6, produced artificially, and regarded as an unsaturated hydrocarbon of the acetylene series, and analogous to crotonic acid..
Emerald :: Emerald (n.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl..
Lap :: Lap (n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine..
Pondweed :: Pondweed (n.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers..
Expiatory :: Expiatory (a.) Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice..
Oxytone :: Oxytone (n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
Waste :: Waste (v.) That which is of no value; worthless remnants; refuse. Specifically: Remnants of cops, or other refuse resulting from the working of cotton, wool, hemp, and the like, used for wiping machinery, absorbing oil in the axle boxes of railway cars, etc..
Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The entire compass of tones.
Started :: Starstone (n.) Asteriated sapphire.
Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton..
Lias :: Lias (n.) The lowest of the three divisions of the Jurassic period; a name given in England and Europe to a series of marine limestones underlying the Oolite. See the Chart of Geology.
Mesogaster :: Mesogaster (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
Magnetic :: Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian..
Cassinette :: Cassinette (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk..
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