Alexander Huntar, A Treatise, of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland (1624)
Date
1624
Author
Book title
A Treatise, Of Weights, Mets And Measvres Of Scotland. With Their Quantities, And Trve Foundation, and sundrie profitable Observations, arising vpon everie one of them. Together with the art of Metting, measuring & compting all sort of land with diverse Tables
Publication place
Edinburgh
Publisher
John Wreittoun
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
weights and measures
Summary
Logical definitions, as from "Of the Weights" (pp. 2-3)
Extent
1-10
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A corne or pickle of wheat, taken out of the middest of an eare of wheate, is the foundation of a graine weight.
sample: A corne or pickle of wheat, taken out of the middest of an eare of wheate, is the foundation of a graine weight.
Schafer
1624 H
STC
13993
Facsimiles
Huntar, Alexander. A Treatise of Weights, Mets, and Measures of Scotland / Alexander Hunter. The English experience, no. 671. Amsterdam and Norwood, N.J.: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and W. J. Johnson, 1974.
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