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‖ hemina|hɪˈmaɪnə|
Also (anglicized or as F.) 7 hemine, 8 emine, (esmine).
[L. hēmīna, a. Gr. ἡµίνα, f. ἡµι- half-. Cf. F. emine, hemine ‘a measure that containes three Possons; and comes to, in weight, about seuen and a halfe of our moderne ounces’ (Cotgr.).]
A liquid measure (orig. ancient Sicilian) of about half a pint; also, a measure for corn (see above, and quot. 1756).
1601Holland Pliny xx. xix, Five heads of the Poppy being sodden in three hemines of wine. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 3 The Ephemera feaver is cured by 3 drops taken from an Asses eare..in two hemina's of water. 1745A. Butler Lives Saints (1836) I. 377 note, The hemina of wine allowed by St. Bennet. 1756R. Rolt Dict. Trade & Comm., Hemina, Emine, or Esmine, is a great corn measure..At Marseilles the hemina of corn weighs 75 lb...and in Barbary it is computed equal to 9 bushels. |