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candareen|kændəˈriːn|
Also 7 condrin.
[‘In Malay, to which language the word apparently belongs, kandūri’ (Yule).]
A Chinese weight and money of account, equal to 10 cash or 1/100 of a tael. As a weight of gold or silver estimated at about 6 grains Troy.
[1554A. Nunes 39 (Y.) In Malacca the weight used for gold, musk, &c., the cate, contains 20 taels, each tael 16 mazes, each maz 20 cumduryns.] 1615R. Cocks Diary i. (1883) 1 (Y.) We bought 5 greate square postes of the Kinges master carpenter; cost 2 mas 6 condrins per peece. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Voy. S. Seas 260 A Moidore by those Weights weighs just thirty Candarines. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 531 Candareen. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 382 Which will be settled at seven mace two candereen per head. 1854in R. Tomes Amer. in Japan 410 The Japanese have a decimal system of weight, like the Chinese, of catty, tael, mace, candareen, and cash. |