heminan.

/hɪˈmʌɪnə/

Forms: Also (anglicized or as French) 1600s hemine, 1700s emine, ( esmine).

Etymology: < Latin hēmīna, < Greek ἡμίνα, < ἡμι- half-. Compare French emine, hemine ‘a measure that containes three Possons; and comes to, in weight, about seuen and a halfe of our moderne ounces’ (Cotgrave).

A liquid measure (originally ancient Sicilian) of about half a pint; also, a measure for corn (see above, and quot. 1756²).

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hemina1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xix. 68 Five heads of this Poppie being sodden in three hemines of wine.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 3 The Ephemera feaver is cured by 3 drops taken from an Asses eare..in two hemina's of water.

1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 506 The Hemina of wine allowed by St. Bennet.

1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	hemina
释义	heminan. /hɪˈmʌɪnə/ Forms: Also (anglicized or as French) 1600s hemine, 1700s emine, ( esmine). Etymology: < Latin hēmīna, < Greek ἡμίνα, < ἡμι- half-. Compare French emine, hemine ‘a measure that containes three Possons; and comes to, in weight, about seuen and a halfe of our moderne ounces’ (Cotgrave). A liquid measure (originally ancient Sicilian) of about half a pint; also, a measure for corn (see above, and quot. 1756²). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > ancient Sicilian unit hemina1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xx. xix. 68 Five heads of this Poppie being sodden in three hemines of wine. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 3 The Ephemera feaver is cured by 3 drops taken from an Asses eare..in two hemina's of water. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 506 The Hemina of wine allowed by St. Bennet. 1756 R. Rolt New Dict. Trade 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1601
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