| Noun | 1. | avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weightsgrain - 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams dram - 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams oz., ounce - a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams lb, pound - 16 ounces; "he tried to lift 100 pounds" stone - an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" quarter - a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) | |