Lexicographical Neighbors of Carrats
Literary usage of Carrats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Schoolmaster's Assistant: Being a Compendium of Arithmetic, Both by Thomas Dilworth (1818)
"T. some of 24 car-. nis fine, some ol 22 carrats, and some of 18-carrots fine :
and If would have compounded of these sorts tlie quantity of 60 at of 20 ..."
2. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown by Edward Hyde East (1803)
"... of 22 carrats directed by former laws ; but not to authorize the ... than 22
carrats per pound troy. But by f. 6. the making or felling of any ..."
3. A Frontline Upon Money, Coins, and Exchange, in Regards Both to Theory and by John Hewitt (1755)
"The third of 22 carrats fine Gold, ... And fo' on, till there be but one Carrat
fine Gold, and 23 carrats Silver • ..."
4. The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated on the Principles of Modern by George Gregory (1798)
"... to be divided into twenty-four parts, called carrats; and gold, which is quite
free from alloy, is faid to be twenty-four ..."
5. A View of Universal History, from the Creation to the Present Time by John Adams (1795)
"... all diamonds that (hall exceed a certain number of carrats. ... in the world
are the following ; that of the great Mogul, which weighs 279 carrats ..."
6. An Introduction to Mr James Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ: To which is Added by Thomas Ruddiman (1773)
"... they divide-each mafs,of the one' or of the other metal, into certain degrees
or parts, the gold into what they call 24 carrats, ..."
7. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the by Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), John Obadiah Justamond (1777)
"... that of the Great Mogul, which weighs 279 carrats and one ... that of the
Grand Duke, which weighs 139 carrats; the great Sancy, of'106 car- rats ..."
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