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Definition of Pints
1. pint [n] - See also: pint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pints
Literary usage of Pints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"Urine voided, four pints. After this date, gradual approach to normal amount.
... Amount of urine, one and a half pints ; specific gravity, 1014. ..."
2. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1818)
"July 11, M, R, 23 pints. B, 29-19. Distant thunder yesterday and the day ...
17, M, R, 7J pints. B, 29-32. A great deal of rain until a late hour last ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1816)
"A, R, II pints. T, 40 deg. B, 29-09 inches. Frequent showers of hail and sleet.
... Eight o'clock evening, R, 31 pints. 26, M, R, apparently as last night. ..."
4. American Druggist (1888)
"30 powder is taken, treated in the usual way until 120 pints of menstruum have
been added, when percolation ceases; the drug is then taken, one-fifth at a ..."
5. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Étienne Montricla (1803)
"IT may be readily seen that the quantity of wine which the butler stole, did not
amount to 30 pints; for the second time that he drew a pint from the cask, ..."
6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1871)
"He was passing from six to seven pints of urine daily. The specific gravity on
the 3rd of ... He was allowed six pints daily, from which the cream had been ..."
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