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▪ I. † sextern1 Sc. Obs. Variant of sestern.1425 Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) II. 12/1 The ald boll first maid be king Dauid contenit a sexterne [orig. sextarium] þe sexterne contenit xij galonnis. 14.. Assize of Measures in Sc. Acts (1844) I. 310 Item þe boll sall contene a sexterne viz. xij gallonis of ...
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▪ I. † ˈsestern Obs. Also 5 cestron, 6 sestorne, seystarne, 7 sestron. [var. sester; cf. testern, var. tester1. See also sextern.] = sester.1421 Coventry Leet Bk. 25 That no breuster sell no derre a Cestron ale to noo hukster but for xviij d. 1502 Arnolde Chron. 72 b/2 The tonne of burdeux..holdith ...
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bifolia, producing six leaves;
quaternion — four bifolia, producing eight leaves;
quinternion — five bifolia, producing ten leaves;
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pecia (ˈpiːsɪə) Pl. peciæ, pecie, pecias. [a. med.L. pecia piece n.] A gathering of a manuscript, usu. a gathering of four leaves. pecia system, a system of copying pecia by pecia.1908 H. Hall Stud. in Eng. Official Hist. Documents iii. 380 A rarer term [in Palæography] occurs in the use of peciae t...
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