Sunday, August 25, 2013

LITTLE BY LITTLE (THE STATURE OF MAN)







inch. (1)  A measure of length supposed equal to three grains of barley laid end to end; the twelfth part of a foot. 


A foot is the sixth part of the stature of man, a span one eighth of it, and a thumb’s breadth or inch one seventy second.  Holder, On Time.
 



From: Johnson’s Dictionary, A Modern Selection by E.L. McAdam, Jr. & George Milne, New York, Pantheon Books, 1963

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