Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In southern India and Burma, a weight equivalent to about 3 pounds 5 ounces.
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- noun A
Burmese unit of measure forweight , approximately 1.63293kilograms (3.6pounds ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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A viss (1.6 kilograms; 3.5 pounds) of hair is worth between 400,000 kyats ($320) and 500,000 kyats ($400), it said.
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Brukar en viss animationsstudio vara kinkiga med copyrighten, eller?
30 and counting... Niklas Asker 2009
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IzskatÄs, ka viss kustÄs un griežÄs tÄ kÄ iepriekÅ¡.
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Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots bobhowe and I saw Grizzly Man last Saturday, and just now on coffee break we were cracking each other up with our Werner Herzog impressions: "Ven I look into de eyes of de beah, I see de flat, dead stahe of Leni Riefenstahl, above me in de dark viss de vhip..."
Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots shunn 2005
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Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots bobhowe and I saw Grizzly Man last Saturday, and just now on coffee break we were cracking each other up with our Werner Herzog impressions: "Ven I look into de eyes of de beah, I see de flat, dead stahe of Leni Riefenstahl, above me in de dark viss de vhip..."
Timothy Treadwell looks at these anneemals und sees people in beah syoots shunn 2005
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Stevie Wonder kan også, dersom brukt riktig, yte en viss helbredende effekt.
Agirra strives on Torill 2005
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Just ze ozzer day I vas reading in ze paper, a truckload of coffee vas hijacked in Nairobi by two men viss guns.
Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982
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The revenue yielded last year, B. tells me, was 320 viss of silver, or about 40,000 rupees.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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"Yes," she repeated, as simply as a babe, "a new vay; and I sought I come now so to go home viss mine hussbandt."
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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Sen he going to fall a little vay -- maybe a good vay -- in love viss her; and sen if Rudolph iss a scoundtrel, or if you iss a fool, sare be trouble.
Strong Hearts George Washington Cable 1884
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