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See also: Appendix:Variations of "e"

℈ U 2108, ℈ SCRUPLE ← ℇ [U 2107] Letterlike Symbols ℉ → [U 2109]

Translingual

Symbol

℈

1. (chiefly pharmacy) The symbol for scruple (unit of measure equal to twenty grains or 1.2959782 g).
   • 1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […] (in English), London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:

     BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.

Related terms

• ℥ (“apothecary ounce”)
• ʒ, ℨ (“dram or drachm”)