Carat
- n. A twenty-fourth part; — a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.
- n. The weight by which precious stones and pearls are weighed.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.