centner (sentner)

[= G. Dan. Sw. centner = D. centenaar = Pol. centnar, tenary.] 1. In metal. and a ay ing, a weight divisible first into a hundred parts and then into small Centiped (Scolopendra bour er parts. Metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each being equal to one pound, calling the whole a centner ; the pound is divided into bonica). thirty-two parts or half-ounces, the half- ounce into two quarters, and each of these into two drams. But the a ayers use different weights; with them a centner is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned. 2. A common name in many European countries for a hundredweight. It is now fixed at 50 kilos or 110.23 pounds avoirdupois throughout Germany, Austria, Sweden (after Jan. 1, 1889), Denmark, and Switzerland. The centner was generally 100 local pounds; but this was not always the case. Thus, the Ca el light centner was 108 light pounds, or 111.1 pounds avoirdupois the old Pru ian centner was usually 110 pounds, or 113.3 pounds avoirdupois; the Hamburg centner was 112 pounds, or 119.6 pounds avoirdupois; and the Bremen centner was 116 pounds, or 127.2 pounds avoirdupois. See cen tenaar, cantar, and quintal. The British cental has also been called centner. See cental. The Liverpool corn measure of 100 lb., called a centner , he proposes as the unit of measure. Standard (London), March 30, 1881. cento (sen'tō), n. [= F. cent on = Sp. cent on = Pg.centões = It. cente cent one, cento (n-), patchwork, a cento, prob. for * centro ( n- ), τρων , patchwork, a cento, κέντρον , a pin, point, etc.: see center1 .] 1. A patchwork. His apparel is a cento , or the ruins of ten fashions. Shirley, Witty Fair One, ii. 2. Jefferson, Correspondence, I. 190. Hence-2. In music and literature , a composition made up of selections from the works of various authors or composers; a pasticcio; a medley. It is a mere cento of blunders. writers. I have laboriously collected this Cento out of divers Burton , Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 20. It is quilted, as it were, out of shreds of divers poets, such as scholars call a cento . Camden , Remains. A cento primarily signifies a cloak made of patches. In poetry it denotes a work wholly composed of verses or pa ages promiscuously taken from authors, only disposed in a new form or order, so as to compose a new work and be semeaning comp on i us has laid down the observed centos. The may be taken either from the same poet, or from several, and the verses may taken divided into two, one half to be connected with another half taken elst where, but two verses are never to be taken together. I. D'Israeli, Curios. of Lit., I. 392. French system of coinage, the cent oculated (sen-tok'u-la-ted), a. [ of United centoist (sen'tō-ist), n. [ been struck in copper and bronze, There are also coins of 2, 3, 5, and 10 centimes.