"khous" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "khoes"
      },
      "expansion": "khous (plural khoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "ancient Greek unit",
          "word": "chous"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, Frank Donovan, Prepare Now for a Metric Future, New York, N.Y.: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, page 6",
          "text": "The two oldest Greek measures definitely marked as standards date from 550 b.c. and were found in excavations at the Acropolis at Athens. One is a cylindrical corn measure, a khous, which was equal to half the Babylonian log. The other is a water clock marked 2 khous that has a capacity of 393 cubic inches.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, page 112",
          "text": "The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, H[arry] N[orman] Turteltaub, Over the Wine-Dark Sea, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, page 112",
          "text": "When I was in Athens, I could get a khous of Khian for two drakhmai, and one of those jars won’t hold above seven khoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, John T. Kirby, World Eras, volumes 6 (Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E.), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Group, page 360, column 2",
          "text": "Drinking khoes of wine was part of the celebration at the Anthesteria.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chous (“ancient Greek unit”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-khous-en-noun-W5WZvj3U",
      "links": [
        [
          "chous",
          "chous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "khous"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "khoes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "khoes"
      },
      "expansion": "khous (plural khoes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "ancient Greek unit",
          "word": "chous"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, Frank Donovan, Prepare Now for a Metric Future, New York, N.Y.: Weybright and Talley, →LCCN, page 6",
          "text": "The two oldest Greek measures definitely marked as standards date from 550 b.c. and were found in excavations at the Acropolis at Athens. One is a cylindrical corn measure, a khous, which was equal to half the Babylonian log. The other is a water clock marked 2 khous that has a capacity of 393 cubic inches.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Douglas M[aurice] MacDowell, Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies; 1), Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, page 112",
          "text": "The amounts of the contributions which each member of a mess had to make each month are said by Plutarch to have been 1 medimnos of barley-meal, 8 khoes of wine, 5 mnai of cheese, 2½ mnai of figs, and ‘a very small amount of money’ for buying additional items of food (Lyk. 12.3).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, H[arry] N[orman] Turteltaub, Over the Wine-Dark Sea, New York, N.Y.: Forge, Tom Doherty Associates, page 112",
          "text": "When I was in Athens, I could get a khous of Khian for two drakhmai, and one of those jars won’t hold above seven khoes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, John T. Kirby, World Eras, volumes 6 (Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 B.C.E.), Detroit, Mich.: Gale Group, page 360, column 2",
          "text": "Drinking khoes of wine was part of the celebration at the Anthesteria.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of chous (“ancient Greek unit”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chous",
          "chous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "khous"
}