Cént'ner, n.

n. [Ger. centner, a hundred weight, from Lat. centenarius, from centum, hundred.] (Metal. & Assaying.) A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then into smaller parts.

☞ The metallurgists use a weight divided into a hundred equal parts, each one pound; the whole they call a centner: the pound is divided into thirty-two parts, or half ounces; the half ounce into two quarters; and each of these into two drams. But the assayers use different weights. With them a centner is one dram, to which the other parts are proportioned.