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hemisescla

hemisescla [LL] , half a sextula, a twelfth (of an ounce); (as fraction) one one hundred forty-fourth, but cf. ἡμισίκλιον. emisescla vel dimidia sextula Thurkill Abac. 61v; uncia ‥ dividitur in xij, et earum partium singule emisescla dicitur, duos habens scripulos Ib. 62; in nostris regulis [luna] invenitur post 13 gradus trientem et duellam et emisesclam habere Walcher Drac. 93.

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