Also 7 condrin. [‘In Malay, to which language the word apparently belongs, kandūri’ (Yule).] A Chinese weight and money of account, equal to 10 cash or 1/100 of a tael. As a weight of gold or silver estimated at about 6 grains Troy.
[1554. A. Nunes, 39 (Y.). In Malacca the weight used for gold, musk, &c., the cate, contains 20 taels, each tael 16 mazes, each maz 20 cumduryns.]
1615. R. Cocks, Diary, i. (1883), 1 (Y.). We bought 5 greate square postes of the Kinges master carpenter; cost 2 mas 6 condrins per peece.
1745. P. Thomas, Jrnl. Anson’s Voy., 260. A Moidore by those Weights weighs just thirty Candarines.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 531. Candareen.
1802. Capt. Elmore, in Naval Chron., VIII. 382. Which will be settled at seven mace two candereen per head.
1854. in R. Tomes, Amer. in Japan, 410. The Japanese have a decimal system of weight, like the Chinese, of catty, tael, mace, candareen, and cash.
