Also 6 -yne, 7 -ine. [Sp.] A Spanish measure of weight for silver, equivalent to 9.26 grains; also, b. in Spain and Spanish America, the name of various small silver coins.
In Bolivia, a coin equal to one-fifth of the Bolivian dollar, i.e., about eightpence; in Paraguay, a coin worth 2 reales or nearly fivepence (Cent. Dict., Supp.).
[1599. Minsheu, Span. Dict., Tomin, a kinde of weight weighing the quantity of a Reall in Spaine, neere sixpence English.]
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 454. Fiue Tomynes, that is, fiue Royals of plate, which is iust two shillings and sixe pence.
1604. E. G[rimstone], trans. D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, IV. xxii. 272. In Potozi it is readily worth foure peeces, and five Tomines.
† c. As the name of a weight used by jewelers.
1658. Phillips, Tomin, a certain weight among Jewellers, weighing about three Carrats.
1717. Blount’s Law Dict., Tomin, a Weight so called amongst Goldsmiths and Jewellers, and is twelve Grains.
