INCH

A measure of length, containing one-twelfth part of a foot; originally supposed equal to three barleycorns. Inch of candle. A mode of sale at one time in use among merchants. A notice is first given upon, the exchange, or other public place, as to tae time of sale. The goods to be sold are divided into lots, printed papers of which, and the conditions of sale, are published. When the sale’ takes place, a small piece of candle, about an inch long, is kept burning, and the last bidder, when the candle goes out, is entitled to the lot or parcel for, which he bids. Wharton. Inch of water. The unit for the measurement of a volume of water or of hydraulic power, being the quantity of water which, under a given constant head or pressure, will escape through an orifice one inch square {or a circular orifice having a diameter of one inch) in a vertical plane. Jackson Milling Co. v. Chandos, 82 Wis. 437, 52 N. W. 759. Miner’s inch. The quantity of water which .will escape from a ditch or reservoir through an orifice in its side one inch square, the center of the orifice being six inches below the constant level of the water, equivalent to about 1.6 cubic feet of water per minute. Defined by statute in .Colorado as “an inch-square orifice under a five-inch pressure, a five-inch pressure being from the top of the orifice of the box put into the banks of the ditch to the surface of water.” Mills’ Ann. St Colo. s 4643. See Longmire v.’ Smith, 26 Wash. 439, 67 Pac. 246, 58 L R. A. 508.