Do we say liter or litre

liter 10 occurrences

A Liter for the King; the King is hurt.

Simoun took it out with great care and, removing the burner, exposed to view the interior of the tank, which was lined with steel two centimeters in thickness and which had a capacity of over a liter.

It costs about one dollar per liter, whereas the Albay cacao costs from two to two and a half dollars per "ganta" (three liters).

The balao is sold in Albay at four reals for the tinaja of ten gantas (the liter at eight pence).

A liter of dried cacao beans weighs 630 grains; of picked and roasted, 610 grains.

he said, holding up a liter of Merlot.

This paid for their share of the ragožt, some cheese, bread and a liter of wine.

In the following observations the waters of thirty-two rains were collected, the chlorine determined by nitrate of silver in amounts of the water varying from one liter to one-half a liter, and in some instances less.

In the following observations the waters of thirty-two rains were collected, the chlorine determined by nitrate of silver in amounts of the water varying from one liter to one-half a liter, and in some instances less.

I have tryed to do as you wanted about the pillows and apples and good food and I don't think the young gentlemen are any liter in wate than when you went away.

litre 13 occurrences

One litre for every sixteen men.

1/2 litre = 7/8 pint.

(The litre, which is the principal unit of both fluid and dry measures, is the contents of 1 cubic décimètre (décimètre = 1/10 mètre).) DAYS, MONTHS, AND SEASONS.

'I haven't a litre o' red wine in the cellars.' "'Holy Powers!'

Acetic acid ... ... ... ... 1/2 litre.

When war was declared one of the first steps taken by the military authorities was to commandeer every motor-car, every motor-cycle and every litre of petrol in the kingdom.

Charcoal was added to grape must, in the proportion of 100 grains to a litre (2.1 pints), or if very much inclined to ferment, more charcoal was used.

To obtain a good infusion five spoonfuls of matte are sufficient for a litre of water.

I am feeling today as if it were no matter that the winter had been so hard; that we have no fuel but twigs; that the winter wheat was frozen; that we have eaten part of our seed potatoes and that another part of them was frost-bitten; that butter is a dollar a pound (and none to be had, even at that price, for days at a time); that wood alcohol is sixty- five cents a litre, and so on and so forth.

Meat in Paris in the autumn of 1816 was 24 francs the kilo, and milk 1 franc the quarter litre, not to mention eggs and butter, which were delicacies far beyond the reach of cultured, well-born people like myself.

In the cupboard I found the remnants of an onion pie, half a sausage, and a quarter of a litre of wine, which proved conclusively that he had not been in to supper.

A pinte was a little less than a litre (Hatzfeld and Darmesteter).

Hence a roquille would be less than an eighth of a litre.

Do we say   liter   or  litre