Also leang. [Chinese.] A Chinese weight, about 11/3 oz. avoirdupois; this weight in silver as a money of account. Also called tael.
1827. H. E. Lloyd, trans. Timkowski’s Trav., I. 17, note. A lan (liang) is a Chinese weight containing about 83/4 zolotnicks; the value of two roubles in silver. Ibid., II. 316. A good camel was sold for twenty or thirty liang.
