Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dextans

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DEX'TANS. Ten unciae, or ten-twelfths of anything; as the tenth part of an as, a nominal sum, not represented in actual coinage. Varro, L. L. v. 172. Suet. Nero, 32.