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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LITER, n. [Gr.] A French measure of capacity, being a cubic decimeter, containing, according to Lunier, about a pint and a half old French measure. The liter is equal to 60,02800 cubic inches, or nearly 2 1/8 wine pints.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, a measure, from Greek, a weight Date: 1797 a metric unit of capacity equal to one cubic decimeter — see metric system table

Oxford Reference Dictionary

US var. of LITRE.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Liter Li"ter, Litre Li"tre, n. [F. litre, Gr. ? a silver coin.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see litre