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- English Word Measure Definition To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
- English Word Measure Definition To adjust by a rule or standard.
- English Word Measure Definition To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.
- English Word Measure Definition To make a measurement or measurements.
- English Word Measure Definition To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
- English Word Measure Definition To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.
- English Word Measured Definition of Measure
- English Word Measured Definition Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.
- English Word Measureless Definition Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
- English Word Measurement Definition The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
- English Word Measurement Definition The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
- English Word Measurer Definition One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
- English Word Measuring Definition of Measure
- English Word Measuring Definition Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.
- English Word Meat Definition Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
- English Word Meat Definition The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
- English Word Meat Definition Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
- English Word Meat Definition To supply with food.
- English Word Meatal Definition Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.
- English Word Meated Definition Fed; fattened.
- English Word Meated Definition Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated.
- English Word Meath Definition Alt. of Meathe
- English Word Meathe Definition A sweet liquor; mead.
- English Word Meatiness Definition Quality of being meaty.
- English Word Meatless Definition Having no meat; without food.
- English Word Meatoscope Definition A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.
- English Word Meatotome Definition An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.
- English Word Meatus Definition A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
- English Word Meatuses Definition of Meatus
- English Word Meaty Definition Abounding in meat.