Measurable (a.) Moderate; temperate; not excessive.
Measure (n.) A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
Measure (n.) An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
Measure (n.) The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
Measure (n.) The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.
Measure (n.) Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
Measure (n.) Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.
Measure (n.) The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
Measure (n.) Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
Measure (n.) Regulated division of movement
Measure (n.) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.
Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
Measure (n.) The space between two bars.
Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
Measure (a.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.
Measure (a.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
Measure (a.) The act of measuring; measurement.
Measure (a.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.
Measured (imp. & p. p.) of Measure
Measuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Measure
Measure (n.) To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.
Measure (n.) To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.
Measure (n.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
Measure (n.) To adjust by a rule or standard.
Measure (n.) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.
Measure (v. i.) To make a measurement or measurements.
Measure (v. i.) To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
Measure (v. i.) 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.
Measured (a.) 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.
Measureless (a.) Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
Measurement (n.) The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
Measurement (n.) The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
Measurer (n.) One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
Measuring (a.) Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.
Meat (n.) 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.
Meat (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
Meat (n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
Meat (v. t.) To supply with food.
Meatal (a.) Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.
Meated (a.) Fed; fattened.
Meated (a.) Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as, thick-meated.
Meath (n.) Alt. of Meathe
Meathe (n.) A sweet liquor; mead.
Meatiness (n.) Quality of being meaty.
Meatless (a.) Having no meat; without food.
Meatoscope (n.) A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.
Meatotome (n.) An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.
Meatuses (pl. ) of Meatus
Meatus (n. sing. & pl.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Meaty (a.) Abounding in meat.
Meaw (n.) The sea mew.
Meaw (v. i.) See Mew, to cry as a cat.
Meawl (v. i.) See Mewl, and Miaul.
Meazel (n.) See 1st Measle.
Meazling (a.) Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
Mebles (n. pl.) See Moebles.
Mecate (n.) A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
Meccawee (a.) Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia.
Meccawee (n.) A native or inhabitant of Mecca.
Mechanic (a.) The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Mechanic (a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.
Mechanic (a.) Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.
Mechanic (a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
Mechanic (a.) Base.
Mechanical (a.) Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
Mechanical (a.) Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
Mechanical (a.) Done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion; proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.
Mechanical (a.) Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
Mechanical (a.) Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric.
Mechanical (n.) A mechanic.
Mechanicalize (v. t.) To cause to become mechanical.
Mechanically (adv.) In a mechanical manner.
Mechanicalness (n.) The state or quality of being mechanical.
Mechanician (n.) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.
Mechanico-chemical (a.) Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
Mechanics (n.) That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.
Mechanism (n.) The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
Mechanism (n.) Mechanical operation or action.
Mechanism (n.) An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
Mechanist (n.) A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.
Mechanist (n.) One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.
Mechanized (imp. & p. p.) of Mechanize
Mechanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mechanize
Mechanize (v. t.) To cause to be mechanical.
Mechanograph (n.) One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Mechanographic (a.) Treating of mechanics.
Mechanographic (a.) Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints.
Mechanographist (n.) An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.
Mechanography (n.) The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.
Mechanurgy (n.) That branch of science which treats of moving machines.
Mechitarist (n.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
Mechlin (n.) A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.
Mechoacan (n.) A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.
Meckelian (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.
Meconate (n.) A salt of meconic acid.
Meconic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Meconidine (n.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.
Meconidium (n.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.
Meconin (n.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
Meconinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.