Definition of rule

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Rule (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly..

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Rhetorician :: Rhetorician (n.) One well versed in the rules and principles of rhetoric.
Fantasia :: Fantasia (n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form..
Melilot :: Melilot (n.) Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus caerulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese..
Factitious :: Factitious (a.) Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste..
Triarchy :: Triarchy (n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers..
Hemispherule :: Hemispherule (n.) A half spherule.
Bismer :: Bismer (n.) A rule steelyard.
Reign :: Reign (n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Grammatical :: Grammatical (a.) According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical..
Irregular :: Irregular (a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular..
Extravagant :: Extravagant (n.) One who is confined to no general rule.
Alligation :: Alligation (n.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values..
Trimorphism :: Trimorphism (n.) The coexistence among individuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism..
Rule :: Rule (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock..
Baggage :: Baggage (n.) Purulent matter.
General :: General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule..
Error :: Error (n.) The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.
Anteposition :: Anteposition (n.) The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it..
Criticism :: Criticism (n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism..
Dominate :: Dominate (v. t.) To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
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