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Timely :: Timely (superl.) Keeping time or measure.

Crane :: Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel..

Cor :: Cor (n.) A Hebrew measure of capacity; a homer.

Cubit :: Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger..

Yojan :: Yojan (n.) A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five..

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard..

Diurnal :: Diurnal (a.) Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth..

Timer :: Timer (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc..

Countergage :: Countergage (n.) An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made..

Yardland :: Yardland (n.) A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate..

Wey :: Wey (n.) A certain measure of weight.

Stoup :: Stoup (n.) A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.

Tetrameter :: Tetrameter (n.) A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet..

Lap :: Lap (n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing..

Measured :: 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..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons..

Line :: Line (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode..

Pneumometry :: Pneumometry (n.) Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..

Beat :: Beat (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit..

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