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Perch :: Perch (n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework..

Ultra :: Ultra (a.) Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures..

Quartan :: Quartan (n.) A measure, the fourth part of some other measure..

Stang :: Stang (n.) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch..

Cortes :: Cortes (n. pl.) The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain..

Unwise :: Unwise (a.) Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures..

Footbreadth :: Footbreadth (n.) The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure.

Juger :: "Juger (n.) A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth..

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint..

Countermine :: Countermine (v. t.) To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.

Aune :: Aune (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter..

Admeasure :: Admeasure (v. t.) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture..

Step :: Step (v. i.) Proceeding; measure; action; an act.

Odometrical :: Odometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to the odometer, or to measurements made with it..

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

Mismeasure :: Mismeasure (v. t.) To measure or estimate incorrectly.

Ureameter :: Ureameter (n.) An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly..

Ultra :: Ultra (n.) One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

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