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Definition of measure

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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..

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Hour :: Hour (n.) A measure of distance traveled.

Oxhide :: Oxhide (n.) A measure of land. See 3d Hide.

Incommensurable :: Incommensurable (n.) One of two or more quantities which have no common measure.

Trochaical :: Trochaical (a.) Of or pertaining to trochees; consisting of trochees; as, trochaic measure or verse..

M :: M (n.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian..

Sanitarian :: Sanitarian (n.) An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.

Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..

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

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

Metric :: Metric (a.) Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement..

Modiolar :: Modiolar (a.) Shaped like a bushel measure.

Urn :: Urn (n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius..

Siding :: Siding (n.) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches..

Incommensurate :: Incommensurate (a.) Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Seal :: Seal (v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware..

Finger :: Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard..

Height :: Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature..

Length :: Length (a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.

Factious :: Factious (a.) Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons..