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[Sc. also me andew, ma on dew; And saue the wynnynge, And make meson - deux ther-with meseyse to helpe, And wikkede wones wihtly to amende. Piers Plowman (A), viii. 28. Mynsteris and masondewes malle to the erthe. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3038. Me as on due is an appellation of divers Hospitalls in this king do me, and it comes of the French (Maison de Dieu), and is no more but Gods house in English. Les Terms de la Ley (1641), fol. 202. 3676 2. Moderate; temperate; limited; of small ble succe . quantity or extent: as, to meet with measura- Be meke & mesurabul nouzt of many wordes, Be no tellere of talis but trewe to thi lord. O, wiste a man how many maladyes Folwen of exce e and of glotonyes, He wolde been the more me sur able Of his diete, sittinge at his table. The mensuration. measurably (mezh'ur-a-bli), adv . 1. In a mea- surable manner. - 2. Moderately; in a limited degree. She yafe answare fulle softe and demurely, With-oute of chaungyng of coloure or corage Noo thyng in haste, but mesurably . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 60. Wine measurably drunk and in season bringeth gladne of the heart. Ecclus. xxx i. 28. measure (mezh'ur), n. [ mesure = Pr. mesura , mensura = Pg. mesura , mensura = It. misura , Sp. mesura = L. mensura, a measuring, measure, a thing to measure by, volume, or other mete1 .] 1. A unit or standard adopted to de- termine the linear dimensions, volume, quantity of other objects, by the comparison of them with it; a standard for the determination of a unit of reckoning. Measures of length are either line-measures or end-measures. Line-measures are ob- jects having lines marked upon them, between which it is intended that the measurement shall be made; end-mea- sures are objects (bars) between the ends of which it is intended that the measurement shall be made. A perfect and just measure shalt thou have. Who hath.. Deut. xxv. 15. comprehended the dust of the earth in Isa. xl. 12. A tailor With his shears and measure in his hand. Shak ., K. John, iv. 2. 196. of time but what has divided the whole length of its du ration into apparently equal portions by constantly re- peated periods. Locke , Human Understanding, II. xiv. 18. 2. Hence, any standard of comparison, estima- tion, or judgment. ance schal faile. Some, valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 453. nominations or units of length, surface, vol- 3. A system of measurement; a scheme of de- ume, or the like: as, weights and measures ; long measure , square measure , etc. Arbuthnot , Ancient Coins. Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop,... And therewithal took measure of my body. mesurabel, A measurable function. measure 7. Used absolutely, a full or sufficient quantity. [Rare.] I'll never pause again, never stand still, Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, Or fortune given me measure of revenge. Shak., 3 Hen. VL, ii. 3. 32. 8. Quantity, amount, extent, or any dimension, as measured or meted out; the result of any mensural determination or rule: as, the mea sure of or for the beams is 10 feet 4 inches; full or short measure. In many technical uses mea sure has specific applications, according to the particular case involved. Thus, in printing, the measure of a line, page, or column is its width stated in ems. running over, shall men give into your bosom. Good measure, pre ed down, and shaken together, and Luke vi. 38. 9. Moderation; just degree or proportion; reasonable bounds or limits: as, beyond measure; within measure. We should keep a measure in all things. Latimer, Misc. Sel. Measure is a merry mean, as this doth shew, Not too high for the pye, nor too low for the crow. Heywood's Proverbs (ed. 1562). ( Hazlitt .) Shak ., Much Ado, ii. 1. 74. There is a measure in everything. 10. Degree; proportion; indefinite quantity. Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest Ps. lxxx. 5. them tears to drink in great measure. If you will fish for a Carp, you must put on a very large measure of patience. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 145. There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confe ion. Jer. Taylor . It is not in human nature to deceive others for any long time without in a measure deceiving ourselves also. 11. In pros .: (a) Determination of rhythm by division into times or groups of times; rhythm, as so determined; meter. In ancient prosody the unit of measure is the primary time or mora. See moral. ( b ) A group of times or syllables used to determine the length of a colon, period, or meter. In ancient prosody the meapestic rhythms were as a rule measured by dipodies, sure was sometimes a single foot (monopody), and sometimes a pair of feet (dipody). Iambic, trochaic, and an a other meters by monopodies. The measure was marked as such by beating time, the secondary ictus of a dipody not receiving the beat. According to the number of measures contained in it, a meter was designated as mono me ter, dimeter , trimeter , etc., and these terms are those still in use for modern poetry, some writers, however, counting every foot a measure. J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 125. Meeter and measure is all one, for what the Greekes call μέτρον, the Latines call Mensura, and is but the quantitie of a verse, either long or short. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 55. (c) A rhythmical period or meter, especially as determined by division into such groups; a rhythm, line, or verse. movement accords with a serious and elevated purpose. 12. In music: (a) One of the groups of tones or of accents included between any two pri- mary or heavy accents or beats. A measure al- ways begins with such a primary accent, and includes one or two (or even more) secondary accents, with various pos- sible le er accents. Most rhythms may be reduced to accent or one primary and two secondary accents, the for- measures having either one primary and one secondary mer rhythm being called duple and the latter triple . Mea- sures are indicated in printed music by bars, one of which is placed before each primary accent. All the notes be- tween two bars are said to belong to the same measure or bar. The e ential structure of the measures in a given piece of music is indicated at the beginning by the rhyth- mical signature. See signature. (b) Same as tempo . [Rare.]-13. Any regulated ted or graceful mo- tion; especially, motion adjusted to musical time. Long, stately, and swelling measures, whose graver E. C. Stedman , Vict. Poets, p. 93. Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 757. ment. 14. A slow, stately dance or dance-move- Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, cientry. mannerly-modest, as a measure , full of state and an Shak ., Much Ado, ii. 1. 77. My dancing - well, I know what our usher said to me last time I was at the school. Would I might have led Philautia in the measures! B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar - "Now tread we a measure ! " said young Loch in var. Scott , Marmion, v. 12. with a view to the accomplishment of a purpose; edas means to an end; anything devised or done 15. A determinate action or procedure, intend- specifically, in later use, any course of action proposed or adopted by a government, or a bill introduced into a legislature: as, measures (that is, a bill or bills) for the relief of the poor; a Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. Shak ., Macbeth, iii. 4. 11. wise measure ; rash measures . The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ponent of some given ratio being a umed as unity. See ratio . Measure of capacity, dry or liquid measure. - Measure of curvature. See curvature. Measure of solidity. Same as cubic measure. Metric measures. See metric system , under metric3. - Net measure. See net . Out of measure, out of proportion; disproportion- 16. pl . In geol ., a set or series of beds, as in coal- ately; immoderately; exce ively. measures, the a emblage of strata in which the coal of any particular region occurs.-17. In fencing , the distance of one fencer from an- other at which the one can just reach the other by lunging. To come into measure is to approach an opponent near enough to reach him with the sword-tip by thrusting and lunging. - Above or beyond measure, to an indefinitely great degree or extent; exceedingly. And his Lond dure the in very brede 4 Monethes ior- neyes and in leng the out of measure. Mandeville , Travels, p. 277. Martin having rejoiced above measure in the abundance of light. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 3. Small measure, in some parts of the United States, a measure containing a quarter of a peck, used especially in marketing for dry vegetables. Square measure, the ordinary system of units for measuring and expre ing areas, including the acre and rood and the squares of the units of the ordinary long measure. (See land - measure.) The acre is 10 square chains, or 100,000 square links. - To take the measure of, to observe narrowly so as to form a judgment concerning. - Winchester measure. See bushell, 1.- Within measure, within bounds. With measuret, fully. Absolute measure. See absolute . - Angular measure, the system of units employed for measuring angles. It is based on the measurement of the circumference of a circle described with the vertex of the angle as its center. The circumference is regarded as divided into 360 equal parts called degrees ; a right angle is thus the angle sub- tended at the center by the fourth part of the circumfer- ence, or is 90 degrees. The table is: 60 seconds (60') = 1 minute (1') 60 minutes = 1 degree (1°) IMG:content-0378.png:[blocks in formation] -Barren measures. See barren . - Binary measure. See binary .-Cartes i an measure of force. See Carte- sian.Circular measure. (a) A system of measure- ment used in trigonometry, in which the unit is the angle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius- namely, 57° 17′ 44′′.8+. (b) Same as angular measure. Cloth-measure, the standard system of lineal units employed in measuring cloth. The table is: Yard. Quarters. Nails. Inches. 1 = 4 = 16 = 36 1 IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] 10 quarters. The approximate capacity of the imperial (British legal) bushel is 2,218.192 cubic inches; of the Win- chester (United States legal) bushel, 2,150.42 cubic inches. (See apothecaries ' measure.) The United States bushel is thus equivalent to.96946 British bushel. - Gravitation measure of force. See gravitation . -Greatest com- mon measure of two or more numbers or quantities, the greatest number or quantity which divides each of them without a remainder. - Heaped measure. See heap , v. t. -Imperfect measure. See imperfect . In a measure, to some extent.-Lineal or linear measure. See long measure , below. - Liquid measure, the system of units ordinarily used in measuring liquids. The table is: Gallon. Quarts. Pints. Gills. 4 = 8 = 32 1 = 2 = 8 IMG:content-0380.png:[blocks in formation] He cannot but with measure fit the honours Which we devise him. measure (mezh'ur), v .; pret. and pp. measured , ppr. measuring . [ mesuren , mesurer = Pr. Sp. mesurar = Pg. mensurar , mesurar = It. misurare , mensura , measure: see measure , n. Cf. mensuration .] I. trans. 1. To ascertain the length, extent, dimensions, quantity, or capa- city of by comparison with a standard; ascer- tain or determine a quantity by exact obser- vation. To measure a length, a standard of length is em- ployed; this is laid down so that its beginning coincides with the beginning of the length to be measured, and its other end is marked; it is then laid down again in the same way, with its first end where its last end previously came, and so on, counting the number of times down. Finally, if there remains a length le than that of the standard, this is measured by subdividing the length using one of these as a secondary standard. Measurements of the standard into a sufficient number of equal parts, and 3. To estimate or determine the relative ex- tent, greatne , or value of; appraise by com- parison with something else: with by before the standard of comparison. In all which the king measured and valued things ami e, as afterwards appeared. Bacon , Hist. Hen. VII., p. 45. Who is ther almost that measures wisdom by simplicity, strength by suffering, dignity by lowline ? Milton , Church-Government, ii. 1. Measuring merit by adventitious circumstances of great- Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. 4. To bring into comparison or competition; oppose or set against as equal or as a test of equality: with with . Their pleasaunt tunes they sweetly thus applyde;... With that the rolling sea them fitly answered; And on the rocke the waves breaking aloft A solemn Meane [tenor] unto them measured . All start at once: Oileus led the race; The next Uly es, measuring pace with pace. He was compelled to measure his genius with that of the greatest captain of the age. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. Thou hast measured much grownd, And wandred, I wene, about the world round. Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. IMG:content-0381.png:[blocks in formation] Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. The rest, no portion left That may disgrace his art, or disappoint Large expectation, he disposes neat measurele (mezh'ūr-les), a. [ measure + -le .] Without measure; unlimited; immea- surable. What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed and shut up In measurele content. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 1. 17. measurele ne (mezh'ūr-les-nes), n. The state or quality of being unmeasured, or inc a- pable of being measured; immoderatene . George Eliot . Yards. Feet. 1760 = 5280 660 7920 16 = 198 3 = 36 1 = 12 IMG:content-0382.png:[blocks in formation] 8. To allot or distribute by measure; app or- tion; mete: often with out . With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Mat. vii. 2. Of Eight great Hours, Time measures out the Sands; And Europe's Fate in doubtful Balance stands. Prior, Letter to Boileau Despreaux, 1704. The world's bright eye, Time's measurer , begun Through watery Capricorn his course to run. Howell , Poem-Royal to His Majesty, Jan., 1641. Specifically- ( a ) One whose occupation or duty it is to measure land, commodities in market, etc. (b) One who measures work on a building as a basis for contractors' prices. (c) Formerly, an officer in the city of London who measured woolen cloths, coals, etc. Also called a meter. See alnager . (d) An instrument or apparatus used in measuring. (e) In entom ., a measuring-worm. measuring-chain (mezh'ür-ing-chan), n . The surveyors' chain, containing 100 links of 7.92 inches each (Gunter's chain), or 100 links of 1 foot each. See chain and link . measuring-faucet (mezh'ūr-ing-fa"set), n. faucet, or a contrivance performing the func- tions of a faucet, designed to measure the amount of a liquid pa ing through it. Such faucets are used in delivering liquids in bulk, in putting them up in cans, etc. A 3678 The kynge Arthur hym asked whan that was don, and he seide, "Seth yesterday after mete . " mechanic The mill it is a meatrif place. Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 202). gauze or perforated zinc. measuring-funnel el (mezh'ūr-ing-fun"el), n . funnel with a valve to close the close the nozle, fitted ploring party. [Local.] - A meal's meat. See m with a graduated scale indicating the quantity of liquid contained in it.