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Decilitre :: Decilitre (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces..

Precaution :: Precaution (n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident..

Sextile :: Sextile (a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.

Prose :: Prose (n.) The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition..

Litre :: Litre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints..

Radian :: Radian (n.) An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc..

Abolitionism :: Abolitionism (n.) The principles or measures of abolitionists.

Measure :: Measure (n.) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.

Cambistry :: Cambistry (n.) The science of exchange, weight, measures, etc..

Poem :: Poem (n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton..

Ferding :: Ferding (n.) A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only.

Meteyard :: Meteyard (n.) A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure..

Solar :: Solar (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year..

Gage :: Gage (v. t.) To measure. See Gauge, v. t..

Ordinate :: Ordinate (n.) The distance of any point in a curve or a straight line, measured on a line called the axis of ordinates or on a line parallel to it, from another line called the axis of abscissas, on which the corresponding abscissa of the point is measured..

Tenthmetre :: Tenthmetre (n.) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter..

Full :: Full (n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems..

Foot :: Foot (n.) A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.

Sagene :: Sagene (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet.

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