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Labor :: Labor (n.) A measure of land in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to an area of 177/ acres..

Energetical :: Energetical (a.) Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws..

Circulation :: Circulation (n.) The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper..

Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day

Line :: Line (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.

Baric :: Baric (a.) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Doggerel :: Doggerel (a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes..

Strike :: Strike (n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality..

Mismeasurement :: Mismeasurement (n.) Wrong measurement.

Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..

Mensural :: Mensural (a.) Of or pertaining to measure.

Hide :: Hide (n.) A measure of land, common in Domesday Book and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres..

Bushel :: Bushel (n.) A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples..

Extent :: Extent (n.) Degree; measure; proportion.

Bath :: Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure..

Bulse :: Bulse (n.) A purse or bag in which to carry or measure diamonds, etc..

Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..

Commensurate :: Commensurate (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities..

Dynameter :: Dynameter (n.) An instrument for determining the magnifying power of telescopes, consisting usually of a doubleimage micrometer applied to the eye end of a telescope for measuring accurately the diameter of the image of the object glass there formed; which measurement, compared with the actual diameter of the glass, gives the magnifying power..

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