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[syn: boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\, n.
Meat. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\, v. t. & i.
To meet. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\, v. i. & t. [imp. Mette; p. p. Met.] [AS.
m?tan.]
To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.]
"I mette of him all night." --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meted; p. pr. & vb.
n. Meting.] [AS. metan; akin to D. meten, G. messen, OHG.
mezzan, Icel. meta, Sw. m[aum]ta, Goth. mitan, L. modus
measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Gr. ? to rule, ?
a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E.
measure, L. metiri to measure; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure.
[root]99. Cf. Measure, Meet, a., Mode.]
To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule
or standard; to measure.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\, v. i.
To measure. [Obs.] --Mark iv. 24.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mete \Mete\, n. [AS. met. See Mete to measure.]
Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and
in the phrase metes and bounds.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mete
n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line,
border, borderline, delimitation, mete]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "mete":
accord, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion,
appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow,
bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter,
communicate, compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse,
dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole,
dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out,
gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, graduate,
grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have,
measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace,
parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, plumb, portion out,
pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain,
rate, render, serve, share out, shell out, shower, size, size up,
slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading,
tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield