space rule

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. [1913 Webster]

Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

2.Place, having more or less extension; room. [1913 Webster]

They gave him chase, and hunted him as hare; Long had he no space to dwell [in].— R. of Brunne.[1913 Webster]

While I have time and space.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

3.A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. [1913 Webster]

Put a space betwixt drove and drove.— Gen. xxxii. 16.[1913 Webster]

4.Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." --R. of brunne. [1913 Webster]

Nine times the space that measures day and night.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance.— Tillotson.[1913 Webster]

5.A short time; a while. [R.] "To stay your deadly strife a space." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

6.Walk; track; path; course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

This ilke [same] monk let old things pace, And held after the new world the space.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

7.(Print.) (a) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. (b) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books, on a computer screen, etc. [1913 Webster]

Note: Spaces are of different thicknesses to enable the compositor to arrange the words at equal distances from each other in the same line. [1913 Webster]

8.(Mus.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. [1913 Webster]

9.that portion of the universe outside the earth or its atmosphere; -- called also outer space. [PJC]

Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc.

deep space, the part of outer space which is beyond the limits of the solar system.

Space line (Print.), a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance from each other, and for other purposes; a lead. --Hansard.

Space rule (Print.), a fine, thin, short metal rule of the same height as the type, used in printing short lines in tabular matter. [1913 Webster]