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About
adverb · 78% connection
In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Acre
noun · 78% connection
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Are
noun · 78% connection
The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Barleycorn
noun · 78% connection
Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Bolt
noun · 78% connection
A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Centare
noun · 78% connection
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Counterbrace
verb · 78% connection
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Finger
noun · 78% connection
The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domesti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Fortieth
noun · 78% connection
One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Grade
noun · 78% connection
The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Greencloth
noun · 78% connection
A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Hair'sbreadth
unknown · 78% connection
The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Hectolitre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Hectometre
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Heer
noun · 78% connection
A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Inc
noun · 78% connection
A Japanese measure of length equal to about two and one twelfth yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
Inch
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, length, eighth, part, mile.
