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Almude
noun · 78% connection
A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Alnager
noun · 78% connection
A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Anglemeter
noun · 78% connection
An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
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 qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Boll
noun · 78% connection
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Checkerberry
noun · 78% connection
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Clione
noun · 78% connection
A genus of naked pteropods. One species (Clione papilonacea), abundant in the Arctic Ocean, constitutes a part of the food of the Gree…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Commensurable
adjective · 78% connection
Having a common measure; capable of being exactly measured by the same number, quantity, or measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Commensurate
adjective · 78% connection
Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
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, estimate, incorrectly.
Drum
noun · 78% connection
The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Estimate
verb · 78% connection
To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic (money), or intrinsic (moral), value; to fi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Fresco
adjective · 78% connection
In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Gauge
verb · 78% connection
To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
Hara-kiri
noun · 78% connection
Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
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, estimate, incorrectly.
Homer
noun · 78% connection
A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry mea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: measure, estimate, incorrectly.
