Mete










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Mete \Mete\, n.
Meat. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Mete \Mete\, v. t. & i.
To meet. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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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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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Mete \Mete\, v. i.
To measure. [Obs.] --Mark iv. 24.
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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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mete
n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line,
border, borderline, delimitation, mete]
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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,
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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



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