Word Meanings - ARSHINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

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• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• MEASURE
  The space between two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic
• INCHEST
  To put into a chest.
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• RUSSIAN CHURCH
  The established church of the Russian empire. It forms a portion, by far the largest, of the Eastern Church and is governed by the Holy Synod. The czar is the head of the church, but he has never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• MEASURED
  Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms. -- Meas"ured*ly, adv.
• LENGTH
  1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the
• RUSSIAN
  Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language. -- n.
• RUSSIANIZE
  To make Russian, or more or less like the Russians; as, to Russianize the Poles.
• MEASUREMENT
  1. The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required. 2. The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• WATER MEASURE
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel. Cowell.
• OVERMEASURE
  To measure or estimate too largely.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• PASSYMEASURE
  See SHAK
• PRUSSIAN
  Of or pertaining to Prussia. -- n.
• WATER MEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.