Word Meanings - FOOTBREADTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.

Related words: (words related to FOOTBREADTH)

• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• 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
• 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
• FOOTBREADTH
  The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.
• 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.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• 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.
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• 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.
• 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.
• PASSYMEASURE
  See SHAK
• WATER MEASURER
  Any one of numerous species of water; the skater. See Skater, n., 2.
• ADMEASURER
  One who admeasures.
• HAIRBREADTH
  Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
• HANDBREADTH
  A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii.
• MISMEASURE
  To measure or estimate incorrectly.
• HAIRBREADTH; HAIR'SBREADTH
  The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16