Word Meanings - MISMETER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Chaucer.

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• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• METERGRAM
  A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
• METERAGE
  The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• METER; METRE
  1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• METER
  1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• VERSEMONGER
  A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• VERSED
  Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced. Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. Milton. Opinions . . . derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• VERSE
  and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise, Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert, 1. A line consisting of a certain number
• WRONGNESS
  The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• WRONGHEADED
  Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• VACUOMETER
  An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PNEOMETER
  A spirometer.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• AUXOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
• ALGOMETER
  An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• ATMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• AZOTOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
• HODOMETER
  See ODOMETER
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.
• MISMETER
  To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Chaucer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• MICRONOMETER
  An instrument for noting minute portions of time.