proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches, hectares, square miles; square inches, square yards, square centimeters, square meters, yards (clothing) &c; ares, arpents^. Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample; widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c (infinite) 105; shoreless^, trackless, pathless; extended.

It is found that it is not usually advantageous to build kilns of over 160 to 180 cubic meters in capacity.

Stanyhurst in the Dedication to his translation of Virgil (1582), like E. K., is concerned with style rather than matter, and of course primarily with the revival of classical meters, a subject already so thoroughly investigated that it need not be gone into here.

38.132 140 turns 38.130 On comparing the scale with the standard meter, the temperature being 16°.5 C., 140 divisions were found to = 139.462mm.

There are three principal meters to be found in Chaucer's verse.

Mandalay, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, Danny Deever, show what spirited verse can be fashioned from a common ballad meter and a bold use of dialect.

His faulty meters and careless expressions are improved, while his vigorous way of stating things and his rolling rhetoric are easily comprehended.

The wood used is cut about one and a fifth meters long.

HYPER means Over: as, hyper-critical, over-critical; hyper-meter, over measure.

Imperfect meters, and poetic structures not orthodox, may disturb those who deal in criticism, but such limitations as these are not sufficient to fix the final acceptance of a poem.

With the assistance of a cord of lianas tied together, and rods placed in a line, we found its breadth five hundred and eighty-five brazas or nine hundred and seventy-seven meters, (in the broadest part it might be a little over one thousand meters); and the length, as computed from some imperfect observations, one thousand and seven brazas (sixteen hundred and eighty meters), consequently less than one square mile.

One of the best of these is the "Battle of Agincourt," a ballad written in the lively meter which Tennyson used with some variations in the "Charge of the Light Brigade," and which shows the old English love of brave deeds and of the songs that stir a people's heart in memory of noble ancestors.

" "What lovely meter you write!" praised Polly.

"Oh, never mindgo farther onanylong meter," uttered his interlocutor, and he forthwith made a sanguine dash into the centre of the book, and gave out a hymn.

An now we will sing inti de 40-elebent him de particlarest meter.

But suppose one meter should be moving very slowly, and so retaining contact for some time, while other meters were working rapidly; the armature at D would then be held up to the magnet by the prolonged contact maintained by the slow moving meter, and so prevent the quick working meters from actuating it; and they would therefore pass the contact points without recording.

As almost every one with claims to respectability, and certainly every one without any, keeps a consul, it follows that there is one consul per superficial meter, arshin, or cubit of Ezekiel within the city.

It should be noticed that the poem employs the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.

My sonmyown" Immovable there, her arms flung up and tears so heavy that they rolled whole from her face down to the black grenadine, she was as sonorous as the tragic meter of an Alexandrine line; she was like Ruth, ancestress of heroes and progenitor of kings.

He should choose a subject he can handle; he should plan it so that it be unified and coherent, and have each element in the right place; he should choose words in good use, and write in an appropriate meter.

Si me dejarás meter baza.... DOÑA MATILDE.

His electrometers and electric meters, his sounding apparatus, and his mariners' compass are all well-known and highly valued instruments.

elegiacs &c adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.

" Thereat Rose struck up a familiar ballad-meter of a catching rhythm, and every voice of young and old was soon joining in it: "Behold a silly, tender Babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas!