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Show ME meafure: as, a meafe of herrings is fiv And wealthy births confefs the floods embrace Blackmore Law is a bottomlefs pit : John Bull was flattere v ab laf no l wo fui hi th s ye la th b a year; yet ten long years did Hocus fteer hi al an la th o r nd me th al caufe throu Arbutbnot the courts Ainfworth hundred. ME'ASLES. #. /. [morbilli, Latin. 1. Meales are a critical eruption in a fever, well known in the common pracQuincy tice My lung Coin'words till their decay, againft thofe meaffes n W r d a m r [ ad U R N Mea ing; flexuous ME ANING. 7. /. [from mean. 1. Purpofe; intention Which we difdain fhould tetter us, yet fec Shakefp. Coriolanus The very way to catch them Before the plague of London, inflammations o the lungs were rife and mortal, as likewife th Arbuthnot meafles if there be any good mean Shake[peare's King Lear ing towards you 2. Habitual intention 2 Some whofe meaning hath at firft been fair Grow knaves by ufe, and rebels by défpair Rofcommon 3 The fenfe; the thing underflood Thefe loft the fenfe their learning to-difplay e Po y aw t qu ni me th n' la ex f th An No word more frequently in' the mouths of ‘me fo i is i o ni me th an e en fc co tha meafure underftood Savift 4. Senfe power of thinking He was not fpiteful though he wrote a fatyr For fill there goes fome meaning to ill-nature Dryden -True no meaning puzzles more than wit. Lope Mz aNLY. adv [from mean. e g d e g .i no l t r d 1. M Dr Metcalfe mafte of St. John's College, man meanly learned himfelf but:not meanl affec tioned to fet forward learning in others. - Alcham In the reign of Domitian, poetry was but meanl cultivated, ‘bt painting eminertly‘flourifhed Dryden's Dufrefnoy 2. Without dignity; poorly Tt was the winter wild "‘While the heay'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton The Perfian: frate will not endure a kin Denbam's Sophy So meanly born 3. Withou roufly greatnefs of mind ungene Prior 4. Without refpect Our kindred, and our very names fomethin defirable in them w have others think meanly of them feem to hav canno bear t Watts's Logick MEe aNNESS. 7. /. [from mean. 3. Want of excellence y r v p l i g d o 2 No other nymphs have title to mens hearts e l V s r p i p h e r l f n a m e But as t Poverty, and meannefs of condition, expofe th wifeft to {corn, it being natural for men to plac o g th a gr g i t o u he ra e t e i th South 3 Lownefs of mind The name of fervants has been reckoned to im ply a certain meanncfs of mind, as well as lownefs o condition South 4. Sordidnefs; niggardlinefs a m Z o f p r p a r p T Mza By Silvia if thy charming felf be neant If friendfhip be thy virgin vows extent O! let me in Aminta's praifes join Her's my efteem fhall be, my paflion thine. Prior Mgease. #. /. [probably a corruption o Till either death hath clos'd thefe eyes of nige ME ASLED. adj. [from meafles. W Sswift a fuc and.in feafon, bringet Eccluf xxxi. 28 . f. [mefure, Fr. menjura 1. That by which any thing is meafured A taylor's news Who ftood with fhears and megfure in his hand Standing on flippers, which his nimble haft Told of many a thoufand. Shakefpeare's King Fobun and denominate capacity, ferves to meafure the capacioufnefs of an othe Holder veflel 2 Cors x, 1 Tilltf man like ourfelves Degree; quantity 1 have laid down, in fome meafure, the defer tion of the old-world. Abbor's Deferip. of the Ww 2. Moderate; in {mall quantity Mz ASURABLENESS. 7. /. [from meafurg be meaable.] Quality of admittint fured ME AsSURABLY. adv. [from meafurable. Moderately of know to us, a meafur t mon meafures of ‘humanity, but an example of Scab God's eternal duration is permanent and invifible, not meafurable by time and motion, nor t be computed by number of fucceflive moments Bentley's Sermons A concave meafure diftribute Qught, not furpafling human meafure, fay. Mily Hudibras ‘may almit of computation ME'ASURE Lat. hat Our religion fets before us not the example o a ftupid ftoick, who had, by obftinate principl hardened himfelf againft all pain beyond the eon. ME aSURABLE. adj. [trom meafure. meafured to the meafure of th If elfe thou feek'f To eafe her againft the ftump b Go without 6ur ,,,m of thing boaf reach even unto you Laft trotted forth the gentle fwine ma no accordin bu whic Infecte Mz asLy. adj. [from meafless bed with the meafles And difmally was heard to whine All as the ferubb'd her meafly' rump wil There is a great meafure of difcretion to be ufe in the performance of confeflion, fo that you yo neither-omit ‘it when your own heart may tel ‘that *there is fomething amifs, nor over ferup loufly purfue it when you are ‘ot conftious Taylr yourfelf of notable failings The rains -were but preparatory in fomemeafir; and the violerice and'confummation of the delig: upon'the difruption of thegreat abyfs Burnet's Theurj depende 8. Proportionate time; mufical time. Amargllis breathes thy fecret pains And thy fond heart beats meafure to thy ftrains Prit 9. Motion harmonically regulated My legs can keep'no meafure in delight f gri i p ke fu me n r he po m e W Therefore no dancing, girl, fome other fport. Shakefprar As when the frars in their w@thereal race At length have roll'd around the liquid fpace From thefame point of heav'n their courfe advance And.move in meafures of their former dance, Dry This fenfeis, Lbe lo. A ftately dance lieve obfolete Wooing wedding and repenting, is a5 a SCTQ" fu‘» (fird th pac u cin jig, a meafure and hot and hafty like a Scatch jig, and "full as farmannerly modeft as a m Jure, full of ftate and anchentry Shakefpear taftical ‘th weddin All magnitudes are capable of being meafured but it is the application of one to another whic Now are our browsbound with vi&orioys wreatls Our ftern alarms chang'd to merry mcetng Holder Shakefpear makes aétual meafure Whe Mofe f{peaks of meafures, for example of an ephah, he prefumes they knew what meafur he meant: that he himfelf was fkilled in weight and meafures, arithmetick and geometry, there i Arbuthnot on Coins no reafon to doubt 2. The rule by which any thing is adjufted or proportioned He lived accordin cuftoms, and meafure to mature, the other:by il ‘taken by other mens eye and tongues Shakifp me fai mcafur And ever As e'er in meafled pork was hatched On rump of juftice as of cow fhort Ley thy goodnefs ? life will be tooKin To matc Thou vermin wretched Thou tail of worfhip, that doft gro : Good Kent, how fhall Tlive and wor with the meafles a Sbakl portion allotted Allotment 6 Mortimer's Hufb Had falfely thruft upon contrary feet o k o f n a m o e t e g ' e f n m T ledge to do other things, ftandeth in this place a e a P o m C o r f o o w t w e n r f Hooker hath nothing to do This figure is of a later date by the meannefs o Addifon on Italy the workmanthip T'll never paufe again Jure by being fcorched with the fun Suc Sbakq[‘bwr:';"}i;g;:lb The table round 5 Sufficient quantity B. Fonfon's Difcovery Wine meafurably drank gladnefs of the heart Would you meanly thus tel On power, you know, I muft obey Be large in mirth, anon we'll drin Fruit-bearers are often infeéted with the meafles 1 as, a "'mfiwc; quantity 4. A ftate wine 3. A difeafe of trees nze e ot l ap wh y ma b fe ab tremel ed en in e ne t ig Al Go c wh i t ing nature, or its meafures of punifhment ; yet th o I::il fuch a law Or fortune given me meafure of revenge Qne, when he had an unlucky old grange, woul needs fell it, and proclaimed the virtues of it Ed‘vfl excefles as defeéts are oppofite 1 enter not into the particulars of the hw" nothing ever thrived on it, no owner of it eve died in his bed ; the fwine died of the meafles, an ex ‘it is a wor however that thing be available to any end, 'wfiich"eir 5 o ort pro t an o eun the proportionabl A difeafe of fwine the ‘fheep of the rot The meaning, not the name, I call: forthou Lo f ad Pa ' to Mi e ni e mu th o No aelthe every thing is for fome end cauf = The vallies fmile, and with their flow'ry face T am no honeft man ME ME Taylor c u a m u t g l d t h r m u Our dread 11 Moderation; not exceis O love, be moderate h c e th n fe jo th g ve In meafur lef i a ‘ ng fi bl th c m to fe I expe&, from thofe that judge by firft fight an rafh meafures, tobe thought fond or infolent Glanwille's Scepfis 3. Proportion; quantity fettled Meafure'is that which perfeéteth all things, be / : » b r M e a p e a S For fear I furfeit Hell hdth enlarged herfelf, an fenl mouth without meafure 1z. Limit 1 God's goodnefs is the meafure of "his providence More allay thy ecftafy boundary Inthe fame ie0 Mérpo Q0 pHéTPO T el évian Qexatdosc 'rgmfr?m o p d a i v p n d B n K u " 'Apx§[4as TeTOIT a d e n m o k t Lord make ‘m Jure of my days what it is, that I.ma frail I am 33,.5 |
