v. i. To measure. [ Obs. ] Mark iv. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Meat. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. met. See Mete to measure. ] Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To meet. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Meted; p. pr. & vb. n. Meting. ] [ AS. metan; akin to D. meten, G. messen, OHG. mezzan, Icel. meta, Sw. mäta, Goth. mitan, L. modus measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Gr. &unr_; to rule, &unr_; a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E. measure, L. metiri to measure; cf. Skr. mā to measure. √99. Cf. Measure, Meet, a., Mode. ] To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ imp. Mette p. p. Met. ] [ AS. m&unr_;tan. ] To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [ Obs. ] “I mette of him all night.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Pref. met- + empiric, -ical. ] (Metaph.) Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. [ 1913 Webster ]

If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science that is concerned with metempirics. [ 1913 Webster ]