mete

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mete
    n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: {boundary line},
         {border}, {borderline}, {delimitation}, {mete}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\, n.
   Meat. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\, v. t. & i.
   To meet. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\, v. i. & t. [imp. {Mette}; p. p. {Met}.] [AS.
   m?tan.]
   To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.]
   "I mette of him all night." --Chaucer.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\ (m[=e]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Meted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Meting}.] [AS. metan; akin to D. meten, G. messen, OHG.
   mezzan, Icel. meta, Sw. m[aum]ta, Goth. mitan, L. modus
   measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Gr. ? to rule, ?
   a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E.
   measure, L. metiri to measure; cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure.
   [root]99. Cf. {Measure}, {Meet}, a., {Mode}.]
   To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule
   or standard; to measure.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\, v. i.
   To measure. [Obs.] --Mark iv. 24.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mete \Mete\, n. [AS. met. See {Mete} to measure.]
   Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and
   in the phrase metes and bounds.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "mete":
      accord, administer, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apportion,
      appraise, appreciate, assay, assess, assign, award, bestow,
      bestow on, calculate, calibrate, caliper, check a parameter,
      communicate, compute, confer, deal, deal out, dial, disburse,
      dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, divide, dole,
      dole out, donate, estimate, evaluate, extend, fathom, fork out,
      gauge, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, graduate,
      grant, hand out, heap, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have,
      measure, measure out, mensurate, mete out, meter, offer, pace,
      parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, plumb, portion out,
      pour, present, prize, probe, proffer, quantify, quantize, rain,
      rate, render, serve, share out, shell out, shower, size, size up,
      slip, snow, sound, span, spoon out, step, survey, take a reading,
      tender, triangulate, valuate, value, vouchsafe, weigh, yield
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