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n. One who admeasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Aramaeus, Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. Arām, i. e. Highland, a name given to Syria and Mesopotamia. ] Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. A native of Aram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + smear. ] Smeared over. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A pie; baked food. [ Obs. ] Gen. xl. 17. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make mean; to lower. C. Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. berg mountain + mehl meal. ] (Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Besmeared p. pr. & vb. n. Besmearing. ] To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that besmears. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as blameworthy.
Syn. -- blameworthy, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. ground bones, used as a fertilizer or as a component in animal feed; -- it is high in phosphate content. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. Cadmeus, Gr. Kadmei^os, from Ka`dmos (L. Cadmus), which name perhaps means lit. a man from the East; cf. Heb. qedem east. ] Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- α, β, γ, δ, ε, ι, κ, λ, μ, ν, ο, π, ρ, σ, τ, υ. These are called Cadmean letters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus slew each other. Similar to a Pyhrric victory. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Commensurable. ] Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. [ 1913 Webster ]

She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had done. I. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To be commensurate with; to equal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Demeaned p. pr. & vb. n. Demeaning. ] [ OF. demener to conduct, guide, manage, F. se démener to struggle; pref. dé- (L. de) + mener to lead, drive, carry on, conduct, fr. L. minare to drive animals by threatening cries, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace. ] 1. To manage; to conduct; to treat. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Our ] clergy have with violence demeaned the matter. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To conduct; to behave; to comport; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have demeaned themselves
Like men born to renown by life or death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This sense is probably due to a false etymology which regarded the word as connected with the adjective mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. demene. See Demean, v. t. ] 1. Management; treatment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Vile demean and usage bad. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With grave demean and solemn vanity. West. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Demesne. ] 1. Demesne. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Resources; means. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

You know
How narrow our demeans are. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Demeanor. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also demeanour. ] [ For demeanure, fr. demean. See Demean, v. t. ] 1. Management; treatment; conduct. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Behavior; deportment; carriage; bearing; mien. [ 1913 Webster ]

His demeanor was singularly pleasing. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The men, as usual, liked her artless kindness and simple refined demeanor. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ AS. drop-m&aemacr_;lum; dropa drop + m&aemacr_;l portion. Cf. Piecemeal. ] By drops or small portions. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Bot.) Duckweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupt. for farce-meat, fr. F. farce stuffing. See Farce, n. ] (Cookery) Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [ Written also forced meat. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intended beforehand; premeditated. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The flesh of horses used as food.
Syn. -- horseflesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. -- n. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. im- not + L. meabilis passable, fr. meare to pass. ] Lack of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being immeasurable; immensurability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + measurable: cf. F. measurable. Cf. Immensurable, Unmeasurable. ] Incapable of being measured; indefinitely extensive; illimitable; immensurable; vast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of depth immeasurable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being immeasurable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an immeasurable manner or degree. “Immeasurably distant.” Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Immeasurable. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. im- not + permeability: cf. F. imperméabilité. ] The quality of being impermeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + permeable: cf. F. imperméable, L. impermeabilis. ] Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air. -- Im*per"me*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"me*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Meal a part, and cf. Piecemeal. ] A piece an inch long. [ 1913 Webster ]

By inchmeal, by small degrees; by inches. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Little by little; gradually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something done in the meantime; interlude. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intermeare, intermeatum; to go between; inter between + meare to go. ] A flowing between. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. irremeabilis; pref. ir- not + remeabilis returning, fr. remeare: cf. F. irréméable. See Remeant. ] Admitting no return; as, an irremeable way. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ See Limb, and Piecemeal. ] Piecemeal. [ Obs. ] “To tear her limbmeal.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sweetened beverage of lime juice and water. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus of American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.
Syn. -- genus Mammea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The speciaes name for the mammee tree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A wealthy person.
Syn. -- rich man, wealthy man. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To skulk; to cower. See Mich. [ 1913 Webster ]