- 2. Resource, appliance, expedient, shift, step, measure.
- 3. Revenue, income, resources, the wherewithal, ways and means, substance, estate, property.
Mean-spirited, a. Base, low, beggarly, vile, grovelling, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, base- minded, cowardly, timid.
Meantime, Meanwhile, ad. In the mean time, in the interim.
Measles, n. pl. Rubeola.
Measurable, a.
- 1. Mensurable.
- 2. Moderate, temperate.
Measure, n.
- 1. Standard (of measurement).
- 2. Rule, gauge.
- 3. Extent.
- 4. Limit, determined length.
- 5. Allotment, share, due proportion.
- 6. Moderation, just degree.
- 7. Degree, indefinite quantity.
- 8. Means to an end, step.
- 9. Metre.
Measure, v. a.
- 1. Mete.
- 2. Estimate, appraise, judge of, appreciate, value, gauge.