Admeasure
to measure off or out; apportion.
nautical. to measure the dimensions and capacity of a vessel, as for official registration.
verb
to measure out (land, etc) as a share; apportion
(transitive) to determine the dimensions, capacity, weight, and other details of (a vessel), as for an official registration, doc-mentation, or yacht handicap rating
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the process of measuring. the number, dimensions, or measure of anything. . historical examples the vessel, then, in the plate is the vessel now mentioned, and the following is her admeasurement as given in by captain parrey. the history of the rise, progress and accomplishment of the thomas clarkson also, the admeasurement of a ship, […]
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a daughter of eurystheus for whom hercules took the golden girdle of ares from hippolyte.
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a thessalian king, one of the argonauts and husband of alcestis. historical examples this admetus did; and in this chariot he drove her back to his own kingdom of pheræ, where he made her his queen. g-ds and heroes r. e. francillon it is one thing that apollo should be employed by admetus, although he […]
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an aid; auxiliary. historical examples adminicle, ad-min′i-kl, n. anything that aids or supports: an auxiliary: (law) any corroboratory evidence. chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various noun (law) something contributing to prove a point without itself being complete proof