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A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

The thousandish part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.

Of great bulk or consequence; very important. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

See Moslem.

Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.

, An extreme member or part of a thing; a limb. [Obs.] Fuller.

To climb over. Surrey.

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido.

To swell, as grain or wood with water. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

ously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. "Postliminious after applications of them to their purposes." South.

Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

In a preliminary manner.

Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.

To limit previously. [R.]