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particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water. If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A d…

table pitch to work with another wheel; specifically, one of a pair of cogwheels of equal size.

An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like. False ells and measures be brought all clean adown. R. of Gloucester.

The extent, size, capacity, amount. or quantity ascertained by measuring; as, its measurement is five acres.

A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.

An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.

One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.

Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.

rchandise; as, the merchant service. Merchant bar, Merchant iron or steel, certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars. -- Merchant service, the mercantile marine of a country. Am. Cyc. -- Merchant ship, a ship employed in commerce. -- Merchant tailor, a tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments…

Having teeth of moderate size.

gnetic iron. -- Metallic paper, paper covered with a thin solution of lime, whiting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced. -- Metallic tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.…

An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. Knight.

A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.

One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.

Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town of but middling size." Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty famine." Luke xv.

anied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.