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An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.

The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.

The art of measuring altitudes, or heights.

Good against mephitic or deletplwious gases. -- n.

One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

A modification of the quadrant, for measuring small angles. [Obs.]

Advertisement. [Obs.]

The time to go to bed. Shak.

Formerly; aforetime. [They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter.

Resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Give not shus the countertime to fate. Dryden.

The time during which there is daylight, as distinguished from the night.

) A light and pleasing composition.