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Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

rds in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only. -- Half-breadth plan (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines. -- Half cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant. -- Half cap, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] Shak. -- A half co…

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

A hand's breadth; four inches. [Obs.] Knap the tongs together about a handful from the bottom. Bacon.

Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous. Hairbreadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach. Shak.

Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four- inch plank. Inch stuff, boards, etc., sawed one inch thick.

A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth.

cular arrangement of flat, single plaits, each plait being folded so as to cover half the breadth of the preceding one.

tly over another. -- To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing. Weale.

Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. Sir H. Wotton.

The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.

That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.

Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Linear differential (Math.), an equation which is of the first degree, when the expression which is equated to zero is regarded as a function of the dependent variable and its differential coefficients. -- Linear equatio…

Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense. Sir H. Wotton. The longitude of their cloaks. Sir. W. Scott. Mine [shadow] spindling into longitude immense. Cowper.

That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.

diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.

An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.