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dence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.

specially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.

A denomination of weight or measure. Specifically:

or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.

An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees. Glanvill.

Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]

Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.

To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a rather slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure; also, the music to the dance.

The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.

unity. -- Sine of an angle, in a circle whose radius is unity, the sine of the arc that measures the angle; in a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the given angle divided by the hypotenuse. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. -- Versed sine, that part of the diameter between the sine and the arc.…

A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

-- Slate clay (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of the alternating beds of the coal measures, consisting of an infusible compound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. -- Slate globe, a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material. -- Slate pencil, a…

Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

not shaded or variegated. -- Solid green. See Emerald green (a), under Green. -- Solid measure (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in solid measure, or a solid foot, contains 1,728 solid inches. -- Solid new…

In some degree or measure; a little. His giantship is gone, somewhat crestfallen. Milton. Somewhat back from the village street. Longfellow.