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Amount; quantity; extent.

g, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

The quantity that a box contain.

A curved mark [ ] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

The quantity brewed at once. A brewing of new beer, set by old beer. Bacon.

A small quantity of air or gas within a liquid body; as, bubbles rising in champagne or aërated waters.

losed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.…

A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.

An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.

ogether, as two surfaces of metal (Engin.), to fuse and unite them by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time;…

A quantity that fills a bushel measure; as, a heap containing ten bushels of apples.

A butyrate of glycerin; a fat contained in small quantity in milk, which helps to give to butter its peculiar flavor.

The whole collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

entials. The problems are primarily of this form: to find how the change in some variable quantity alters at each instant the value of a quantity dependent upon it. -- Exponential calculus, that part of algebra which treats of exponents. -- Imaginary calculus, a method of investigating the relations of real or imagin…

ime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to request. "Whenever the coach stopped, the sailor called for more ale." Marryat. -- To call on, To call upon, (a) To make a short visit to; as, call on a fri…

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

The quantity contained in a cask.

of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

That which is caught or taken; profit; gain; especially, the whole quantity caught or taken at one time; as, a good catch of fish. Hector shall have a great catch if he knock out either of your brains. Shak.