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A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.] W. Black. Blackmore.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant. Shak.

A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct. -- Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

The art of measuring crystals.

The art of measuring circles.

Reckless mischief; the action of a dare-devil.

The worship of demons.

The art or profession of a dentist; dental surgery.

Diabolical conduct; malignant mischief; devilry. C. Reade.

An extinct eocene bird from New Mexico, larger than the ostrich.

A dioptre.

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met"ric (#), a. --Do*sim"e*trist (#), n.

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.

That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

The art or process of making electrical measurements.

r passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking.

Am entrance. [Obs.] So great an entryng and so large. Chaucer.