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An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

A forceps with a measuring attachment for ascertaining the size of the fetal head.

An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.

eveling staff, a graduated rod or staff used in connection with a leveling instrument for measuring differences of level between points.

The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles.

ape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.

r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids. Liquid measure, a measure, or system of measuring, for liquids, by the gallon, quart, pint, gill, etc.

An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.

y species of land snail of the genus Truncatella; -- so called because it creeps like the measuring worms.

an instrument for measuring the intensity of light; a photometer.

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, o…

The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

Charge for, or price of, measuring. Simmonds.

An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.

An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water…