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Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate. [Obs.]

Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.

The science that is concerned with metempirics.

The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

terior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

enon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Meteoric.

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aërolite.

To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor. Evelyn.

An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.

Of or pertaining to meteorography.

The registration of meteorological phenomena.