Admeasure: Definition and part of speech

Admeasure

  1. v. t. Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.
  2. v. t. To measure.
  3. v. t. To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.
  4. v. t. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.