measure

I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.

Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend.

It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.

a measure of salt

City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.

The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.

The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight).

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

the greatest common measure of two or more numbers

coal measures; lead measures

He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar,— / "Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.

a poem in iambic measure

The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El Salvador will be quarantined for 30 days..

The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.