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A fruit bat, especially the large species (Pieropus vulgaris) inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings.
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A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
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To treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with; as, to urge an ore with intense heat.
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A poetical division of verse, consisting of three measures.
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One who advocates extreme measures; an ultraist; an extremist; a radical.
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The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like.
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A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
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An advocate of sanitary measures; one especially interested or versed in sanitary measures.
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Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain.
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Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish; as, an unwise man; unwise kings; unwise measures.
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Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
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Going beyond others, or beyond due limit; extreme; fanatical; uncompromising; as, an ultra reformer; ultra measures.
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One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
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One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.
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Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
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To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
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Consisting of three poetical measures.
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The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary measures; hygiene.
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A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.
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Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures.
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