Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1. (v.) To give out; to apportion. 2. (v. t. & i.) To meet. 3. (v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. 4. (v.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure. 5. (v. i.) To measure. 6. (n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.
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