604. M E A 
M E A 
Greek Meafures for Things dry, reduced to Eng lift Corn - 
meafure. Peck. Gal. Pt. Sol. In. 
Cochliarion . . . 000 0-276 
iojcyathos . . . . 000 2-763 
l 5 
i£ 
Oxyh 
aplion . . 000 4 -I 44 
60 
6 
4 
Cotyle . . 000 16-579 
120 
12 
8 
2 
Xeftes . .000 33-158 
180 
18 
12 
3 
Chcenix 000 15705 
48lMediriinos 406 3 501 
* | 
j§640.B64 
576 
144 
71 
Ligu 
4 
Roman, reduced to Englifh Corn-meafure. 
la .... . 0 0 o/y o-oi 
Cyathus . . . 00 0-04 
6 
1 h 
Acetabulum . . 0 0 0 £ 0-06 
24 
6 
4 
Hemina . . 0 0 8 \ 0-24 
48 
12 
8 
2 
Sextarius . .001 0-48 
384 
96 
64 
16 
32 
8jsem 
imodius .010 3-84 
dodius . 100 7-68 
768 
192 
128 
i6| 2^ 
Contents of a Cubic Foot of different Countries , in Englifk Cubic 
Inches and Parts of an Inch. 
A Cubic Foot of 
A French Cubic 
Amfterdam contains 
Antwerp 
Berlin 
Bern 
Bologne 
Bremen 
Denmark or Rhineland 
Dantzic 
Drefden 
England 
France 
Hamburgh 
Hanover 
Konigfberg 
Leipiic 
Lilbon 
Milan - 
Nuremberg 
Ofna burgh 
Rome 
Spain 
Sweden 
Turin 
Venice 
Vienna 
Zurich 
Metre 
1386-20 
1420-03 
1811.39 
1536-80 
3368-25 
1473-76 
1883-65 
1439-07 
1382-50 
172800 
2087.34 
1439-07 
1501-12 
1775-96 
1 3 7 r ’ 3 3 
2177-80 
3812-98 
1710-76 
1331-00 
1560-90 
1 37 5‘°4 
1 597 * 52 - 
2058-07 
2560-10 
1929-78 
1647'20 
61023-50 
To MEAS'URE, v.a. To compute the quantity of any 
thing by fome fettled rule.—Archidamus having received 
from Philip, after the viflory of Cheronea, proud letters, 
writ back, that if he meajured his own lhadow he would 
find it no longer than it was before his viflory. Bacon .— 
To pafs through ; to judge of extent by marching over: 
A true devoted pilgrim is not weary 
To meafure kingdoms with his feeble fteps. Shakefpeare. 
To judge of quantity or extent, or greatnefs: 
Great are thy works, Jehovah ; infinite 
T h y pow’r 1 What thought can meafure thee 1 Milton, 
To adjuft; to proportion.—To fecure a contented fpirit, 
meafure your defires by your fortunes, not your fortunes- 
by your defires. Taylor. —To mark out in ftated quantities. 
—What thou feeft is that portion of eternity which i* 
called time, meafured out by the fun, and reaching from 
the beginning of the world to its consummation. Addifon's 
SpeElator. —To allot or diftribute by meafure.—With what 
meafure you mete, it fhall be meafured to you again. 
Matth. vii. 2.—To repeat according to meafure : 
Full dreadfull things out of that balefull booke 
He red, and meafur'd many a fad verfe. Spenfer. 
MEAS'URELESS, adj, Immenfe; immeafurable.—He 
fhut up in meafurelefs content. Shakefpeare. 
MEASUREMENT,/. Menfuration; ail of meafuring. 
MEAS'URER,/ One that meafures. 
MEAS'URING, f . The ail of taking dimenfions ; of 
regulating by meafure ; of adjulling or fetting out; of run¬ 
ning out in length ; of finding the content of any thing. 
MEAS'URING, adj. It is applied to a call not to be 
diftinguifhed in its length from another but by meafuring : 
When lufty fhepherds throw 
The bar by turns, and none the reft out-go 
So far, but that the beft are measuring calls. 
Their emulation and their paftime lalls. Waller. 
MEAT,/! [mets, Fr.] Flefb to be eaten.—To his father 
he fent ten fhe-affes laden with corn, and bread, and meat 
for his father by the way. Gen. xlv. 23.—Carnivorse, and 
birds of prey, are no good meat ; but the reafon is, rather 
the cholerick nature of thofe birds than their feeding upon 
flefh, for pewets and ducks feed upon flefh, and yet are 
good meat. Bacon's Natural Hijlory. —Food in general.—• 
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats ; but God fhall 
deltroy both. 1 Cor. vi. 13. 
Never words were mufic to thine ear. 
And never meat fweet-favour’d in thy fade, 
Unlefs I fpake or carv’d. Shakefpeare's Comedy of Err ours. 
Amonglt the Jews, feveral kinds of animals were for¬ 
bidden to be ufed as- food. Of domeftic animals, they 
ate only the cow, the flieep, and the goat; and the hen, 
and the pigeon, among domeftic birds; befides feveral 
kinds of wild animals. To eat the flefh with the blood 
was forbidden them; much more to eat the blood without 
the flefh. We may form a judgment of their tafte by 
what the Scripture mentions of Solomon’s table, 1 Kings 
iv. 22, 23. Thirty meafures of the fined wheat-flour 
were provided for it every day, and twice as much of the 
ordinary fort; ten flall-fed oxen, twenty pafture-oxen, 
an hundred fheep, befides vemlon and poultry. The 
lamb and kid were efteemed delicious: Rebekah pre¬ 
pared fome for Ifaac, to procure his blefling for Jacob ; 
Mofes appointed it for the feaft of thepaflover; Manoah 
offered a boiled kid to the angel, who foretold the birth of 
Samfon; Samfon carried a kid to his wife to make a 
reconciliation between them. 
It does not appear that the Hebrews were very nice 
about the fe’afoniug and drefling of <their food. We 
find among them roaft meat, boiled meat^ and ragouts. 
They roalted the pafeal lamb; meats that were offered 
were boiled in a pot: for the ions of Eli, the high-prielt 
took flefh out of the pots of thole who offered facrifices, 
faying they would have it raw, that they might drefs it to 
their own palates. 1 Sam. ii. 15. Rebekah made a ragout, 
or ftewed meat, for Ifaac, and ferved it up to him in the 
manner fhe knew he loved. Gen. xxvii. 4, 14. Salt was the 
only fealoning we find noticed in the meat prepared in 
the temple. The greater part of our prefent fpices 
were unknown to the ancient Hebrews. At this day in 
Palefline, they ufe honey in many of their ragouts : oil, 
and perhaps lome aromatic herbs, were alfo added. The 
pafeal lamb was eaten with bitter herbs , perhaps muftard. 
The prohibition of eating blood, or animals that are llran- 
gled, has been always rigidly obferved by the Jews ; and 
Calmet affures us, that they do not fo much as eat an egg, 
if there appears tie leall llreak of blood ia it. When an 
4 animal 
