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▪ I. meting, vbl. n.1|ˈmiːtɪŋ|
Forms: see mete v.1
[f. mete v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of mete v.1; measuring; portioning out; etc.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 11 Siche metyng of corn, of mele, or oþer þing. c1440Promp. Parv. 336/1 Metynge wythe mesurys, mensuracio. 1543Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §7 The..meting and bounding of the said fourth Part of the said Woods. 1548Patten Exped. Scot. Pref. ⁋1 Although it bee not allways the truest meanes of meting to measure all mens appetites by one mans affeccion. 1624A. Hunter (title) Treatise of Weights, Mets and Measures of Scotland... Together with the Art of Metting, measuring and compting all sort of Land. 1644Bulwer Chiron. 122 The meeting and scanning of verses upon the Fingers. 1829R. Story Mem. Isab. Campbell vii. (1854) 104 She was in the habit also of acknowledging in every feeling or personal application of the words [of Scripture] the metings out of his sovereign love. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Meteings, the measurement and estimate of timber.
†b. pl. Dimensions. Obs. rare—1.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 110 The three meteings or dimensions of a body.
c. Comb.: meting-pole, -rod = mete-pole, mete-rod.
1606Holland Sueton. 4 With ten foote perches [marg. Or meeting poles] in their hands. 1881Rossetti Ballads & Sonn. (1882) 275 To take the meting-rod In turn, and so approve on God Thy science of Theometry.
▪ II. † meting, vbl. n.2 Obs.
Forms: see mete v.2; also 4 matyng.
[f. mete v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of mete v.2; dreaming; a dream.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 156 Seo mætingc. c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 27 Þo nicht efter þet aperede an ongel of heuene in here slepe ine metinge. 13..K. Alis. 261 By theo planetis, and by the steorres, Y can jugge alle weorres, Alle plaies, in alle matynges, And on alle othir thynges. c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 282 Ioseph..that red so The kynges metynge pharao. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. xxxiii. (1869) 87, I wolde weene al were lesinge, or elles that it were meetinge. |