measure vb.:
1.
“
” one's “length,” fall or lie full length on the
ground
MND. III. ii. 429
“To out my length on
this cold bed,”
Lr. I. iv. 100
“If you will your
lubber's length again”
; so
Cym. I. ii. 26
“till you had measured
how long a fool you were upon the
ground.”
2.
“measure swords,” fight
AYL. V. iv. 91.
3.
to mark “out” the bounds of
AYL. II. vi. 2.
4.
to judge, estimate
Wint. II. i. 113, 2H4 V. ii. 652, H5 I. ii. 268, Rom. I. i. 132, Sonn. lxix. 10.
5.
to traverse Gent. II. vii. 10,
Mer.V. III. iv. 84
“we must twenty miles
to-day”
; to go back upon (one's steps), retrace (a
path) Tp. II. i. 267 [259], John V. v. 3.
6.
to tread (a ‘measure’), only quibblingly in
Rom. I. iv. 10
“We'll measure them a
measure, and be gone.”
