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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A combining form sometimes used in organic chemistry in place of meta-.
  • noun Preterit and past participle of meet.
  • noun A measure of any kind; a bushel; a barrel.
  • An abbreviation
  • of metaphor, metaphorical, metaphorically;
  • of metaphysical, metaphysically, metaphysics;
  • of metropolitan.
  • noun An obsolete preterit of mete.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imp. & p. p. of meet.
  • imp. & p. p. of mete, to measure.
  • p. p. of mete, to dream.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of meet.

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