Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of graduated compass used at the Maternity Hospital in Paris for measuring new-born infants.
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Examples
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And he shall have it; and at a length which shall content him, unless his mecometer be an insatiable apparatus.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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