Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mete

Mete , noun

Meat. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Mete , verb, transitive and intransitive

To meet. [Obsolete] — Chaucer

Mete , verb, intransitive and transitive

[Anglo-Saxon m{not transcribed}tan.]

To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obsolete]
I mette of him all night. — Chaucer

Mete (mēt) , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon metan; akin to Dutch meten, German messen, Old High German mezzan, Icelandic meta, Swedish mata, Gothic mitan, Latin modus measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Greek {not transcribed} to rule, {not transcribed} a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as English measure, Latin metiri to measure; compare Sanskrit to measure. r99. Compare Measure, Meet, a., Mode.]

To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

Mete , intransitive verb

To measure. [Obsolete] — Mark iv. 24

Mete , noun

[Anglo-Saxon met. See Mete to measure.]

Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.