(a) Size in three dimensions, magnitude, volume, capacity; open ~, capacity of something when empty; (b) size in length; stature; also fig.; (c) circumference; (d) size of a surface area; also, size of a town or city.

(a) Amount or quantity of things; also, amount of land; (b) amount or sum of money, alms, expenses, etc.; amount of financial support [1st quot.]; ~ for ~, as much as is needed; (c) amount of writing in a book; amount said regarding a given subject at a given point of a book; (d) the greatness of someone's love, goodness, nobility, etc.; magnitude of sin or wrongdoing; intensity of activity [quot.: Barth., 2nd]; severity of an ailment or injury; extent of a process; (e) in proverb.

(a) An amount, a quantity, or portion of something; certain (god, gret, litel) ~; ~ of; (b) an amount of money, wealth, etc.; a certain monetary amount of a precious metal; (c) a specific amount of land.

Amount of a measurable quantity such as weight, length, distance, latitude, etc.; also, a specific amount of a measurable quantity.

Bulk, mass; bodi ~, the main part of (someone's) body.

(a) Numerical quantity of persons or things; numbers; in bodili ~, numerically; (b) a certain number.

Extent in time, duration; also, a space of time; min lives ~, for the duration of my life; in times ~, over a length of time; if ther mighte ben ~, if there is sufficient time.

(a) Extent, amount, or number; the quantitative aspect of things; gram. a word denoting size or amount; phil. quantity in the abstract, the category of quantity; (b) math. numerical amount considered in the abstract; an instance of numerical amount; of an even number divided by two: continuel ~, a numerical amount viewed as a continuum (i.e., the magnitude of the quotient); discrete ~, a separate part, or separate parts (i.e., of the divisor).

Mus. Of a musical note: a specific height or pitch.

In adverbial phrases: a ~, in an unspecified amount; somewhat, considerably; a god (huge) ~, in a large quantity; a) gret ~, by, in, or to a great amount or extent; a litel ~, a little way; the ~, in a specified amount.