What is to measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. Shak called?
gauge — To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of. You shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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