Having little flesh; lean; thin. / Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

(American spelling, transitive) To make lean.

Emphatically yes; certainly; definitely. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see by, all, means.

(idiomatic) certainly not; definitely not; not by any means.

That has been determined by measurement. / Deliberate but restrained. / (of poetry etc.) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.

simple past tense and past participle of measure

Any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; a unit of measure.

Argyrosomus regius, an edible fish of the family Sciaenidae.

Having little flesh; lean; thin. / Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent

(transitive) To make lean.