Defn: Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. Shak.
5. (Mus.)
Defn: A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [Obs.] The mean is drowned with your unruly base. Shak.
6. Meantime; meanwhile. [Obs.] Spenser.
7. A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
He wooeth her by means and by brokage. Chaucer.
By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means.
— By any means, in any way; possibly; at all.
If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Phil.
iii. ll.
— By no means, or By no manner of means, not at all; certainly not;
not in any degree.
The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on
the other. Addison.
MEANDER Me*an"der, n. Etym: [L. Maeander, orig., a river in Phrygia, proverbial for its many windings, Gr. méandre.]
1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.
2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
3. (Arch.)
Defn: Fretwork. See Fret.