a measure containing one-tenth of a line.

A line is one-tenth of a digit, and a digit one-tenth of a foot, and a philosophical foot one-third of a pendulum, whose diadromes, or vibrations, in the latitude of 45 degrees, are each equal to one-second of time, or one-sixtieth of a minute.

GRYLLUS, a genus of insects, belonging to the order Hemiptera. See ENTOMOLOGY Index.