An English unit of length equal to 1/12 of a foot or 2.54 cm, roughly the width of a thumb.
A depth of one inch on the ground, used as a measurement of rainfall.
A small island; an islet.
A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh.
Any very short distance.
A depth of one inch in a glass, used as a rough measurement of alcoholic beverages.
Any of various similar units of length in other traditional systems of measurement.
To drive by inches, or small degrees.
To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction).
To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.
to humiliate; to provoke; to speak in a cocky and cheeky manner
cocky and cheeky
A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch (25.4 µm).
A thousand, especially a thousand of some currency (dollars, pounds sterling, etc.).
To use the word thou.
To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of contempt or familiarity.