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English Dictionary: M roof by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   M \M\, n.
      1. (Print.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect
            square; also, the size of such a square in any given size
            of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type:
            500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length
            and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that
            number. [Written also {em}.]
  
      2. (law) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M,
            formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and
            admitted to the benefit of clergy.
  
      {M roof} (Arch.), a kind of roof formed by the junction of
            two common roofs with a valley between them, so that the
            section resembles the letter M.
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