Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stichometry \Stich*om"e*try\, n. [Gr. ? a line + -metry.]
   1. Measurement of books by the number of lines which they
      contain.

   2. Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the
      division of the text of books into lines accommodated to
      the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before
      punctuation was adopted.