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From one to another of; mutually affecting. There was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her. Shak. Betwixt and between, in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other. [Colloq.]

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

on of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.

scle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

A compound consisting of two atoms of chlorine with one or more atoms of another element; -- called also dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff. France had no infantry that dared to face the English bows end bills. Macaulay.

ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.

Flighty; passing rapidly from one subject to another; not having the faculty of attention. Bacon.

lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

enials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's…

e "double blank"; the "six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

ing train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.

ate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.

Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.