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The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

ing farther; kept; detained. [R.] And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. Jer. Taylor.

Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb.

The want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan.

Unusual. [R.] Bramhall.

Want of use; disuse. [R.] Paley.

An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

A jocose act or saying; jocoseness. Sir T. Browne.

To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose. Derham.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.

See Kinesiatrics.

corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. Bacon.

The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness. Skelton.

The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.

Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n.

Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

nsferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoite…

A wrong position.