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The condition or quality of being insecure; want of safety; danger; hazard; as, the insecurity of a building liable to fire; insecurity of a debt.

To intervene; to come or occur in the meantime. [Obs.] Shelton.

A passing or running between; occurrence. Boyle.

Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.

Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

Incurable. [Obs.]

A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream…

Treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy, as walking barefoot in the morning dew, baths, wet compresses, cold affusions, etc.; -- so called from its originator, Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), a German priest.

Having relation to changes in currents that depend on the moon's phases. Bache.

od care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.

One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.

To affect with mercury.

In a mercurial manner.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion. Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. See Corrosive.

The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.

To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]

A communication of news; an announcement. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.