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A placing or coming between; interposition.

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediat…

The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent…

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

Difference in pitch between any two tones. At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.

A coming between; intervention; meeting. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Coming in together; entering; commingling. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To classify or enroll as an invalid. Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay. Carlyle.

The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.

worship, have an elaborate hierarchy of apostles, prophets, etc., and look for the speedy coming of Christ.

Issuing or coming up; -- a term used to express a charge or bearing rising or coming out of another.

y to the Savior during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.

htness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish of them. Shak.

Growing or becoming young.

A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara. [Written also Khamseen.]

short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the genus Hal…

Belonging to, suitable to, or becoming, a king; characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand. "Kingly magnificence." Sir P. Sidney. "A kingly government." Swift. "The kingly couch." Shak. The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.…