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Out of season; untimely. [Obs.] Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.

Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.

stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. Sir M. Hale.

of rocks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.

at a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. Sir M. Hale.

es between. England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed. Sir M. Hale.

laws . . . [were] mingled and interlarded with many particular laws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.

A flowing between; intervening water. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

. . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

used by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden.

Intricacy; complication. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

pond with the modern major scale of C. -- Ionic sect, a sect of philosophers founded by Thales of Miletus, in Ionia. Their distinguishing tenet was, that water is the original principle of all things. -- Ionic type, a kind of heavy-faced type (as that of the following line).

To animate by heat or light. Sir M. Hale.

Fig.: Mental light or illumination. Sir M. Hale.

Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. [R.] Hales.

hether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia.