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The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.

o the shell of a sea urchin. Coronal suture (Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the frontoparietal suture.

See Conservation of energy, under Conservation. -- Correlation of forces, the relation between the forces which matter, endowed with various forms of energy, may exert.

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state. Bacon. To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post offi…

tinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

it to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.

Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.

One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

The law that the force exerted between two electric or magnetic charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely to the square of the distance between them.

The breast, or thet part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise.

nd man made the town. Cowper. Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay.

ally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

rection; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute. Gwilt.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. If we conclude a peace, It shall be with such strict and severe covenants As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak.

A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.