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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.

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

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

ction; 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.

hen 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.

Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.

A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water. Johnson.

A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.

base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.

orms the handle, or to which the connecting rod is attached, at the end of a crank, or between the arms of a double crank. -- Crank shaft, a shaft bent into a crank, or having a crank fastened to it, by which it drives or is driven. -- Crank wheel, a wheel acting as a crank, or having a wrist to which a connecting ro…

three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler. -- Popping crease (Cricket),, a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet di…

A small, low iron, or dog, between the andirons.

A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (-Bentley.

lar confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.