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To muse; to mediate. [Obs.]

and under these there are Classes, Orders, Families, Genera, Species, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

A division of Crustacea, which, in some its characteristics, is intermediate between Amphipoda and Isopoda.

One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation so obtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative rather than analytic.

A noun in apposition. -- Ap*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Appositive to the words going immediately before. Knatchbull.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.

The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

ack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.

The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. [Obs.]

A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

h.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill…

A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

The molding of a cornice immediately below the corona. Oxf. Gloss.