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ch compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.

Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.

See Entice.

law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. 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.

Liable to trial in a court of justice. [Obs.] Hayward.

Justiceship. B. Jonson.

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who administers justice; a judge. [Obs.] "Some upright justicer." Shak.

The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.

wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework. The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice. Judg. v. 28.

Same as Lattice, n., 1.

One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.

Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.

Lenticel.

The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

See Malpractice.

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Mesaticephalic.

Wrong practice.