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Intermediate action.

The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.

Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon.

Not retractile.

A boasting; a bragging. [Obs.]

A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation. Sir. W. Temple.

A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. Dunglison. Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

The act of labefying or making weak; the state of being weakened; decay; ruin. There is in it such a labefaction of all principles as may be injurious to morality. Johnson.

The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.

One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

Pertaining to, or designating, an amido acid related to lactic acid, and called also amido-propionic acid.

An acid amide derived from lactic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance having a neutral reaction. It is metameric with alanine.

Suckling; giving suck.

A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Obs.] "Lactary or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

A salt of lactic acid.

A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

Milkily; in the manner of milk.