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A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play. Smart.

To cause separation; to disunite. A gulf, a strait, the sea intervening between islands, divide less than the matted forest. Bancroft.

of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

The slip or water way extending between two piers or projecting wharves, for the reception of ships; -- sometimes including the piers themselves; as, to be down on the dock.

A Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun. Popularly, the sultry, close part of the summer.…

In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.

A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n.,

im that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

s of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.

ble-quick. -- Double window, a window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.

eads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

ain issue or event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

read), and a mortise, or socket, into which it fits tightly, making an interlocking joint between two pieces which resists pulling a part in all directions except one. Dovetail molding (Arch.), a molding of any convex section arranged in a sort of zigzag, like a series of dovetails. -- Dovetail saw (Carp.), a saw used…

Of a color between gray and brown. -- n.

The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3. Drag sail (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel thr…

e car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.