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ipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

de with, malt. Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt. -- Malt dust, fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt…

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

ystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

embling, or derived from, mannite. Mannitic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous substance, intermediate between saccharic acid and mannite, and obtained by the partial oxidation of the latter.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

acids. (b) (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C17H34O2 of the fatty acid series, intermediate between palmitic and stearic acids, and obtained from the wax of certain lichens, from cetyl cyanide, and other sources.

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel. Chaucer.

Intermediate in excellence of any kind. According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. Milton.

s b, d, g (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, p, t, k (p, t, k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) f, th, x (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.

Intermediate. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

y remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides. Perrier.