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A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.

The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton.

A prefix signifying between, among, part.

d neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.

The interval of time which occurs between the performance of any two acts of a drama.

r to give zest to the appetite; in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

Any small entertainment between two greater ones. [R.]

A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker.

Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.

part of the abdomen. (b) An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.

Pertaining to a small Wormian bone sometimes present in the human skull between the parietal and the great wing of the sphenoid. -- n.

The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea.

Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under Confessional.

An expression of the condition of equality between two algebraic quantities or sets of quantities, the sign = being placed between them; as, a binomial equation; a quadratic equation; an algebraic equation; a transcendental equation; an exponential equation; a logarithmic equation; a differential equation, etc.…

poise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body. Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers. Arbuthnot.

An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position.

overed with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales. Escaloped oysters (Cookery). See under Scalloped.

That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive. [Written also .]