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The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. (b) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail. (c) The delivry up oh fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. Wharton.

In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.

airs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.

Having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.

nion of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Bouvier.

Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.

abl. of caput head, chief.], or Tenant in chief, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the…

three surd mutes k, p, t; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

A third somewhat; something mediating, or regarded as being, between two diverse or incompatible substances, natures, or positions.

nt; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the testator himself. Bouvier.…

re two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.

Soon afterward, or immediately; next; afterward. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. Matt. v. 24.

Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.

Immediately; at once; without delay.

A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.

The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

entence or clause following; until. And said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13. Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. Jer. Taylor. There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.