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Esat Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.

casual manner; -- often with on or upon. If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they immediately quitted it. Addison.

ne of several species of Old World crows belonging to Crypsirhina and allied genera, intermediate between the true crows and the jays. The tail is long, and the bill is curved and without a tooth. -- Tree dove (Zoöl.) any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic doves belonging to Macropygia and allied genera…

A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.

ndividuals of the same species of three distinct forms, not connected, as a rule, by intermediate gradations; the condition among individuals of the same species of having three different shapes or proportions of corresponding parts; -- contrasted with polymorphism, and dimorphism. Heterogonous trimporphism (Bot.), tha…

her large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared.

, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two open…

In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1st ultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo.

The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.

To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

Of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior elements in the hyoidean arch of fishes. -- n.

A median ossification back of the lophosteon in the sternum of some birds.

certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Sumbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.

n; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

n; discord; dispute; quarrel. That which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Shak.

which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.

clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession. Bouvier.

road way. Via Lactea Etym: [L.] (Anat.), the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1. -- Via media Etym: [L.] (Theol.), the middle way; -- a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.