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

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

to mimic; to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars than preferments can take off. [R.] Bacon. -- To take on, to assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. -- To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.…

A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.

orizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.

Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

Any one of numerous species of pseudoneoropterous insects belonging to Termes and allied genera; -- called also white ant. See Illust. of White ant.

Same as Termer, 2.

Not fermented; unleavened; -- said of bread, loaves, etc. [Obs.] Pask and the feast of therf loaves. Wyclif.

f the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

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

The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

alled the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag. -- Tide dial, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time. -- Tide gate. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one dir…

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

m various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

rricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. -- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end…

nce of; to impose upon. [Prov. Eng.] I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance. C. Bronte.

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

one 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 gene…

individuals 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.), t…