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Shining between.

To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

Distinguishing. [Obs.] Wallis.

uch a ditch. On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington.

ts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward. So much the rather, thou Celestial Light, Shine inward. Milton.

one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital. Ionic dialect (Gr. Gram.), a dialect of the Greek language, used in Ionia. The Homeric poems are written in what is designated old Ionic, as distinguished fro…

To emit rays; to shine.

being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.

A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton.

Rushing in or upon.

of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers. Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. Milton. Ye myrtles brown, with ivy neve…

reputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. Shak. She shines the first of battered jades. Swift.

A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion to the deep blue of its water. It is similar in may ways to the Gulf Stream…

The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.

Discord; a clashing of interests. "Endless jarrings and immortal hate." Dryden.

a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing anything between them, as, the jaws of a vise, or the jaws of a stone-crushing machine.

The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. -- Jerk"ing*ly, adv.

A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. [New Eng.]

ws, bad news. Carlyle. -- Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.