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tness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.

-- Aqueous humor (Anat.), one the humors of the eye; a limpid fluid, occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea. (See Eye.) -- Aqueous rocks (Geol.), those which are deposited from water and lie in strata, as opposed to volcanic rocks, which are of igneous origin; -- called also sedimentary rocks.…

Pertaining to a thin membrane of the brain and spinal cord, between the dura mater and pia mater.

A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.

o arbitrate upon several reports;; to arbitrate in disputes among heighbors; to arbitrate between parties to a suit.

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

nnective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics. J. Grote.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the fi…

as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.

on or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.