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One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia. The antelope and wolf both fierce and fell. Spenser.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

water have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between sq. root2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.

(like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood…

Naked spaces between the feathered areas of birds. See Pteryliæ.

ss 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.

rbitrate 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.