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riods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.

icer of a chapter; he is an ecclesiastical magistrate next in degree to bishop, and has immediate charge of the cathedral and its estates. -- Dean of peculiars, a dean holding a preferment which has some peculiarity relative to spiritual superiors and the jurisdiction exercised in it. [Eng.] -- Rural dean, one having,…

and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [Eng.]

or Positive, demonstration (Logic & Math.), one in which the correct conclusion is the immediate sequence of reasoning from axiomatic or established premises; -- opposed to Indirect, or Negative, demonstration (called also reductio ad absurdum), in which the correct conclusion is an inference from the demonstration th…

Having a form intermediate between dentate and sinuate.

rt is not so pleasant." Pope. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Dessert-spoonful, n., pl. Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.

o, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous. He howhere, that I know, says it in direct words. Locke. A direct and avowed interference with elections. Hallam.

Coupled without intermediate connections, as an engine and a dynamo.

Straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately. "Will she go now to bed' Directly.'" Shak.

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

mission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

ion of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton.

Melted in the crucible dissolvents. A. Smith. The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce. Mothley.

ed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

To plunge the head of under water, immediately withdrawing it; as, duck the boy.

complaint] (Eccl. Law), a complaint in the nature of an appeal from the ordinary to his immediate superior, as from a bishop to an archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.…