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In the space which separates; between. From betwixt two aged oaks. Milton.

A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

A fight with stones between two parties of boys. [Scot.] Jamieson.

One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.

Pertaining to, or formed from, two molecules; as, a bimolecular reaction (a reaction between two molecules).

The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.

or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

ystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

tion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.

To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation. Oldys.

An inflammation in the foot of a horse, between the sole and the bone. [Obs.]

onceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

showy man; a rake. Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty Shak. It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray.

sed by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

ed under the obligation of a bond. Burrows. -- Bond (or lap) of a slate, the distance between the top of one slate and the bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -…

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

he studding-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

t, in addition; over and above; besides; as a compensation for the difference of value between things bartered. Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot.…