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Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.

Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

Mutual. [Obs.] Daniel. -- In`ter*mu"tu*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The latter, or second, mowing; the aftermath.

A person employed on, or who manages, a lighter.

To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

A vacation between two terms of a court.

Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.

ing; outward manner; superficial remark, etc. [Obs.] Not to bear cold forms, nor men's outterms. B. Jonson.

he act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry. "The trouble and pesterment of children." B. Franklin.

A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. [An obs. local term in Eng.] Chapman.

See Pretermit.

Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.

Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God.

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.

To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale.

The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton.

To pass by; to omit; to disregard. Bacon.

the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Totten. Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office havi…

A term used specifically by seamen; a nautical word or phrase.