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g as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.

ween; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Cowper.

The act, state, or place of intersecting.

Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections.

To sow between or among. [R.]

Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

To put in between other things; to insert. [Obs.] Brerewood.

The act of interserting, or that which is interserted. [Obs.] Hammond.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

To set between or among. [R.]

A short, pithy, and instructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

oceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.…

several lenses which compose it. -- Axes of coördinates in a plane, to straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate…

zontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

To secure or support by means of blocks; to secure, as two boards at their angles of intersection, by pieces of wood glued to each.