a. Coming between the equinoxes. [ 1913 Webster ]
Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. F. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. Cf. Lamboys, Label. ]
n. [ F., fr. reqiem a Mass sung for the dead. See Requiem. ] (Zool.) The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- so called on account of its causing requiems to be sung. [ 1913 Webster ]