v. t. To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Psychol.) A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
v. t.
v. t. To give additional security to or for. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. intersecans, p. pr. of intersecare. See Intersect. ] Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Lands intersected by a narrow frith
Abhor each other. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other;
n. [ L. intersectio: cf. F. intersection. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. interseminatus, p. p. of interseminare. See Inter-, and Seminate. ] To sow between or among. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Biol.) Between septa;
v. t.
n. The act of interserting, or that which is interserted. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Anat.) Between sesamoid bones;
v. t. To set between or among. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. not sharing a common point; -- of lines, planes, or surfaces. [ Narrower terms:
a.
Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
A poet, too, was there, whose verse
Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
(So frugal were the bards of old)
A tale of goats; and closed with grace,
Plan, moral, all, in that short space.” [ 1913 Webster ]
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