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. [ imp. & p. p. Countersealed p. pr. & vb. n. Countersealing. ] To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ imp. & p. p. Intersected; p. pr. & vb. n. Intersecting. ] [ L. intersectus, p. p. of intersecare to intersect; inter + secare to cut. See Section. ] To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

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; as, the point where two lines intersect. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having at least one spatial point in common.
Syn. -- crossed, decussate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. intersectio: cf. F. intersection. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act, state, or place of intersecting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another. [ 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; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interserted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interserting. ] [ L. intersertus, p. p. of interserere to intersert; inter between + serere to join, weave. ] To put in between other things; to insert. [ Obs. ] Brerewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of interserting, or that which is interserted. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set between or among. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not sharing a common point; -- of lines, planes, or surfaces. [ Narrower terms: parallel (vs. nonparallel) ]
Syn. -- nonconvergent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Compar. Terser superl. Tersest. ] [ L. tersus, p. p. of tergere to rub or wipe off. ] 1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [ R. & Obs. ] “Your polite and terse gallants.” Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. [ 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 ]

Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact. Terse, Concise. Terse was defined by Johnson “cleanly written”, i. e., free from blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is “free from excrescences, ” and hence, compact, with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: - [ 1913 Webster ] “In eight terse lines has Phaedrus told
(So frugal were the bards of old)
A tale of goats; and closed with grace,
Plan, moral, all, in that short space.” [ 1913 Webster ] It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of “grace or elegance.” [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Terse"ly, adv. -- Terse"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]