When I apply the former term, I merely mean to say that as a matter of fact, the form B, so named, is intermediate between the others, in the sense in which the Anoplotherium is intermediate between the Pigs and the Ruminantswithout either affirming, or denying, any direct genetic relation between the three forms involved.

To distract, means literally to pull a thing two different wayseven to pull it asunder.

She wore boating clothes and had obviously meant to go on the lake.

"To Cherry Corners, of course," answered Chet in a tone which very plainly meant, "why ask such a foolish question?"

In "Let us wash up the things" it likely means dishes or clothes.

Potts meanwhile was shaking the Big Chimney boss by the hand and saying, "Awfully sorry we can't take you on with us;" adding lower: "We had a mighty mean time after you lit out.

This fable, undoubtedly means no more, than that this child, said to spring from the clod of earth, was a youth of a very mean and obscure birth, but it is not known whether he was the author of it, or whether he learnt it of the Greeks or any other nations.

Though opposed by all the papal authority and resources; though Sixtus by turns threatened, cajoled, entreated, promised, in order to prevent Lorenzo having any success, the successor of St. Peter was beaten all along the line, and the Magnifico carried away with him a treaty, signed and sealed, which practically meant that henceforth Naples and the papacy would be in antagonistic camps.

This may probably furnish precisely that tangible means of relation with some one acquainted with the conspiracy for which we have sought in vain.

But he had honestly meant to devote himself to his mother, according to his lights, had Sarah's influence not come in the way.

That would inevitably mean Spartacism from the Urals to the Rhine, with its inevitable consequence of a huge red army attempting to cross the Rhine.

"Call me cut" meant commonly nothing more than Falstaff's "call me horse"; but as applied to Sporus the term "cutt-boy" was literally correct.

Whatsoever else that may mean, it certainly means thisthat the king intended to treat these men, not as his slaves, but as his guests and friends.

A big old house, all full of other people's ghosts.' 'Ghosts?' 'I mean figuratively.

Such a situation almost invariably means distress to the family, and to the relinquished church of the person the form of whose faith has altered.

"Metropolis" strictly means mother city, not chief city.

But there is no doubt that on its political side it means primarily the gradual substitution of a state of peace for a state of war.

The fact that the same legislature passed afterward a resolution, though by no means unanimously, that Congress does not possess the power, abates not a tittle of the testimony in the first resolution.

"I sure didn't mean to trip youbut maybe my foot might of slipped out a little and" "Slipped out!"

The words, "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," assuredly meant only the white population.

These local names mean very little, for, as a matter of policy, men from all parts of Italy are mixed indiscriminately together in each Brigade.

Europe making common cause against the peoples that are not Europe; Europe carrying her domination round the worldis that what Tasso and Camoens ultimately mean?

"I do think," said Marian, "it's awfully mean of Helen Preston to insist on having a bazaar.

During the reign of Mary II and particularly in the time of Anne a Tower meant almost exclusively the high starched head-dress in vogue at that period.

In the Book of Genesis we are told how Joseph was thrown into a pit by his elder brothers for talking just like this; but he meant it quite innocently, and so do the Germans.