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Intersternal

Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.

Intersticed

Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.

Interstitial

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

Interstratification

Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.

Interstratified

Stratified among or between other bodies; as, interstratified rocks.

Intertarsal

Between the tarsal bones; as, the intertarsal articulations.

Intertex

To intertwine; to weave or bind together.

Intertexture

The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven.

Intertie

In any framed work, a horizontal tie other than sill and plate or other principal ties, securing uprights to one another.

Intertrigo

A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.

Intertubular

Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.

Intertwine

The act of intertwining, or the state of being intertwined.

Intertwist

To twist together one with another; to intertwine.

Interurban

Going between, or connecting, cities or towns; as, interurban electric railways.

Intervale Interval

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7.

Intervary

To alter or vary between; to change.

Intervene

A coming between; intervention; meeting.

Intervener

One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.

Intervenient

Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed.

Interventor

One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers.

Interventricular

Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.

Interview

To have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication.

Interviewer

One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication.

Interviewing

The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews.

Intervisible

Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.

Intervocalic

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

intervolution

The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.

intervolve

To involve one within another; to twist or coil together.

interwish

To wish mutually in regarded to each other.

intestable

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament.

Intestacy

The state of being intestate, or of dying without having made a valid will.

Intestate

A person who dies without making a valid will.

Intestinal

Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal enzymes.

Intextine

A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera.

Inthrall

To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave.

Inthrallment

Act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage.

intima

the innermost coat of an organ, such as a blood vessel. It usually consists of an endothelial layer of cells, backed by connective tissue and elastic tissue.

Intimacy

The state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.

intimal

of or pertaining to the intima.

Intimate

An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

Intime

Inward; internal; intimate.

Intimidate

To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.

intimidating

discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of encouraging.

Intimidation

The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.

Intinctivity

The lack of the quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies.

Intine

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

Into

To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

Intoleration

Intolerance; lack of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

Intomb

To place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. See Entomb.

Intonate

To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.

Intonation

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t.

Intone

To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.

Intort

To twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.

Intoxicant

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

Intoxicating

Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

Intoxication

A poisoning, as by a alcoholic or a narcotic substance.

Intraaxillary

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Intracellular

Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells; intracellular enzymes. Contrasted with extracellular.

Intracolic

Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Intractable

Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Intractile

Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended.

intradermal

relating to areas between the layers of the skin.

Intrados

The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

Intrafoliaceous

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

Intrafusion

The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.

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