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That which is within; the interior. [Poetic] Mrs. Browning.

Internecine.

Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. Motley.

Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Internecine. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Intimate connection. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

An interneural spine or cartilage.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.

Internodal. [R.]

Of or pertaining to an internuncio.

A female messenger. [R.]

A representative, or chargé d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

Internuncio.

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

A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.

Same as Jobbernowl.