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An actor who performs in an interlude. B. Jonson.

A flowing between; intervening water. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible. Milton.

Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space.

Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.

rth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

See Premaxilla.

An intermaxilla.

Something done in the meantime; interlude. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A flowing between. [Obs.] Bailey.

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others. Swift.

Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n.

The act of improperly interfering. Burke.

ort musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera.

Interposition; intervention. Derham.

The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

Intermediate. [Obs.]

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.