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Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social.

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

A speech interposed between others. [R.] Blount.

To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.

Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The interstapedial part of the columella.

the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.

Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.

Interstellar.

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

which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.

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

Distinguishing. [Obs.] Wallis.

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

An intervening period of time; interval. [Obs.] Gower.

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

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