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INTERNECINE a.
Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. Motley.
INTERNECION n.
Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
INTERNECIVE a.
Internecine. [R.] Sydney Smith.
INTERNECTION n.
Intimate connection. [Obs.] W. Montagu.
INTERNEURAL a. 2 definitions
An interneural spine or cartilage.
INTERNITY n.
State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.
INTERNMENT n.
Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
INTERNODAL a.
Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.
INTERNODE n. 2 definitions
The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.
INTERNODIAL a.
Internodal. [R.]
INTERNUNCIAL a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to an internuncio.
INTERNUNCIESS n.
A female messenger. [R.]
INTERNUNCIO n. 2 definitions
A messenger between two parties. Johnson.
INTERNUNCIOSHIP n.
The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.
INTERNUNCIUS n.
Internuncio.
INTEROCEANIC a.
Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.
INTEROCULAR a.
Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.
INTEROPERCULAR a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the interoperculum. -- n.
INTEROPERCULUM n.
The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.
INTERORBITAL a.
Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.
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