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Of or pertaining to the intelligence; exercising or implying understanding; intellectual. "With act intelligential." Milton.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Situated between hills; -- applied especially to valleys lying between volcanic cones.

The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between. England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed. Sir M. Hale.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

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

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

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediat…

Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.

Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. Internal angle (Geom.), an interior angle. See under Interior. -- Internal gear (Mach.), a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward.

The act or process of applying general principles or formulæ to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

estions; as, to interrogate a witness. Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate Emerson.

Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.

erse to a corresponding point in the order figure. -- Inverse points (Geom.), two points lying on a line drawn from the center of a fixed circle or sphere, and so related that the product of their distances from the center of the circle or sphere is equal to the square of the radius. -- Inverse, or Reciprocal, ratio…

Lying at length; as, the jacent posture. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:

sprit or the jib boom. Large vessels often carry several jibe; as, inner jib; outer jib; flying jib; etc.

le of making use of an opponent's strength and weight to disable or injure him, and by applying pressure so that his opposing movement will throw him out of balance, dislocate or break a joint, etc. It opposes knowledge and skill to brute strength, and demands an extensive practical knowledge of human anatomy.…

of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. Cross keelson, a similar structure lying athwart the main keelson, to support the engines and boilers.

A dry husk or covering. When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly. Holland.