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So as not to be effaceable.

To ingratiate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

To work in, as lace; to embellish with work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace. P. Fletcher.

t the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

vention; 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.

e one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches (Arch.), arches, usually circular, so constructed that their archivolts intersect and seem to be interlaced.…

The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.

To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [R.] Daniel.

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.

Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceæ), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.

Incapable of being retraced; not retraceable.

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

Double-faced; deceitful. Janus-faced lock, one having duplicate faces so as to go upon a right or a left hand door, the key entering on either side indifferently. Knight.

Like an ament, or bearing aments; amentaceous.

Of. pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Juncaceæ), of which the common rush (Juncus) is the type.

arts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. Spenser.

A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.