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Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.

Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.

plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]

One who interpleads.

To pledge mutually. [R.]

To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. [R.] Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.

That may be interpolated; suitable to be interpolated. A most interpolable clause of one sentence. De Morgan.

To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table.

. . . upon the scriptural glosses in our present copies of Hesychius, which he considered interpolations from a later hand. De Quincey.

One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.

To interpose; to insert or place between. [R.] Cudworth.

One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent. [R.] Heywood.

The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.

To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations. Cowper.

One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.

The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

Interposition. [Obs.]

-- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech. Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Matt. i. 23. And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pha…