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action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.

The act of inhuming or burying; interment.

An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

Not sensuous; not pertaining to, affecting, or addressing, the senses. That intermediate door Betwixt the different planes of sensuous form And form insensuous. Mrs. Browning.

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

Intermediate action.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose. To interfere with party disputes. Swift. There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. Bp. Warburton.

To spread through; to permeate; to pervade. [R.] Keats, in whom the moral seems to have so perfectly interfused the physical man, that you might almost say he could feel sorrow with his hands. Lowell.

An intermediate or connecting link.

An intermediate act or decree before final decision. Ayliffe.

Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action.

om the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

on of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

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

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

o the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments. Intestinal canal. Same as Intestine, n. -- Intestinal worm (Zoöl.), any species of helminth living in the intestinal canal of any animal. The species are numerous.

An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.