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That which is within; the interior. [Poetic] Mrs. Browning.

State of being within; interiority. [R.] H. Brooke.

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennæ of some insects.

To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.

The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.

To receive between or within.

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

Transpicuous within or between. [R.] Shelley.

Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.

To involve one within another; to twist or coil together. Milton.

To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

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

Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve.

Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton.

Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

Situated within the margin. Loudon.

Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane.

Being within the walls, as of a city.