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Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise. H. Spenser.

Internodal. [R.]

Of or pertaining to an internuncio.

A female messenger. [R.]

A messenger between two parties. Johnson.

The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson.

Internuncio.

A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

A mass of fat found internally; also, a fatty tumor. -- Ad`i*pom"a*tous, a.

divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the angles AGH, GHD, as also the angles BGH and GHC, are called alternate angles. -- Alternate generati…

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

The unit of electric current; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by U. S. Statute as, one tenth of the unit of current of the C. G. S. system of electro-magnetic units, or the practical equivalent of the unvarying current which, when passed through a standard solution of nitrate of silver i…

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

igure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one gr…

tion and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.…

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting; -- called also Apoda or Apodes.

wells, wells made by boring into the earth till the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.