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ogether in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-going. "Happy-go-lucky carelessness." W. Black.

To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact. Emerson. Tyndall.

To animate or inspire mutually. [Obs.] Donne.

To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services. I shall interchange My waned state for Henry's regal crown. Shak.

Capable of being mutually communicated.

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

Mutually dependent.

To join mutually; to unite. [R.] Shak.

To know mutually. [Obs.]

To libel mutually.

To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. Motley.

Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.

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

Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.

To pledge mutually. [R.]

Mutually repellent. De Quincey.

To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Cowper.

To shock mutually. [R.]

To be twined or twisted together; to become mutually involved or enfolded.