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Falling or coming between; happening accidentally. [Obs.] Boyle.

interrupt. Mitford. So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded. Boyle.

A passing or running between; occurrence. Boyle.

Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

ming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. -- Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent mo…

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle.

Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.

To utter a sentiment by way of interruption. Boyle.

Irradiating or illuminating; as, the irradiant moon. Boyse.

In an irrational manner. Boyle.

That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.

Incapable of being dissolved or resolved into parts; insoluble. Boyle.

tes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white.

inate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as:

joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones. Boyle.

aintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. I keep but three men and a boy. Shak.

Capable or deserving of being kicked. "A kickable boy." G. Eliot.

aist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]

a contentious man to kindle strife. Prov. xxvi. 21. Nothing remains but that I kindle the boy thither. Shak. Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton. Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Dryden.