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Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.

etween; 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.

The act, state, or place of intersecting.

Pertaining to, or formed by, intersections.

To sow between or among. [R.]

Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

To put in between other things; to insert. [Obs.] Brerewood.

The act of interserting, or that which is interserted. [Obs.] Hammond.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

To set between or among. [R.]

To shock mutually. [R.]

Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar.

Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social.

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

A speech interposed between others. [R.] Blount.

To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.

Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.