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The quality or state of being intelligible; intelligibility. Locke.

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

Between lammellæ or laminæ; as, interlamellar spaces.

To intermeddle; to intermix. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

Interpelling; interrupting. -- n.

To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.

The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption. "Continual interpellations." Bp. Hall.

Mutually repellent. De Quincey.

Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.

Interstellar.

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

Furnished with involucels.

See Involucel.

The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, by the Indians of the west coast of North America.

A favorite sweet American grape of a purple color. See Fox grape, under Fox.

A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

A brownish yellow color.

Of an isabel or isabella color.

A variety of pear which ripens early.