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One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.

Intervention; interposition. [R.]

Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed. [Obs.] Bacon.

To thwart; to obstruct. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers. Coleman.

Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.

Interposition. [Obs.] Sir H. Blount.

To turn to another course or use. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.

ly, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.

One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.

The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.

Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

Between two lives. [R.] Through all its [the spirit's] intervital gloom. Tennyson.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.

To involve one within another; to twist or coil together. Milton.

To weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.