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To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey. [Archaic] Shak.

f a river. Who intercepts me in my expedition Shak. We must meet first, and intercept his course. Dryden.

To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt. Mitford. So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded. Boyle.

Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse or mutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade. -- In`ter*co*lo"ni*al*ly, adv.

To have mutual communication or intercourse by conservation. [Scot.]

Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison.

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. Milton.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.

Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.

The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.

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

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

involve; to make perplexing. [Obs.] It makes men troublesome, and intricates all wise discourses. Jer. Taylor.

ity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.] How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! Dr. J. Scott.

That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.

ect or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.

That which is inverse. Thus the course of human study is the inverse of the course of things in nature. Tatham.

To pursue a course of investigation and study; to make investigation.