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Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

ting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma. Look how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our looks. Shak.

Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory. "Interpretative lexicography." Johnson.

By interpretation. Ray.

Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.

Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak.

Unusual. [R.] Bramhall.

Want of use; disuse. [R.] Paley.

The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company; as, an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend.

Using or containing invitations. The "Venite" [Psalm xcv.], which is also called the invitatory psalm. Hook.

ghten excitement in; to intensify; to stimulate. Cold maketh the spirits vigorous and irritateth them. Bacon.

The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger. The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of t…

Serving to excite or irritate; irritating; as, an irritative agent.

Exciting; producing irritation; irritating. [R.] Hales.

Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass. Sir W. Thomson.

Subjected to equal pressure from every side; being in hydrostatic equilibrium, as a body submerged in a liquid at rest; pertaining to, or characterized by, isostasy.

A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation. Sir. W. Temple.

A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. Dunglison. Jactitation of marriage (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

(Physiol.) A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.

nia; -- a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original United States.