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Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. E. Forbes.

An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o Milton. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. Is. lix. 2.

he shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility.

f time too short to be estimated; also, any particular moment. There is scarce an instant between their flourishing and their not being. Hooker.

That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

d to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between rivers. [R.] "An interamnian country." J. Bryant.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces.

Existing between royal courts. [R.] "Interaulic politics." Motley.

Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

The space between two axes. See Axis, 6. The doors, windows, niches, and the like, are then placed centrally in the interaxes. Gwilt.

Between the arms.