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To communicate mutually; to interchange. Holland.

Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.

Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author. How strangely Ignatius is mangled and interpolated, you may see by the vast difference of all copies and editions. Bp. Barlow. The Ath…

Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter.

To alter or vary between; to change. [Obs.] Rush.

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance.

that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

Not given to variation or change; unalterable; unchangeable; always uniform. Physical laws which are invariable. I. Taylor. -- In*va"ri*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*va"ri*a*bly, adv.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar.

ney invested, or that in which money is invested. Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.

Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

Incapable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

, or to the stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated by a change of form, or contraction; contractility.

ine upon a thermodynamic diagram so drawn as to represent the pressures corresponding to changes of temperature when the volume of the gas operated on is constant. -- I`so*chor"ic (#), a.