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Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.

The open space between the inner and outer shells of a dome or cupola of masonry.

Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

Coming between the equinoxes. Summer and winter I have called interequinoctial intervals. F. Balfour.

Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.

Shining between.

To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter. The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth. Milton.

Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.

Between globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine.

To grave or carve between; to engrave in the alternate sections. The work itself of the bases, was intergraven. 3 Kings vii. 28 (Douay version. )

Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.

The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream. Shak.

; as, the interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle. -- Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orb…

The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between. England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed. Sir M. Hale.

Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

To throw in between; to insert; to interpose. Sir H. Wotton.