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A flowing between. [Obs.] Bailey.

piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera.

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediat…

The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals.

Between members or limbs; as, intermembral homology, the correspondence of the limbs with each other.

Between the metacarpal bones.

Between the metatarsal bones.

To flash or shine between or among. [R.] Blount.

A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

The space between two modillions.

Between mountains; as, intermontane soil.

Being, between worlds or orbs. [R.] "Intermundane spaces." Locke.

Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.

Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.

Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage.

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.