Search the Dictionary

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. Milton.

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict. The truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurst. Shak.

Having the power to prohibit; as, an interdictive sentence. Milton.

Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.

Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.

To interweave. [R.]

The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.

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

An intertie.

Belonging to present times or those recent by comparison.

ight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.

One who practices sleight of hand; a prestidigitator.

Wood-destroying; -- said of certain insects.

A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

Dominion; rule; command. [R.] Shak.

Ordure; dung. [Obs.] Burton.

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

Having a brownish red color; -- used esp. of light-colored red wine.

A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.