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To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. [R.] Daniel.

Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.

To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]

s claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him.

To interpose; to insert or place between. [R.] Cudworth.

To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations. Cowper.

or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties. Shak.

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.

The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

terprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.

Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.

The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation.

Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.

Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

To receive between or within.

The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.

Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n.

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

Between the scapulæ or shoulder blades.

To write between. [R.]