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To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts; as, any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the center. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Cowper.

To sow between or among. [R.]

Between septa; as, the interseptal spaces or zones, between the transparent, or septal, zones in striated muscle; the interseptal chambers of a shell, or of a seed vessel.

To put in between other things; to insert. [Obs.] Brerewood.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.

To set between or among. [R.]

Between or among constellations or stars; interstellar.

Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness. [R.]

A speech interposed between others. [R.] Blount.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.

Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial. -- n.

Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.

Between or among the stars; as, interstellar space. Bacon.

Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.

That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.

Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.

Stratification among or between other layers or strata; also, that which is interstratified.

Stratified among or between other bodies; as, interstratified rocks.

To put or insert between other strata.

Between the tarsal bones; as, the intertarsal articulations.