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Transpicuous within or between. [R.] Shelley.

Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.

A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.

Between the trochanters of the femur.

Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.

Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance.

Between ungulæ; as, interungular glands.

Going between, or connecting, cities or towns; as, interurban electric railways.

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A dreadful interval. Milton.

A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.] The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. The Century.

To alter or vary between; to change. [Obs.] Rush.

To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.

One who intervenes; especially (Law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.

Being or coming between; intercedent; interposed. [Obs.] Bacon.

ird person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.

Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.

Between vertebræ. -- In`ter*ver"te*bral*ly, adv.

Between two lives. [R.] Through all its [the spirit's] intervital gloom. Tennyson.

Situated between vowels; immediately preceded and followed by vowel sounds, as, p in occupy, d in idea, etc.

A world between other worlds. Holland.