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That part of the hind leg of the horse and allied animals, between the hock, or ham, and the pastern joint.

d to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin.

Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between rivers. [R.] "An interamnian country." J. Bryant.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces.

Existing between royal courts. [R.] "Interaulic politics." Motley.

Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

The space between two axes. See Axis, 6. The doors, windows, niches, and the like, are then placed centrally in the interaxes. Gwilt.

Between the arms.

Between the branchiæ.

among others, as a verse in a stanza; specif. (Geol.), to introduce as a bed or stratum, between the layers of a regular series of rocks. Beds of fresh-water shells . . . are intercalated and interstratified with the shale. Mantell.

ine, or verse in a metrical composition; specif. (Geol.), the intrusion of a bed or layer between other layers. Intercalations of fresh-water species in some localities. Mantell.

Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion.