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Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.

An intervening period of time; interval. [Obs.] Gower.

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.

To come between. [R.] Self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates. De Quincey.

The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

tridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.

ormal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.

d bears from the ship. -- To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.

A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

acteristic dress or outward appearance. " April's livery." Sir P. Sidney. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. Milton.

pressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.

The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between t…

the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.

Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. Sir J. Davies.

veral of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening. Sir W. Scott.

ts (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening. (b) Satan. See Lucifer. Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far. Byron.