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e difficulties. And middle natures, how they long to join, Yet never pass the insuperable line Pope. The difficulty is enhanced, or is . . . insuperable. I. Taylor.

Having the pallial line entire, or without a sinus, as certain bivalve shells.

ted among others; additional; supernumerary. "Intercalary spines." Owen. This intercalary line . . . is made the last of a triplet. Beattie. Intercalary day (Med.), one on which no paroxysm of an intermittent disease occurs. Mayne.

The insertion or introduction of anything among others, as the insertion of a phrase, line, 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.

A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.

To cross each other, as lines.

Interlaced; linked together; -- said of charges or bearings. See Fretted.

on or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal angle. -- Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth. -- Interior scre…

To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.

Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

The act of interlining.

Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation. Bp. Burnet.

To link together; to join, as one chain to another. Dryden.

To unite by locking or linking together; to secure in place by mutual fastening. My lady with her fingers interlocked. Tennyson.

age played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.

To cut into one another; to meet and cross each other; as, the point where two lines intersect.

The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.

, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line. -- Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n.

e coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.