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

To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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.

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

Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.

Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times; recurring at regular intervals; isochronal vibrations or oscillations.

ng or indicating, equal tones, or tension. Isotonic system (Mus.), a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.

is constant for an interval of time (t), the energy (H) in heat units equals i2Rt, R being resistance.

A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty- five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence grated by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church. One invariable condition of granting this indulgence is the confession of sins and receiv…

ce it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of notes and intervals required in the various keys is much gr…

See Graylag. Lag of the tide, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to priming of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon…

A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.

ing stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser.

confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Insanity or madness; properly, the kind of insanity which is broken by intervals of reason, -- formerly supposed to be influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange l…

A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. Shak.

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.