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Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.

h century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. Swift.

See Premaxilla.

An intermaxilla.

Something done in the meantime; interlude. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A flowing between. [Obs.] Bailey.

or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others. Swift.

Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n.

The act of improperly interfering. Burke.

A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera.

Interposition; intervention. Derham.

The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices.

Lying between; intervening; intermediate. "Intermedial colors." Evelyn.

Intermediate. [Obs.]

Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project. Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

ween two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors. Intermediate state (Theol.), the state or condition of the soul between the death and the resurrection of the body. -- Intermediate terms (Math.), the terms of a progression or serie…

In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.

The act of coming between; intervention; interposition. Burke.

A mediator.