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Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.

The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. Richardson.

Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news. Cowper.

In an interesting manner.

The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.

Included between two plane surfaces or faces; as, an interfacial angle.

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office. [U.S.]

To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.

The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.

One who interferes.

By or with interference.

An instrument for measuring small movements, distances, or displacements by means of the interference of two beams of light; -- called also refractometer.

To flow in. [R.] Holland.

Flowing between or among; intervening. Boyle.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.

To interleave. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Between follicles; as, the interfollicular septa in a lymphatic gland.

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