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To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body. Shak.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield.

Intermediate action.

Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.

Intermediate agency.

An intermediate agent.

Entrail or inside. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs.

Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.

In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum.

Situated between rivers. [R.] "An interamnian country." J. Bryant.

To animate or inspire mutually. [Obs.] Donne.

The interweaving of branches of trees. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces.

Existing between royal courts. [R.] "Interaulic politics." Motley.

Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart.

Situated in an interaxis. Gwilt.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.