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ts 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.

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.

Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolæ, between them.

A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.

int, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.

A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters. "A secret grate of iron bars." Shak.

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.

Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants.

plant (Bot.), an aquatic plant of Madagascar (Ouvirandra fenestralis), whose leaves have interstices between their ribs and cross veins, so as to resemble latticework. A second species is O. Berneriana. The genus is merged in Aponogeton by recent authors.

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.

To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. That labyrinth is easily pervaded. Blackstone.

A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.