Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 61

Interminably (adv.) Without end or limit.

Interminate (a.) Endless; as, interminate sleep.

Interminate (v. t.) To menace; to threaten.

Interminated (a.) Interminable; interminate; endless; unending.

Intermination (n.) A menace or threat.

Intermine (v. t.) To intersect or penetrate with mines.

Intermingle (v. t.) To mingle or mix together; to intermix.

Intermingle (v. i.) To be mixed or incorporated.

Intermise (n.) Interference; interposition.

Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Intermission (n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.

Intermission (n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.

Intermission (n.) Intervention; interposition.

Intermissive (a.) Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.

Intermitted (imp. & p. p.) of Intermit

Intermitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intermit

Intermit (v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.

Intermit (v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.

Intermittence (n.) Act or state of intermitting; intermission.

Intermittent (a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.

Intermittent (n.) An intermittent fever or disease.

Intermittently (adv.) With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

Intermittingly (adv.) With intermissions; at intervals.

Intermix (v. t.) To mix together; to intermingle.

Intermix (v. i.) To be mixed together; to be intermingled.

Intermixedly (adv.) In a mixed manner.

Intermixture (n.) A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.

Intermixture (n.) Admixture; an additional ingredient.

Intermobility (n.) Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.

Intermodillion (n.) The space between two modillions.

Intermontane (a.) Between mountains; as, intermontane soil.

Intermundane (a.) Being, between worlds or orbs.

Intermundian (a.) Intermundane.

Intermural (a.) Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.

Intermured (imp. & p. p.) of Intermure

Intermuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intermure

Intermure (v. t.) To wall in; to inclose.

Intermuscular (a.) Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.

Intermutation (n.) Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.

Intermutual (a.) Mutual.

Intern (a.) Internal.

Intern (a.) To put for safe keeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Internal (a.) Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

Internal (a.) Derived from, or dependent on, the thing itself; inherent; as, the internal evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures.

Internal (a.) Pertaining to its own affairs or interests; especially, (said of a country) domestic, as opposed to foreign; as, internal trade; internal troubles or war.

Internal (a.) Pertaining to the inner being or the heart; spiritual.

Internal (a.) Intrinsic; inherent; real.

Internal (a.) Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial.

Internality (n.) The state of being internal or within; interiority.

Internally (adv.) Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface.

Internally (adv.) Hence: Mentally; spiritually.

Internasal (a.) Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage.

International (a.) Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.

International (a.) Of or concerning the association called the International.

International (n.) The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations.

International (n.) A member of the International Association.

Internationalism (n.) The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

Internationalism (n.) The doctrines or organization of the International.

Internationalist (n.) One who is versed in the principles of international law.

Internationalist (n.) A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International.

Internationalize (v. t.) To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic enterprise.

Internationally (adv.) In an international manner; from an international point of view.

Interne (a.) That which is within; the interior.

Interneciary (a.) Alt. of Internecinal

Internecinal (a.) Internecine.

Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.

Internecion (n.) Mutual slaughter or destruction; massacre.

Internecive (a.) Internecine.

Internection (n.) Intimate connection.

Interneural (a.) Between the neural arches or neural spines.

Interneural (n.) An interneural spine or cartilage.

Internity (n.) State of being within; interiority.

Internment (n.) Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Internodal (a.) Of or pertaining to internodes; intervening between nodes or joints.

Internode (n.) The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.

Internode (n.) A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges.

Internodial (a.) Internodal.

Internuncial (a.) Of or pertaining to an internuncio.

Internuncial (a.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system.

Internunciess (n.) A female messenger.

Internuncios (pl. ) of Internuncio

Internuncio (n.) A messenger between two parties.

Internuncio (n.) A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio.

Internuncioship (n.) The office or function of an internuncio.

Internuncius (n.) Internuncio.

Interoceanic (a.) Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.

Interocular (a.) Between, or within, the eyes; as, the interocular distance; situated between the eyes, as the antennae of some insects.

Interpercular (a.) Of or pertaining to the interoperculum.

Interpercular (n.) The interopercular bone.

-la (pl. ) of Interoperculum

Interoperculum (n.) The postero-inferior opercular bone, in fishes.

Interorbital (a.) Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum.

Interosculant (a.) Mutually touching or intersecting; as, interosculant circles.

Interosculant (a.) Uniting two groups; -- said of certain genera which connect family groups, or of species that connect genera. See Osculant.

Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.

Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups.

Interosseal (a.) Alt. of Interosseous

Interosseous (a.) Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

Interpale (v. t.) To place pales between or among; to separate by pales.

Interpale (v. t.) To interweave or interlace.

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