Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 62

Interparietal (a.) Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture.

Interparietal (n.) The interparietal bone or cartilage.

Interpause (n.) An intermission.

Interpeal (v. t.) To interpel.

Interpedencular (a.) Between peduncles; esp., between the peduncles, or crura, of the cerebrum.

Interpel (v. t.) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.

Interpellant (a.) Interpelling; interrupting.

Interpellant (n.) One who, or that which, interpels.

Interpellate (v. t.) To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body.

Interpellation (n.) The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption.

Interpellation (n.) The act of interposing or interceding; intercession.

Interpellation (n.) An act of interpellating, or of demanding of an officer an explanation of his action; imperative or peremptory questioning; a point raised in a debate.

Interpellation (n.) A official summons or citation.

Interpenetrate (v. t.) To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

Interpenetrate (v. i.) To penetrate each the other; to penetrate between bodies or their parts.

Interpenetration (n.) The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.

Interpenetrative (a.) Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.

Interpetalary (a.) Between the petals of a flower.

Interpetiolar (a.) Being between petioles. Cf. Intrapetiolar.

Interphalangeal (a.) Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations.

Interpilaster (n.) The interval or space between two pilasters.

Interplace (v. t.) To place between or among; as, to interplace a name.

Interplanetary (a.) Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces.

Interplay (n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.

Interplead (v. i.) To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader.

Interpleader (n.) One who interpleads.

Interpleader (n.) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him.

Interpledge (v. t.) To pledge mutually.

Interpoint (v. t.) To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate.

Interpolable (a.) That may be interpolated; suitable to be interpolated.

Interpolated (imp. & p. p.) of Interpolate

Interpolating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interpolate

Interpolate (v. t.) To renew; to carry on with intermission.

Interpolate (v. t.) To alter or corrupt by the insertion of new or foreign matter; especially, to change, as a book or text, by the insertion of matter that is new, or foreign to the purpose of the author.

Interpolate (v. t.) To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

Interpolated (a.) Inserted in, or added to, the original; introduced; foisted in; changed by the insertion of new or spurious matter.

Interpolated (a.) Provided with necessary interpolations; as, an interpolated table.

Interpolated (a.) Introduced or determined by interpolation; as, interpolated quantities or numbers.

Interpolation (n.) The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.

Interpolation (n.) That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.

Interpolation (n.) The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.

Interpolator (n.) One who interpolates; esp., one who inserts foreign or spurious matter in genuine writings.

Interpone (v. t.) To interpose; to insert or place between.

Interponent (n.) One who, or that which, interposes; an interloper, an opponent.

Interposal (n.) The act of interposing; interposition; intervention.

Interposed (imp. & p. p.) of Interpose

Interposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interpose

Interpose (v. t.) To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.

Interpose (v. t.) To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.

Interpose (v. t.) To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument.

Interpose (v. i.) To be or come between.

Interpose (v. i.) To step in between parties at variance; to mediate; as, the prince interposed and made peace.

Interpose (v. i.) To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.

Interpose (n.) Interposition.

Interposer (n.) One who, or that which, interposes or intervenes; an obstacle or interruption; a mediator or agent between parties.

Interposit (n.) An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another.

Interposition (n.) The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

Interposition (n.) The thing interposed.

Interposure (n.) Interposition.

Interpreted (imp. & p. p.) of Interpret

Interpreting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interpret

Interpret (v. t.) To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.

Interpret (v. t.) To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.

Interpret (v. i.) To act as an interpreter.

Interpretable (a.) Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.

Interpretament (n.) Interpretation.

Interpretation (n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

Interpretation (n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

Interpretation (n.) The power or explaining.

Interpretation (n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

Interpretation (n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

Interpretative (a.) Designed or fitted to interpret; explanatory.

Interpretative (a.) According to interpretation; constructive.

Interpretatively (adv.) By interpretation.

Interpreter (n.) One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

Interpretive (a.) Interpretative.

Interpubic (a.) Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.

Interpunction (n.) The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation.

Interradial (a.) Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoology, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.

Interramal (a.) Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

Interreceive (v. t.) To receive between or within.

Interregency (n.) An interregnum.

Interregent (n.) A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum.

Interregnums (pl. ) of Interregnum

Interregnum (n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.

Interregnum (n.) Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.

Interreign (n.) An interregnum.

Interrelated (a.) Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

Interrelation (n.) Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.

Interrenal (a.) Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes.

Interrenal (n.) The interrenal body.

Interrepellent (a.) Mutually repellent.

Interrer (n.) One who inters.

Interrexes (pl. ) of Interrex

Interreges (pl. ) of Interrex

Interrex (n.) An interregent, or a regent.

Interrogating (imp. & p. p.) of Interrogate

Interrogate (v. t.) To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

Interrogate (v. i.) To ask questions.

Interrogate (n.) An interrogation; a question.

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