Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TER-MAR'RY-ING, ppr.

Mutually giving and receiving in marriage; mutually connecting by marriage.

IN-TER-MEAN', n. [inter and mean.]

Interact; something done in the mean time. [Not used.] Todd.

IN-TER-ME-A'TION, n. [L. inter and meo, to flow.]

A flowing between. [Not in use.]

IN-TER-MED'DLE, v.i. [inter and meddle.]

To meddle in the affairs of others, in which one has no concern; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to intermix. The practice of Spain has been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Encyc.

IN-TER-MED'DLED, pp.

Interposed officiously; intruded.

IN-TER-MED'DLER, n.

One that interposes officiously; one who meddles, or intrudes into business to which he has no right. Swift.

IN-TER-MED'DLING, n.

Officious interposition. Hamilton.

IN-TER-MED'DLING, ppr.

Interposing officiously; intruding.

IN-TER-ME'DI-A-CY, n.

Interposition; intervention.

IN-TER-ME'DI-AL, a. [L. inter and medius, middle.]

Lying between; intervening; intervenient. Evelyn.

IN-TER-ME'DI-A-RY, n. [from intermediate.]

1. Interposition; intervention. [Not much used.] Derham.
2. Something interposed.

IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE, a. [Fr. intermediat; L. inter and medius, middle.]

Lying or being in the middle place or degree between two extremes; intervening; interposed; as, an intermediate space between hills or rivers; intermediate colors. Man has an intermediate nature and rank between angels and brutes.

IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE, n.

In chimistry, a substance which is the intermedium or means of chimical affinity, as an alkali, which renders oil combinable with water.

IN-TER-ME'DI-ATE-LY, adv.

By way of intervention.

IN-TER-ME-DI-A'TION, n.

Intervention; common means. Cheyne.

IN-TER-ME'DI-UM, n.

1. Intermediate space. Ash.
2. An intervening agent. Cowper.

IN-TER-MELL', v.t. [or v. i.; Fr. entremêler.]

To intermix or intermeddle. [Not in use.] Marston. Fisher.

IN-TER'MENT, n. [from inter.]

The act of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture.

IN-TER-MEN'TION, v.t.

To mention among other things; to include. [Not used.]

IN-TER-MI-CA'TION, n. [L. intermico; inter and mico, to shine.]

A shining between or among.

IN-TER-MI-GRA'TION, n. [L. inter and migro, to migrate.]

Reciprocal migration; removal from one country to another by men or tribes which take the place each of the other. Hale

IN-TERM'IN-A-BLE, a. [L. in and terminus, end; termino, to end.]

Boundless; endless; admitting no limit; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. Milton uses this word as an appellation of the Godhead.

IN-TER'MIN-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The state of being endless.

IN-TER'MIN-A-BLY, adv.

Without end or limit

IN-TERM'IN-ATE, a. [L. interminatus, intermino.]

Unbounded; unlimited; endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.