Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-TERM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. interminor.]

To menace. [Not used.] Bp. Hall.

IN-TERM-IN-A'TION, n. [L. interminor, to menace or forbid.]

A menace or threat. [Not used.] Hall.

IN-TER-MIN'GLE, v.i.

To be mixed or incorporated.

IN-TER-MIN'GLE, v.t. [inter and mingle.]

To mingle or mix together; to put some things with others. Hooker.

IN-TER-MIN'GLED, pp.

Intermixed. There trees and intermingled temples rise. Pope.

IN-TER-MING'LING, ppr.

Mingling or mixing together.

IN-TER-MIS'SION, n. [Fr. from L. intermissio. See Intermit.]

1. Cessation for a time; pause; intermediate stop; as, to labor without intermission; service or business will begin after an intermission of one hour.
2. Intervenient time. Shak.
3. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the spare of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission or abatement of fever.
4. The state of being neglected; disuse; as of words. [Little used.] B. Jonson.

IN-TER-MIS'SIVE, a.

Coming by fits or after temporary cessations; not continual. Howell.

IN-TER-MIT', v.i.

To cease for a time; to go off at intervals; as a fever. A tertian fever intermits every other day. The pulse sometimes intermits for a second of time.

IN-TER-MIT', v.t. [L. intermitto; inter and mitto, to send.]

To cause to cease for a time; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods, to intermit the plague / That needs must light on this ingratitude. Shak.

IN-TER-MIT'TED, pp.

Caused to cease for a time; suspended.

IN-TER-MIT'TENT, a.

Ceasing at intervals; as, an intermittent fever.

IN-TER-MIT'TENT, n.

A fever which entirely subsides or ceases at certain intervals. The ague and fever is called an intermittent.

IN-TER-MIT'TING, ppr.

1. Ceasing for a time; pausing.
2. Causing to cease.

IN-TER-MIT'TING-LY, adv.

With intermissions; at intervals.

IN-TER-MIX', v.i.

To be mixed together; to be intermingled.

IN-TER-MIX', v.t. [inter and mix.]

To mix together; to put some things with others; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermix'd / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

INT-ER-MIX'ED, pp.

Mingled together.

IN-TER-MIX'ING, ppr.

Intermingling.

IN-TER-MIX'TURE, n.

1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed.
2. Admixture; something additional mingled in a mass. In this hight of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

IN-TER-MO-DIL'LION, n.

In architecture, the space between two modillions. Elmes.

IN-TER-MONT'ANE, a. [L. inter and montanus, mons, a mountain.]

Between mountains; as, intermontane soil. Mease.

IN-TER-MUND'ANE, a. [L. inter and mundanus, mundus, the world.]

Being between worlds or between orb and orb; as, intermundane spaces. Locke.

IN-TER-MU'RAL, a. [L. inter and muralis, murus, a wall.]

Lying between walls. Ainsworth.

IN-TER-MUSC'U-LAR, a. [inter and muscle.]

Between the muscles. Beverly.