intermaxillary 
2. One of the foremost pair of the upper jaw- 
bones in most teleostean fishes, cm<-e generally 
supposed to be homologous with the intermaxil- 
lary of the higher vertebrates. 3. The inter- 
maxillary lobe of an insect. See I. 
intermeant (in'ter-men), n. [< inter- + mean**.] 
Some thing dan* lathe mean time; an interact. 
The propensity to laugh at the expense of good sense 
and propriety is well ridiculed in the /ntermeane at the 
end of the first uetof the "Staple of Newcs" by Jonson. 
xtriitt, SporU and Pastimes, p. 282. 
intermeationt (iu'ter-me-a'shon), . [< L. as 
if *intt:rnte<itio(n-), < intenueare, pass through or 
between, < inter, between, + meare, pass: see 
meatus.] A flowing or passing between. Bai- 
ley, 1731. 
intermeddle (in-t6r-med'l), r. ; pret. and pp. 
intermeddled, ppr. intermeddling. [< ME. enter- 
medlen, entremvdlen, < OF. cntrcwedlcr, entremes- 
ler, entremeller (> ME. inlirnii'lliii: see inter- 
mell), F. entremcler (= Pr. entremesclar = Sp. 
entremezclar = It. intraminchiare), intermeddle, 
< entre, between, 4- medler, mesler, etc., mix, 
meddle: see inter- and meddle.] I. intrans. 1. 
To take part in some matter ; especially, to in- 
terfere officiously or impertinently; take part 
in business with which one has no concern. 
Henry, Earl of Northumberland, who, though on King 
Richard B Side, intermeddled not In the Battel, was Incon- 
tinently taken into Favour, and made of the Council. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 238. 
And [they] over boldly intermeddle with duties whereof 
no charge was ever given them. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 2. 
It IB usually thought, with great justice, a very imper- 
tinent thing In a private man to intermeddle in matters 
which regard the state. Steele, Quardlan, No. 128. 
2f. To give one's self concern. 
Through desire a man, having separated himself, seek- 
eth and intermeddleth with all wisdom. Prov. xvHl. 1. 
= Svn. Interfere, Intervene, etc. See interpose. 
II. t trans. To intermix; mingle; mix up. 
Agein the peple of Pounce Antonye, that alle were en- 
termedled with the peple of Arthur, that foughten full 
hardc on that oo part and the tother. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), lit 402. 
He hath intermedled in his historic certaine things con- 
trary to the trueth. UaKluyt's Voyages, L 672. 
This kynde of workemanshippe intermedled of stone and 
timber ... is no mil syght. 
Qolding, tr. of Caesar, foL 191. 
Verltie Is perfect when It Is not intermedled with fals- 
hood. Demi Conjia'd (159). 
intermeddler (in-ter-med'ler), . One who in- 
termeddles ; a meddler in affairs which do not 
concern him, or with which he cannot properly 
interfere. 
Nor did I ever know a Man that touch'd on Conjugal 
Affairs could ever reconcile the jarring Humours, but in 
a common hatred of the Intermedler. 
Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, 1. 1. 
''The consequence was, as but too of ten happens, "wrote 
the afflicted intermeddler, "that all concerned became In- 
imical to me." E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 106. 
intermeddlesome (in-ter-med'1-sum), a. [< 
intermeddle + -some.] Prone to Intel-meddle ; 
meddlesome. Imp. Diet. 
intermeddlesomeness (in-ter-med'1-sum-nes), 
. The quality of being intermeddlesome. 
Imp. Met. 
intermedia, . Plural of intermedium. 
intermediacy (in-ter-me'di-a-si), n. [< inter- 
ntcdia(te) + -cy.] The state of being interme- 
diate, or of acting intermediately ; intermediate 
agency ; interposition ; intervention. 
In birds the auditory nerve is affected by the impres- 
sions made on the membrane by only the intermediacy of 
the columella. Derham, Physico-Theology, iv. 3, note 20. 
intermedia! (in-ter-me'di-al), a. [< L. inter- 
iHt-dius, that is between (see intermedium), + 
-<il.~l Intermediate ; intervening ; intervenient. 
Since all thy creatures obey thy word, I alone may not 
disorder the creation and cancel those bands and inter- 
medial links of subordination. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 64. 
Black, white, red, or any other of the intermedial colours. 
Evelyn, Sculpture, 1. 6. 
intermediant (in-t6r-me'di-an), a. [< L. inter- 
ini-iliiHs, that is between (see intermedium'), + 
-tin.] Lying between ; intermediate. Blonnt. 
intermediary (in-ter-me'di-a-ri), a. and n. 
[= F. intcrmi'dittirc = Sp. intermediar = It. in- 
ttrmediario; < L. intermedius, that is between 
(see intcrmi'diiini), + -ary.] I. a. Being or oc- 
curring between; having an intermediate po- 
sition or action: as, an intrrmfiliury process. 
Intermediary function, in math., a function holomor- 
phic in the whole plane which satisfies the conditions 
f (* -f u<)=e" ' fi 
where w and w are t[iiusi-perioda. 
3147 
II. .; pi. iiitifiii<-iliuri<'n(-r'u.). One who or 
that which interposes or is intermediate; an 
intermediate agent; a go-between. 
They I senates] have been Instruments, but never inter- 
mediaries. Landor. 
England was acting only as an intermediary. 
The Atlanta, XLIX. 7"i. 
Sometimes two or three intermediaries would be em- 
ployed. J. R. Soley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. IK). 
The enterprising Hellenes becoming the intermediaries 
between the native Libyan population of the Interior and 
the outer world. B. V. Head, lilstoria Numorum, p. 725. 
intermediate (in-ter-me'di-at), v. i. ; pret. and 
pp. intermediated,ppi.interntediating. [< ML.ta- 
li rnii'diatus, pp. of intermediare, come between, 
act as a mediator, < L. intermedius, that is be- 
tween: see intermedium. Cf. mediate.] To act 
intermediately; intervene; interpose. 
Ill tell ye what conditions threaten danger, 
Unless yon intermediate. Ford, Lady's Trial, v. 1. 
By interposing your intermediatiny authority, endeavour 
to avert the horrid cruelty of this edict. 
MilUm, Letters of State, Oliver to Oustavus Adolphus. 
intermediate (in-ter-me ' di-at), a. and n. [= 
F. iiittrmediat, < ML. intermediatus : see inter- 
mediate, v.] I. a. Situated between two ex- 
tremes ; coming between, in either position or 
degree; intervening; interposed: generally fol- 
lowed by between when the extremes are men- 
tioned: as, an intermediate space; intermediate 
obstacles. 
Arvlragus, the king's son, . . . having escaped with life 
in the late battle, had employed the intermediate time in 
privately collecting his father's scattered forces, to put 
him again into a condition of facing the enemy. 
W. Mason, Caractacus, Arg. 
These plants are beautifully intermediate between the 
oxlip and the primrose. 
Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 70. 
Intermediate area, a part of an insect's wing between 
the subcostal and the internal vein. Intermediate ge- 
nus, in logic, a genus narrower than the widest and wider 
than the narrowest class. Intermediate grade or 
school, in the system of graded common schools in the 
United States, the grade or department next above the 
primary and below the grammar grade. See grammar- 
school, 2. Intermediate palpi, the maxillary palpi of 
those insects in which the outer lobes of the maxilke 
are palplfonn, so that apparently there are three pairs of 
palpi, two on the maxilla) and one on the labium.as in the 
Cicindelidte and Carabidts. Intermediate rafter. See 
rafter. Intermediate state, in theol., the state or con- 
dition of souls after death and before the resurrection 
of the body ; by extension of meaning, the place of de- 
parted spirits, as distinct from both earth and heaven; 
Hades. Intermediate terms, in arith. and alg., the 
terms of a progression or proportion between the first and 
last, which are called the extremes: thus, in the propor- 
tion 2 : 4 : : 6 : 12. four and six are the intermediate terms. 
Intermediate witness or authority, one who wit- 
nesses to a thing not by virtue of his own direct know- 
ledge of it, but resting on other testimony. 
H. n. 1. In raaM., a syzygetie function: thus, 
if U and V are quantics of the same order, and 
if /I and // are indeterminate constants, HI + /uV 
is ian intermediate of U andV. 2. An interme- 
diary. [Rare.] 
That sea he had read of, though never yet beheld, . . . 
gladly would he have hailed it as an intermediate betwixt 
the sky and the earth. 
O. Macdonald, Warlock o' Glenwarlock. 
intermediately (in-t&r-me'di-at-li), adv. In an 
intermediate manner; by way'of intervention. 
Johnson. 
intermediation (in-ter-me-di-a'shon), n. [< 
intermediate + -ion, after mediation.] The act 
of intermediating, or the state of being inter- 
mediate ; intervention ; interposition ; interme- 
diacy. 
An external action being related to a feeling only through 
an intermediate nervous change, the intermediation can- 
not well be left out of sight. 
H. Spencer, Prln. of Psychol., f 77. 
The latter consists of a lateral arch upon each Bide, unit- 
ed ... by the intermediation of medial basal elements 
below. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 114. 
intermediator (in-ter-me'di-a-tor), n. [< ML. 
intermediator, a middleman, < L. 'inter, between, 
+ LL. mediator, one who mediates: see media- 
tor.] A mediator between parties; any person 
or thing that acts intermediately. 
In touch, it is the epidermis . . . which Is the inter- 
mediator between the nerve and the physical agent. 
Huxley and Youmanx. PhysioL, S 240. 
intermedietto (in-tfer-me-di-et'o), n. [It., 
dim. of intermedia, an interlude: see interme- 
dious.] A short interlude. 
intermedioust, [= F. intermede = Sp. Pg. 
It. itili'i-iiK'/lio. intermediate; as a noun, an in- 
terlude; < L. intermedius, that is between: see 
inli'riiiciliiiiii.] Intermediate. 
There was nothing intennedious, or that could possibly 
be thrust in between them. 
Owiworth, Intellectual System. 
intermezzo 
intermedium (iu-tt-r-me'di-uiu), . ; pi. inter- 
iii' did (-ii). [< L. int<-nii' ilium, neut. of interme- 
iliii.t, that is between, < inter, between, + mcdius, 
middle: M-C mi ilium.] 1. Intermediate space. 
[Rare.] 2. That which intervenes; an inter- 
vening agent or medium. 
The influence of the elastic intermedium on the voltaic 
rc. W. Jt. drone, C'orr. of Forces, p. 7. 
3. In imii!. and zool., a median carpal or tarsal 
bone of the proximal row, so called from its 
situation between the ulnare and the radiale 
in the carpus, and between the tibiale and the 
fibulare in the tarsus. See cuts under carpux 
and Ichthyosauria. 
intenneett, * [Early mod. E. entretneete; ap- 
par. < inter- + nteefl, but perhaps for intermete, 
old form of intermit, mingle.] To meet toge- 
ther; mingle. 
Upon her cheekes the Llllie and the Rose 
Did entremeete wyth equall change of hewe. 
<Jaseoigne, Dan Bartholomew of Bath. 
intermellt (in-ter-mel'), [< ME. intermetteit, 
entermellen, < OF. entremeller, var. of entremcttler 
(F. entremcler), intermix: see intermeddle.] I. 
trans. To intermix; intermingle. 
U. intrans. To interfere ; meddle. 
But thay loved eche other passynge well, 
That no spyes durst with thaine intermell. 
MS. Lansd. 208, f. 19. (UaUiwell.) 
To ... boldly intermel 
With sacred things. 
Marston, Scourge of VUlanie, Satire Ix. 110. 
intermembral (in-ter-mem'bral), a. [< L. in- 
ter, between, + membrum, member, + -al.] Ex- 
isting (as a relation) between the limbs: as, 
intermembral homology (the homological corre- 
spondence between the fore and hind limbs of 
vertebrates or the corresponding members of 
other animals). 
intermenstrual (in-ter-men'stro-al), a. [< in- 
ter- + menstrua + -al.] Occurring between the 
menstrual periods. 
interment (in-ter'ment), n. [< ME. enterment, 
entierment, < OF. enterrement, < ML. interrnien- 
tum, burial, < interrare, bury, inter: see inter 1 
and -ment.] The act of interring or depositing 
in the earth ; burial ; sepulture. 
Achilles hade appetite, & angardly dissiret, 
The Citie for to se, and the solemne fare 
At the entierment full triet of the tru prlnse. 
Destruction o/ Troy (E. E. T. S.), L 8108. 
Interment In churches of favourite martyrs and apostles 
was at one time much sought after. Encyc. Brit., IX. 826. 
intermention (in-ter-men'shon), v. t. [< inter- 
+ mention.] To mention among others ; include 
in mentioning. [Bare.] 
There is scarce any grievance or complaint come before 
us in this place wherein we do not find him [Archbishop 
Laud] intermentioned. Grimstone. (Latham.) 
intermesenteriaKin-ter-mez-en-te'ri-al), a. [< 
iwter- + mesentery + -al.] Same as intermesen- 
teric. G. C. Bourne, Micros. Science, XXVIII. 
34. 
intermesenteric (in-ter-mez-en-ter'ik), a. [< 
inter- + mesentery + -ic.] Situated between 
mesenteries; in Actinozoa, noting specifically 
the chambers between the partitions or mes- 
enteries which radiate from the gastric sac to 
the body-wall. See cut under Actinozoa. 
As the mesenteries increase in number, the tentacles 
grow out as diverticula of the intermetenterie spaces. 
Huxley, Encyc. Brit., I. 130. 
intermesst, . [< OF. entremets, F. entremets, 
something put between, a side dish: see entre- 
mets.] An interlude. 
I likewise added my little History of Chalcography, a 
treatise of the perfection of Payntlng. . . . with some 
other ititermesaes which might divert within doorea. 
Evelyn, To Lady Sunderlami 
intermett, v. [ME. mtermetten: see entermit.] 
Same as entermit. 
For loue of hir even cristene thei intennettid hem with 
worldely besynes in helpyuge of hir sugettis ; and sothly 
that was churite. 
Uampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 26. 
intermetacarpal (in-ter-met-a-kar'pal), a. [< 
inter- + metacarpus + -al.] Situated between 
metacarpal bones: as, intermetacarpal liga- 
ments. 
intermetatarsal (in-ter-met-a-tar'sal), a. [< 
iiitfr- + metatarsal.] Situated between meta- 
tarsal bones: as, intermetatarsal ligaments. 
intermew (in-ter-mu'), r. i. [< inter- + mev:*. 
Cf. LL. intermutatus, interchanged.] To molt 
while in confinement : said of hawks. 
intermezzo (in-ter-med'zo), H. [It., < L. inter- 
mt'dins, that is between : see intermedium.] 1. 
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