interviewing 
interviewing (in'ter-vu-ing), . [Verbal n. 
of interview, .] The practice of seeking inter- 
views and colloquy, especially with persons of 
some importance or consplcuoiisness, for the 
purpose of publishing their remarks in news- 
papers. 
When interviewing began to be a regular enterprise, a 
few years ago, the English leader-writers denounced it 
as the most dreadful form which American impertinence 
had yet assumed. The Nation, Nov. 29, 1883, p. 440. 
This led to an article on intervietcing in the Nation of 
January 28, 1869, which was the first formal notice of the 
practice under that name, and caused the adoption of the 
term both in this country and in England. 
The American, IX. 329. 
intervisible (in-ter-viz'i-bl), a. [< inter- + visi- 
ble.'] Mutually visible ; that may be seen the 
one from the other: applied to signal- and sur- 
veying-stations. 
intervisit (in-ter-viz'it), ?'. i. [< inter- + risit, 
v.] To exchange visits. [Rare.] 
Here we trifled and bathed, and intermitted with the 
company who frequent the place for health. 
Evelyn, Diary, June 27, 1654. 
intervisit (in-ter-viz'it), . [< intervisit, v.] 
An intermediate visit. Quarterly Rev . [Rare.] 
intervital (in-ter-vi'tal), a. [< L. inter, be- 
tween, + vita, .life: see vital.] Between two 
lives; pertaining to the intermediate state be- 
tween death and the resurrection. [Rare.] 
If Sleep and Death be truly one, 
And every spirit's folded bloom 
Thro' all its intervital gloom 
In some long trance should slumber on. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xliii. 
intervocalic (in // ter-vo-kal'ik), a. [< inter- 
+ L. vocalis, a vowel: see vocalic.] Between 
vowels. 
Showing that i ntervocalic i of the Provencal MSS. should 
not invariably be reproduced as J. 
Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 490. 
intervolivtion (in"ter-v6-lu'shon), n. [< inter- 
volve, after volution.] The state of being inter- 
volved. [Rare.] 
intervolve (in-ter-volv'), <;. /. ; pret. and pp. iii- 
tervolved, ppr. intervolving. [< L. inter, between, 
among, + volverc, roll: see volute.] To wind or 
involve reciprocally, or one within another. 
Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere 
Of planets, and of ftx'd, in all her wheels 
Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, 
Eccentric, interoolved, yet regular 
Then most when most irregular they seem. 
Milton, P. L., v. 623. 
Great Artist ! Thou, whose finger set aright 
This exquisite machine, with all its wheels, 
Though intervolv'd, exact. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 
interweave (in-ter-wev'), v. t.; pret. inter- 
wove, pp. interwoven (sometimes interwove,inter- 
weaved), ppr. interweaving. [< inter- + weave.] 
1. To weave together into a single fabric, as 
two or more different materials or strands: as, 
to interweave silk and cotton. 
A mass of silvery gauze was thrown back, revealing 
Cicely attired in an old-fashioned ball dress made of lace 
interwoven with silver threads. 
Barker's Mag., LXXVIH. 254. 
2. To intermingle as if by weaving ; blend in- 
timately; intertwine; interlace. 
Words interwove with sighs found out their way. 
MMon, P. L., i. 621. 
He so interweaves truth with probable fiction that he 
puts a pleasing fallacy upon us. Dryden. 
He has interwoven in the Body of his Fable a very beau- 
tiful and well invented Allegory. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 273. 
interwind (in-ter-wind'), v. i.; pret. and pp. in- 
terwound, ppr. interwinding. [< inter- + wind 1 , 
v.] To move in a serpentine course, as one 
among others moving in the same manner. 
[Rare.] 
Uncounted sails which . . . pass and repass, wind and 
interwind. E. S. Phelps, Sealed Orders. 
interwisht (in-ter-wish'), v. t. [< inter- + wish.] 
To wish mutually. 
The veuome of all stepdames, gamesters' gall, 
What tyrants and their subjects interwish. 
Donne, The Curse. 
interwork(in-ter-werk'), v. i. [< inter- + work:] 
1. To work together; act with reciprocal ef- 
fect. 2. To work between ; operate interme- 
diately. 
The doctrine of an interworlting providence. 
E. H. Sears, The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ, p. 335. 
interworld (in'ter-werld), re. [< inter- + world.] 
A world between other worlds. 
Other worlds, or imaginary inter-worlds and spaces be- 
tween. Ilottand, tr. of Plutarch, p. 640. 
interwoiind 1 (iu-ter-wond' or -wound'), v. t, [< 
inter- + wound 1 .] To wound mutually. 
3158 
The Captain chuses but three hundred out ; 
And, arming each but with a Trump and Torch, 
About a mighty Pagan Hoast doth march, 
Making the same, through their drad sodain sound, 
With their owne Arms themselues to inter-wound. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The t'aptaines. 
Hence discontented sects and schisms arise ; 
Hence interwounding controversies spring, 
That feed the simple, and offend the wise. 
Daniel, Musophilus. 
interwound 2 (in-ter-wound'). Preterit and past 
participle of interwind. 
interwove (in-ter-wov'). Preterit and occa- 
sional past participle of interweave. 
interwoven (in-ter-wo'vn). Past participle of 
interweave. 
interwreathe (iu-ter-reTH'), r. t. ; pret. and 
pp. inter wreathed, ppr. interwreathing. [< inter- 
+ wreathe.] To twist or plait into a wreath. 
[Rare.] 
Say, happy youth, crown'd with a heav'nly ray 
Of the first flame, and interwreathed bay, 
Inform my soul in labour to begin, 
los or anthems, paeans or a hymn. 
Lovelace, Posthuma, ii., To Mr. E. R. 
interWTOUght (in-ter-raf). A preterit and past 
participle of interwork. 
interzOOBCial (in"ter-zo-e'sial), . [< inter- + 
zoceeium + -al. ] Intervening between or among 
the zooecia of a polyzoan: as, "the interzocecial 
pores," Nature, XXX. 306. 
interzygapophysial (in-ter-zi"ga-po-fiz'i-al), . 
[< inter- + zyyapophysis + -al.] Situated be- 
tween the zygapophyses or articular processes 
of a vertebra. 
intestable (in-tes'ta-bl), a. [= F. intestable = 
It. intestabile, < L. intestaWis, disqualified from 
witnessing or making a will, < in- priv. + ten- 
tabilis, qualified to give testimony: see testable' 2 . 
Of. intestate.] Legally unqualified or disquali- 
fied to make a will : as, an idiot or a lunatic is 
intestable. 
Such persons as are intertable for want of liberty or 
freedom of will are by the civil law of various kinds ; as 
prisoners, captives, and the like. But the law of England 
does not make such persons absolutely intestable. 
Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii. 
intestacy (in-tes'ta-si), n. [< intesta(te) + -cy.] 
The condition of 'dying intestate or without 
leaving a valid will; the leaving of property 
not disposed of, or not effectually disposed of, 
by will. Partial intestacy exists where some of the 
property is effectually bequeathed, but not all. 
The statute 31 Edward III. c. 11. provides that, in case 
of intestacy, the ordinary shall depute the nearest and most 
lawful friends of the deceased to administer his goods. 
Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii. 
intestate (iu-tes'tat), . and n. [= F. intestat 
= Sp. Pg. intestado = It. intentato, < L. intesta- 
tns, having made no will, < in- priv. + testatns, 
having made a will, pp. of testari, make a will: 
see test 2 , testament. Of. intestable.] I. a. 1. 
Having made no will, or no valid will ; having 
left property not effectually disposed of by will. 
The decedent is properly said to have died intestate as to 
any part of his property not so disposed of. 
In case a person made no disposition of such of his 
goods as were testable, whether that were only part or the 
whole of them, he was, and is, said to die intestate. 
Blackstone, Com., II. xxxii. 
The ecclesiastical jurisdiction in testamentary matters 
and the administration of the goods of persons dying in- 
testate was peculiar to England and the sister kingdoms. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 400. 
Children inherited equally as co-partners the property 
of intestate parents, whether real or personal. 
Bancroft, Hist. IT. S., I. 884. 
2. Not disposed of by will ; not legally devised 
or bequeathed: as, an intestate estate intes- 
tates' Estates Act, an English statute of 1884 (47 and 48 
Viet., c. 71) relating to administration of personal estate, 
and escheat of real estate. 
II. n. A person dying without making a valid 
will, or leaving any property not effectually 
bequeathed. 
in testimonium (in tes-ti-mo'ni-um). [L.: ix, 
in, for; testimonium, ace. of testimonium, wit- 
ness, testimony: see testimony.] In witness. 
Intestina (in-tes-ti'na), n.pl. [NL., neut. pi. of 
intestinus, internal: see intestine.] Intestinal 
worms that is, worms living in the intestines 
of other animals ; entozoa in general, it was the 
first Linnean order of the class Vermes, including worms 
which for the most part inhabit the bodies of other ani- 
mals. The term has no exact technical meaning, and is 
not now in use. Also Intestinalia. 
intestinal (in-tes'ti-nal), a. [= F. intestinal 
= Sp. Pg. It. intestinale, < NL. intestinalis, (. 
li.intestinum, an intestine: see intestine, n.] 1. 
Of or pertaining to the intestine, or the intes- 
tines in general ; enteric : as, the intestinal tube 
or tract; intestinal movements. 
intestine 
The ciecum has been called the second stomach, the 
idea once being that in it the final process of intestinal 
digestion was carried out. 
B. W. Richardson, Prevent. Med., p. 117. 
2. Having an intestine or enteron: the oppo- 
site of anenterous: applied to nearly all the 
Metazoa as distinguished from the Protozoa. 
3. Inhabiting the intestine; entozoic; of 
or pertaining to the Intestina or Intestinalia. 
Intestinal fever. See feveri. Intestinal follicle. 
See follicle, 2. Intestinal glands. See gland. In- 
testinal Juice, the secretion found in the intestine, or 
more strictly that secreted by the intestinal glands them- 
selves, independently of the gastric, pancreatic, and he- 
patic contributions ; succus entericus. It has some, but 
apparently unimportant, digestive power. Intestinal 
navel, worm, etc. See the nouns. 
Intestinales (in-tes-ti-na'lez), n. pi. [NL., pi. 
of intestinalis, intestinal: see intestinal.] The 
intestinal ascidians, in which the intestinal 
canal lies entirely behind the small branchial 
sac, as in the salps: distinguished from the 
branchial ascidians. 
Intestinalia (in-tes-ti-na'li-a), n. pi. [L. , neut. 
pi. of intestinalis: Bee intestinal.] Same as In- 
testina. 
intestine (in-tes'tin), a. and n. [= F. intestin 
= Sp. Pg. It. intestine, < L. intestinus, inward, 
internal, intestine (neut. intestinum, usually in 
pi. intestina, entrails), < intus, within, < in = E. 
in : see in 1 . -Cf. internal arid entrails, from the 
same source.] I. a. 1. Internal; inward; per- 
taining to the interior part of something. 
Epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, 
Intestine stone and ulcer. Milton, P. L.,xi. 484. 
From chaos and parental darkness came 
Light, the first fruits of that intestine broil, 
That sullen ferment, which for wondrous ends 
Was ripening in itself. Keats, Hyperion, ii. 
2f. Inner; innate; inborn. 
Everything labours under an intestine necessity. 
Oudworth. 
3. Internal with regard to a company, com- 
munity, or nation; domestic: usually applied 
to what is evil: as, intestine feuds. 
Thair was not sen King Keneths days 
Sic strange intestine crewel stryf. 
Battle of Harlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 189). 
Hereof aryse these intestine batails betwixt the crysten 
kynges, to prepare the waye more esey for the Turke to 
inuade vs. Joye, Expos, of Daniel, v. 
No country in Europe . . . was so sorely afflicted with 
intestine anarchy as Castile. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., Int. 
The boycotter thus becomes the intestine enemy of so- 
ciety and its peace. The Century, XXXII. 321. 
Intestine motion, the motion of very small parts of a 
body, as of molecules. 
EC. n. In (mat. the lower part of the alimen- 
tary canal, extending from the pyloric end of the 
stomach to the anus; gut; bowel: in popular 
use usually in the plural: the guts; bowels; en- 
trails. In a wider sense, in biology, the term is also used 
to include the whole alimentary Canal or enteron. (See ali- 
mentary and enteron.) In man, as in other vertebrates and 
many invertebrates, the intestine is the tube into which 
partly digested food is received from the stomach, for the 
completion of the digestive process by the action upon 
the food of certain secretions (as the hepatic, pancre- 
atic, and intestinal), the draw- 
ing of! of the assimilable ma- 
terial by the blood-vessels and 
lacteals, and the ejection of the 
refuse or non-assimilable sub- 
stances, as feces or excrement, 
by the anus. The length of the 
human intestine is Jive or six 
times that of the body, such 
extent representing, perhaps, 
an average of relative length; 
the intestine is generally short- 
er in carnivorous animals, and 
longer in those which are her- 
bivorous. It is a musculomem- 
branous tube invested with a 
peritoneal coat, lined with mu- 
cous membrane, and having 
in its walls both longitudinal 
and circular muscular fibers. 
It lies coiled in many convolu- 
tions in the abdomen, the coils 
being freely movable, though 
the tube as a whole is held in 
place by mesenteric folds of 
,1 
Human Stomach and Intes- 
tines. 
a, vermiform appendage : 
ascending col - 
peritoneum. Into it are poured ,f"^ t &2 l i of IS- 
the secretions of the liver and mach; rf, duodenum; tfc.de- 
*, .UU....U..L... v. esophagus: 
tube in man and mammals gen- py, pyloric end of stomach. 
erallvhascaused its division ill- whence the coiled small intes- 
to a small and a largeintestine. g&fSSSSsSpg'KE 
Theformerextendsfromthepy. verse colon. 
lorus to the iliocrccal valve, and 
is subdivided into duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The 
latter consists of the crecum or head of the colon, with its 
appendix venntformis ; of the colon proper, divided into 
ascending, transverse, and descending; and of the rectum 
or straight gut, continued from the descending colon by 
the sigmoid flexure. The small intestine is smoothly and 
simply tubular ; the large is more or less extensively sac- 
fillnted. This distinction does not hold as a rule below 
