*inter*

n. One who anoints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make wintry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. kalk (L. calx, calcis) lime + E. sinter. ] See under Calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., a carpenter, a woodpecker. ] A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cintre. ] (Arch.) See Center. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who depaints. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disinterred p. pr. & vb. n. Disinterring. ] 1. To take out of the grave or tomb; to unbury; to exhume; to dig up. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. désintéresser to deprive of interest in; pref. dés- (L. dis-) + intéresser to interest, fr. L. interesse to import, concern. See Interest, and cf. Disinterest. ] To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désintéressement. ] Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [ Obs. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. Disinterested. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of interest or interested motives. [ Obs. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Disinteressed. ] Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage; free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested decision or judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. Channing.

Syn. -- Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Uninteresting. [ Obs. ] “Disinteresting passages.” Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G.; hinter behind + land land. ] a remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called
doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.
Syn. -- backwoods, back country, boondocks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Computers) A type of printer used as a peripheral device for computers, in which the color is applied to the paper by spraying liquid ink onto paper through tiny orifices in a moving print head, to construct the desired pattern on the paper by placing one dot or several dots at a time on the paper. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interred p. pr. & vb. n. Interring ] [ OE. enteren, OF. enterer, enterrer, LL. interrare; L. pref. in- in + terra the earth. See Terrace. ] To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. inter, prep., among, between, a compar. form of in in; akin to intra, intro, within, Skr. antar between, in, and E. in. See In, and cf. Entrails, Interior, Enter-, Exterior. ] A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. inter- + act. Cf. Entr'acte. ] A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time. Chesterfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact. Emerson. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Intermediate action. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: (Physics) The effect, such as exertion of a force, that one object exerts on another, especially the capture or emission of a particle. [ PJC ]

4. Communication between people, or the actions of people that affect others. [ PJC ]

a. Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to actions, processes, or objects involving to more than one agency (senses 4 or 5); as, interagency cooperation. [ PJC ]

n. Intermediate agency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An intermediate agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Entrail or inside. [ Obs. ] G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between alveoli; as, the interalveolar septa between adjacent air cells in the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the interambulacra. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Interambulacra E. Interambulacrums (Zool.) In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. inter- + L. amnis river: cf. L. interamnus. ] Situated between rivers. [ R. ] “An interamnian country.” J. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To animate or inspire mutually. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The interweaving of branches of trees. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem. & Physics) Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Existing between royal courts. [ R. ] “Interaulic politics.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the auricles; as, the interauricular partition of the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Arch.) Situated in an interaxis. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Situated within or between the axils of leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Interaxes (Arch.) The space between two axes. See Axis, 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

The doors, windows, niches, and the like, are then placed centrally in the interaxes. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. inter- + baste to sew. ] Patchwork. [ Obs. ] Dr. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Between the arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) See Thalamencephalon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Between the branchiæ. [ 1913 Webster ]