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a. [ Pref. inter- + L. ramus a branch. ] (Anat.) Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To receive between or within. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An interregnum. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Interregnums [ L., fr. inter between + regnum dominion, reign. See Reign, and cf. Interreign. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. interrègne. ] An interregnum. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness; interrelation.
Syn. -- interrelation, interrelationship. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n. The interrenal body. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mutually repellent. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who inters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Interrexes L. Interreges [ L., fr. inter between + rex king. ] An interregent, or a regent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interrogating ] [ L. interrogatus, p. p. of interrogare to ask; inter between + rogare to ask. See Rogation. ] To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate,
Talker! the unreplying Fate? Emerson.

Syn. -- To question; ask. See Question. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To ask questions. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An interrogation; a question. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is interrogated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interrogatio: cf. F. interrogation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; an instance of interrogating; inquiry. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A question put; an inquiry. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A point, mark, or sign, thus [ ? ], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Usually called a question mark; called also interrogation point. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ In works printed in the Spanish language this mark is not only placed at the end of an interrogative sentence, but is also placed, inverted [ as thus (¿) ], at the beginning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gram.) A word used in asking questions; as, who? which? why? [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. interrogativus: cf. F. interrogatif. ] Denoting a question; expressed in the form of a question; as, an interrogative sentence; an interrogative pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the form of, or by means of, a question; in an interrogative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. interrogateur. ] One who asks questions; a questioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Interrogatories [ Cf. F. interrogatoire. ] A formal question or inquiry; esp. (Law), a question or series of questions asked in writing, usually as part of a lawsuit. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. interrogatorius. ] Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Interrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interrupting. ] [ L. interruptus, p. p. of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See Rupture. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ L. interruptus, p. p. ] Broken; interrupted. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Interruptedly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate with small leaflets intermixed with large ones. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, interrupts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself. [ Also spelled interruptor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. interruptio: cf. F. interruption. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest the interruption of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to interrupt; interrupting. “Interruptive forces.” H. Bushnell. -- In`ter*rupt"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]