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‖ [ L. intra, prep., within, on the inside; akin to inter. See Inter-. ] A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells; intracellular enzymes. Contrasted with extracellular. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. (Anat.) Within the colon; as, the intracolic valve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the cranium or skull. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intractabilis: cf. F. intraitable, formerly also intractable. See In- not, and Tractable. ] Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Syn. -- Stubborn; perverse; obstinate; refractory; cross; unmanageable; unruly; headstrong; violent; ungovernable; unteachable.

-- In*tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tract"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. relating to areas between the layers of the skin.
Syn. -- intradermal, intradermic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. relating to areas between the layers of the skin. an intradermal injection
Syn. -- intradermic, intracutaneous. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as intradermal.
Syn. -- intradermal, intracutaneous. [ PJC ]

n. [ F., fr. L. intra within + F. dos the back, L. dorsum. Cf. Extrados. ] (Arch.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. intra- + L. fundere, fusum, to pour. ] The act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (Med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated within the margin. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Astron.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Chem. & Physics) Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being or occurring within a single molecule; as, intramolecular hydrogen bonds. [ PJC ]

a. Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Being within the walls, as of a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Of or pertaining to those activities occurring within a single institution or organization, such as intramural sports involving students of a single school; an intramural debate within a professional society. [ PJC ]

3. (Anat. & Med.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unquietness; restlessness. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impervious to heat; adiathermic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intragressibilis that can not be crossed. See In- not, and Transgress. ] Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passed over or crossed. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not transient; remaining; permanent. Killingbeck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. intransigeant (cf. Sp. intransigente); pref. in- not + L. transigere to come to an agreement; trans across + agere to lead, act. ] Refusing compromise; uncompromising; inflexible; irreconcilable. Lond. Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Sp. ] (Spanish Politics) The extreme radicals; the party of the irreconcilables. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intransitivus: cf. F. intransitif. See In- not, and Transitive. ] 1. Not passing farther; kept; detained. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And then it is for the image's sake and so far is intransitive; but whatever is paid more to the image is transitive and passes further. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Intransitive verbs have no passive form. Some verbs which appear at first sight to be intransitive are in reality, or were originally, transitive verbs with a reflexive or other object omitted; as, he keeps (i. e., himself) aloof from danger. Intransitive verbs may take a noun of kindred signification for a cognate object; as, he died the death of a hero; he dreamed a dream. Some intransitive verbs, by the addition of a preposition, become transitive, and so admit of a passive voice; as, the man laughed at; he was laughed at by the man. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Gram.) Without an object following; in the manner of an intransitive verb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being transmitted; as, an intransmissable illness. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The quality of being intransmutable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being transmuted or changed into another substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intrans, p. pr. of intrare to enter. See Enter. ] Entering; penetrating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to, or located on the inside of a nucleus; taking place within a nucleus; referring especially to the nucleus of a cell; as, the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Entrap. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Rolleston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the territory or a territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the thorax or chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the tropics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage; an intrauterine device. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A contraceptive device consisting of a small, usually plastic object placed within the uterus to prevent conception; also called IUD. [ PJC ]

a. Between valves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Within the veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Administered by injection into a vein; as, an intravenous antibiotic infusion. [ PJC ]