Chapter Interdiction to Interjoin of I by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Interior angle

(Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; — called also internal angle. — Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of the earth. — Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a nut; a female screw.

Syn. — Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.

Interior
(In*te"ri*or), n.

1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.

2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom.

Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department. — Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.

Interiority
(In*te`ri*or"i*ty) n. State of being interior.

Interiorly
(In*te"ri*or*ly) adv. Internally; inwardly.

Interjacence
(In`ter*ja"cence In`ter*ja"cen*cy) n. [See Interjacent.] The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between.

England and Scotland is divided only by the interjacency of the Tweed.

Sir M. Hale.

Interjacent
(In`ter*ja"cent) a. [L. interjacens, -entis, p. pr. of interjacere to lie between; inter between + jacre to lie.] Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles. Sir W. Raleigh.

Interjaculate
(In`ter*jac"u*late) v. t. To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] Thackeray.

Interjangle
(In`ter*jan"gle) v. i. To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.

Interject
(In`ter*ject") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interjected; p. pr. & vb. n. Interjecting.] [L. interjectus, p. p. of interjicere to interject; inter between + jacre to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] To throw in between; to insert; to interpose. Sir H. Wotton.

Interject
(In`ter*ject"), v. i. To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose. Sir G. Buck.

Interjection
(In`ter*jec"tion) n. [L. interjectio: cf. F. interjection. See Interject.]

1. The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.

The interjection of laughing.

Bacon.

2. (Gram.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.

An interjection implies a meaning which it would require a whole grammatical sentence to expound, and it may be regarded as the rudiment of such a sentence. But it is a confusion of thought to rank it among the parts of speech.

Earle.

How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!

Shak.