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.