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<hw>In*te"ri*or*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Internally; inwardly.</def>

<h1>Interjacence, Interjacency</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw><hw>In`ter*ja"cence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>In`ter*ja"cen*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Interjacent</er>.]</ety> <def>The state of being between; a coming or lying between or among; intervention; also, that which lies between.</def>

<blockquote>England and Scotland is divided only by the <b>interjacency</b> of the Tweed. <i>Sir M. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Interjacent</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*ja"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>interjacens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>interjacere</ets> to lie between; <ets>inter</ets> between + <ets>jac<?/re</ets> to lie.]</ety> <def>Lying or being between or among; intervening; <as>as, <ex>interjacent</ex> isles</as>.</def>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Interjaculate</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*jac"u*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To ejaculate parenthetically.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Interjangle</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*jan"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Daniel.</i>

<h1>Interject</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*ject"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Interjected</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Interjecting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>interjectus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>interjicere</ets> to interject; <ets>inter</ets> between + <ets>jac<?/re</ets> to throw. See <er>Jet</er> a shooting forth.]</ety> <def>To throw in between; to insert; to interpose.</def>

<i>Sir H. Wotton.</i>

<h1>Interject</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*ject"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To throw one's self between or among; to come between; to interpose.</def>

<i>Sir G. Buck.</i>

<h1>Interjection</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*jec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>interjectio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>interjection</ets>. See <er>Interject</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>interjection</b> of laughing. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as <i>O</i>! <i>Alas</i>! <i>Ha ha</i>! <i>Begone</i>! etc. Compare <er>Exclamation</er>.</def>

<blockquote>An <b>interjection</b> 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. <i>Earle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How now! <b>interjections</b>? Why, then, some be of laughing, as, ah, ha, he! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Interjectional</h1> <Xpage=777>

<hw>In`ter*jec"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; <as>as, an <ex>interjectional</ex> remark</as>.</def>

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