Word Meanings - INTERNECINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive. Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the streets with blood. Motley. (more info) internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter between + necare to kill;

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• INTERVALLUM
  An interval. And a' shall laugh without intervallums. Shak. In one of these intervalla. Chillingworth.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• INTERAMBULACRUM
  In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum. (more info) Interambulacrums
• INTERLACE
  To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave. Severed into stripes That interlaced each other. Cowper. The epic way is every where interlaced with dialogue. Dryden. Interlacing arches
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• INTERAMBULACRAL
  Of or pertaining to the interambulacra.
• INTERCENTRUM
  The median of the three elements composing the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERIM
  A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics. (more info) 1. The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc. All
• INTERIOR
  1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. 2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore;
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• INTERRADIAL
  Between the radii, or rays; -- in zoölogy, said of certain parts of radiate animals; as, the interradial plates of a starfish.
• INTERHEMAL; INTERHAEMAL
  Between the hemal arches or hemal spines. -- n.
• SLAUGHTER
  1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• INTERDUCE
  An intertie.
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• INTERVENE
  A coming between; intervention; meeting. Sir H. Wotton.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To