Definition of interstice

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Interstice (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall..

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Sipe :: Sipe (v. i.) To run or soak through fine pores and interstices; to ooze.
Transude :: Transude (v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood..
Gap-toothed :: Gap-toothed (a.) Having interstices between the teeth.
Pervade :: Pervade (v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate..
Areola :: Areola (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing..
Water-soak :: Water-soak (v. t.) To soak water; to fill the interstices of with water.
Porous :: Porous (n.) Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall..
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Catgut :: Catgut (n.) A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices..
Infiltrate :: Infiltrate (v. i.) To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.
Intersticed :: Intersticed (a.) Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.
Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders..
Nogging :: Nogging (v. t.) Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building..
Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
Interstitial :: Interstitial (a.) Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within the tissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues of animals or plants..
Percolate :: Percolate (v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain..
Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter..
Permeate :: Permeate (v. t.) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand..
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