Noun, : the interstices between the slats of a fence. From Dictionary.com.
Moreover, it has to be created within what I call the interstices of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference
In the beginning no such periods, called interstices, were appointed, though the tendency to orderly promotion is attested already in the pastoral Epistles (I. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Your accomplished chef can fill in the interstices. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
He peeped through the interstices of the hedge, and saw Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Over these also are mullioned windows with blank interstices. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
In the second place it fills all interstices where sap would collect. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference
A few sticks of timber were wedged in the interstices of the nearest rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The interstices were filled in with chips and clay, which was called "chinking.". From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Nearer came the feet, and I peered between the interstices of the screening balustrade. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
The air necessary for combustion must pass through the interstices of the coal on the grate. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
And he would exist solely in the interstices between self-deliverance and immutable stillness. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
The quality in all substances to have interstices, or points of separation, between the molecules. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Here they are, all fresh roasted, with a few added words to fill in the interstices of his portrait. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
Pure Mathematics, all the formulas which could be crowded into the interstices between his Latin and Greek. From Wordnik.com. [A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"] Reference
Numbers of different kinds of shell-fish were attached to the coral branches, or wedged into their interstices. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
They had to be applied in melted form for filling interstices of wounds in which sap might collect and ferment. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference
He knew that if the water in the interstices of the clay should freeze, the beautiful lines would be distorted. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The interstices, which are left on account of the thickness of the building material, are stopped up with chips and mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
This treatment, however, leaves the dead bodies of the bacteria upon the surface and blocking the interstices of the filter. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
I can see a whole flood of exquisite inhibitions heaped up for burial and dry rot within the caverns and the interstices of his soul. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
The interstices -- space however having been left for a door -- were filled up with willow or hazel saplings in the form of basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
The quarters and the hours chimed, until the gray spring dawn crept through the interstices of the blinds, and fatigue grew more leaden than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
These decorations of the walls and cupolas are richly gilded, and the interstices paneled with lapis lazuli and other brilliant and enduring colors. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The sky was mottled with clouds driving impetuously across the zenith, the bright moon gleaming through the interstices as they rapidly passed along. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
It follows from the foregoing statement, that if there are little interstices between the molecules, the various bodies can be compressed together. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Inside, the cork should be glued down on top and bottom; on this a few small strips of the same cork running across with interstices left between them. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
She looked down, as if rather embarrassed, and dug at the interstices of the rough stone pavement with her dainty, and altogether unnautical, sunshade. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
They encamp in a square, and their grain-bags piled over each other breast-high, with interstices left for their matchlocks, make no contemptible fortification. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The old furrows were as they had been before -- the stones, gray, weather-beaten, and covered with lichen, while heather and wildflowers grew in the interstices. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Its source is not well understood, but Boussingault supposes it to have existed in the interstices of the plant, and to have escaped during the course of the experiment. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
Stones that have flat beds like many sandstones and limestones can be laid upon layers of dry concrete and have the vertical interstices filled with dry concrete by tamping. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
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