interspace

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His spirit of research once more encouraged, he moved towards it, and drawing it very gently, admitted his eye in the interspace.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The width of the interspace between the foramina is one-half the width of the vertebræ, though this character varies with different genera and species.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

The species in which the upper borders of the orbits approximate could be separated from those in which the frontal interspace is wider.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

These scales are generally small, and placed symmetrically in close whorls, in an imbricated order, with each scale corresponding to the interspace between two scales in the whorls above and below.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

Ah! the flowers cleave apart And their sweet fills the tender interspace; Ah! the leaves grown thereof were things to kiss Ere their fine gold was tarnished at the heart.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles