interspace

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The topmost boundary of the interspace is formed by the lowermost arch, and its lowermost boundary by the topmost straight ridge.

From Finger Prints by Galton, Francis, Sir

Carina; the interspace between the carina and the scuta and terga is not wide.

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

Whenever a favourable interspace of this character occurred, the dragoons endeavoured to form and use the advantage it presented for effecting a charge.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by De Quincey, Thomas

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