All the interim is Like a phantasms, or a hideous dream.
Shak.
2. (Hist.) 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.
In*te"ri*or (?), a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. intérieur.
See Inter- , and cf. Intimate.]
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; inland; as, the interior
parts of a region or country.
Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any
rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by
these lines and another intersecting them; -- called also internal
angle. -- Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit of
the earth. -- Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in
a nut; a female screw.
Syn. -- Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
In*te"ri*or, n. 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of
a thing; the inside.