At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then.
"And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented
interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.
{ In"ter*val (?), In"ter*vale (?), } n. A tract of low ground between
hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched
by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth
from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n., 7. [Local, U. S.]
The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land.
The Century.
||In`ter*val"lum (?), n.; pl. Intervallums (#), L. Intervalla (#). [L.]
||An interval. [R.]
||
And a' shall laugh without intervallums.
Shak.
In one of these intervalla.
Chillingworth.
In`ter*va"ry (?), v. i. To alter or vary between; to change. [Obs.]
Rush.
In`ter*veined" (?), a. Intersected, as with veins.
In`ter*vene" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Intervened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Intervening.] [L. intervenire, interventum, to intervene, to hinder;
inter between + venire to come; akin to E. come: cf. F. intervenir. See
Come.]
1. To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by
between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
2. To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an
instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened
( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the
undertaking.