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† interˈpend, ppl. a. Obs. rare. [f. inter- 1 + pen v.1 (pa. pple. penned, pen'd, pent).] Shut in, confined, or enclosed between.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 76 Thus, while they [the Meneïdes] corners seeke, thin films extend From lightned lims, with small beams inter-pend [tenuesque includunt brachia pennæ]. [The ‘small beams’ are the long slender metacarpal bones between which the ‘thin film’ of a bat's wing is stretched.] |