interluency

English

Etymology

From Latin interluens, present participle of interluere (“to flow between”), from inter + luere.

Noun

interluency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) A flowing between; intervening water.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     those parts of Asia and America which are now disjoyned by the interluency of the Sea

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interluency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)