| v. i. | 1. | |
| 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. |
| 3. | To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel. |
| 4. | In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter. |
| v. t. | 1. | To come between. |
| n. | 1. | A coming between; intervention; meeting. |