Interclude

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interclude \In`ter*clude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Intercluded};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Intercluding}.] [L. intercludere,
     interclusum; inter between + claudere to shut. See {Close},
     and cf. {Interclose}.]
     To shut off or out from a place or course, by something
     intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt.


     --Mitford.
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           So all passage of external air into the receiver may be
           intercluded.                             --Boyle.
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