interchain

English

Etymology

Adjective

interchain (comparative more interchain, superlative most interchain)

(chemistry) Between chains (of a polymer etc)

Verb

interchain (third-person singular simple present interchains, present participle interchaining, simple past and past participle interchained)

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as if by a chain.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  Two bosoms interchained with an oath.

Anagrams

Cerinthian

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