Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Interstice \In*ter"stice\ (?; 277), n.; pl. {Interstices}. [L.
   interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to
   set, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. interstice. See {Stand}.]
   1. That which intervenes between one thing and another;
      especially, a space between things closely set, or between
      the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a
      crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a
      wall.

   2. An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the
      plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between
      the reception of the various degrees of orders.

            Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin.
                                                  --Addis &
                                                  Arnold.