Available Definitions:
1) v. t. - Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener.
2) v. t. - Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
3) n. - To cause or permit to share.
4) n. - Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
5) n. - Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
6) n. - Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
7) n. - Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
8) n. - Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
9) n. - The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.