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‖n. [ NL. See Endoderm. ] (Bot.) A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. entremise, fr. s'entremettre. See Entermete. ] Mediation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; over + &unr_; skin, fr. &unr_; to skin. See Tear, v. t. ] 1. (Anat.) The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) The process or state of being homoiothermal.
Syn. -- homoiothermism, homoiothermy. [ PJC ]

n. (Biol.) The process or state of being homoiothermal.
Syn. -- homeothermism, homeothermy. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL. See Hypo-, and Derma. ] 1. (Biol.) Same as Hypoblast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Same as Hypoderma, 2.

a. Not permissible. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L. inermis, inermus; pref. in- not + arma arms: cf. F. inerme. ] (Bot.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. entremise. See Intermission. ] Interference; interposition. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. intermissio: cf. F. intermission. See Intermit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rest or intermission none I find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically: The short period between acts of a play, concert, opera, or other public performance when the audience may leave their seats for refreshment; -- it usually lasts from 10 to 20 minutes. [ PJC ]

4. (Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Intervention; interposition. [ Obs. ] Heylin.

Syn. -- Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. “Intermissive miseries.” Shak. “Intermissive wars.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as panspermia. [ PJC ]

{ } n. (Biol.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. permiscere to mingle; per + miscere to mix. ] Capable of being mixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Permit. ] A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- Per*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mis"si*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. permissio: cf. F. permission. See Permit. ] The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

High permission of all-ruling Heaven. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have given me your permission for this address. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Leave; liberty; license. -- Leave, Permission. Leave implies that the recipient may decide whether to use the license granted or not. Permission is the absence on the part of another of anything preventive, and in general, at least by implication, signifies approval. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. “By his permissive will.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a permissive manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. permistio, permixtio, fr. permiscere, permistum, and permixtum. See Permiscible. ] The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. [ Written also permixtion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praetermissio. See Pretermit. ] 1. The act of passing by or omitting; omission. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rhet.) See Preterition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; seed, sperm + -ism. ] (Biol.) The theory, formerly held by many, that the sperm or spermatozoon contains the germ of the future embryo; animalculism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Biol.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person skilled in taxidermy. [ 1913 Webster ]