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n. 1. The act of admitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. [ 1913 Webster ]

To gain admittance into the house. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Admissibility. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see on the doors of factories, shops, etc. “No admittance.” Its secondary or moral sense, as “admittance to the church, ” is almost entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship; admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building, but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances. But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) The reciprocal of impedance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ L., let him be admitted. ] The certificate of admission given in some American colleges. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- adv. Confessedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admits. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being committed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of committing, or the state of being committed; commitment. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted. [ Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached. [ Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married ] [ Also See: loving. ]
Syn. -- attached. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Commit, v. t. ] (Law) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. comité company, and LL. comitatus jurisdiction or territory of a count, county, assize, army. The word was apparently influenced by the verb commit, but not directly formed from it. Cf. County. ] One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. [ 1913 Webster ]

Committee of the whole [ house ], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing the general legislative proceedings. The committee of the whole has its own chairman, and reports its action in the form of recommendations. --
Standing committee. See under Standing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a committee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fornicator. [ Obs. ] T. Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emittens, p. pr. emittere. ] Sending forth; emissive. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. [ pr. p. of emit (definition 2) ] giving off light or heat or radiation; as, the physical temperature of the emitting material. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. e'y^ well + &unr_; a smell. ] (Min.) A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. intermittence. ] Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intermittens, -entis, p. pr. of intermittere: cf. F. intermittent. ] Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intermittent fever (Med.), a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See Fever. --
Intermittent gearing (Mach.), gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent motion. --
Intermittent springs, springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) An intermittent fever or disease. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. intromittens, p. pr. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who intromits. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. mitten. ] 1. A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers, usually worn by women. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Baseball) A large glove, usually made of leather or similar material, with differing degrees of padding and usually some form of webbing in the large space between the thumb insert and the insert for the index finger; a baseball glove. It is used to assist in catching the baseball. The catcher's mitt has more padding and less webbing. [ PJC ]

3. A hand; -- used mostly in slang expressions; as, keep your mitts off my box of chocolates! [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. mitaine, meteyn, F. mitaine, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. miotog, Gael. miotag, Ir. & Gael. mutan a muff, a thick glove. Cf. Mitt. ] 1. A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cover for the wrist and forearm. [ 1913 Webster ]

To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [ Colloq. ] --
To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with a mitten or mittens. “Mittened hands.” Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mittens, p. pr. of mittere to send. ] Sending forth; emitting. [ Obs. ] Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., we send, fr. mittere to send. ] (Law) (a) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. Burrill. (b) A writ for removing records from one court to another. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Chem.) A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stormy petrel. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of failing to meet a financial obligation.
Syn. -- default, nonpayment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid.
Syn. -- nonpayment, default. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ [ L. nunc now + dimittis thou lettest depart. ] (Eccl.) The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who omits. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One to whom a permission or permit is given. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Allowance to enter again; a second admission. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sum or thing remitted. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) One to whom a remittance is sent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. remittens, p. pr. : cf. F. rémittent. ] Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who remits. Specifically: (a) One who pardons. (b) One who makes remittance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right he had before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., (it) is remitted. ] (Law) (a) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. (b) A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]