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n. One who admits. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

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 ]

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 ]

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. One who omits. Fuller. [ 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. (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 ]

p. p. of Smite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An under committee; a part or division of a committee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who submits. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]