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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. [ 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 ]

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 ]