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A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

dard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving handwriting. -- Test tube. (Chem.) (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated tube.

ondition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin Milton. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught. Longfellow. His thanks, Her thanks, etc., of his or…

A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration.…

Permitting the passage of sound. [R.] Lowell.

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.

transform; to metamorphose. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. To transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester. Sir W. Scott.

ranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

m; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust. The hermit trimmed his little fire. Goldsmith.

One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans.

To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate. These stars not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures. Sir I. Newton. The western sky twinkled with stars. Sir W. Scott.

A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars.

To make a succession of small, tremulous, intermitted noises. The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed. Gray.

bitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.…