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To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. Spenser.

A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

e six Hyksos kings was little more than 100 years. It is supposed that they were Asiatic Semites.

Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.

a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell.

To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit. [R.] Boyle.

, a flower wanting either stamens or pistils. Gray. -- Imperfect interval (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth. -- Imperfect number (Math.), a number either greater or less than the sum of its several divisors; in the former case, it is called also a defective number; in the latter, an abu…

Incapable of being fatigued; not readily exhausted; unremitting in labor or effort; untiring; unwearying; not yielding to fatigue; as, indefatigable exertions, perseverance, application. "A constant, indefatigable attendance." South. Upborne with indefatigable wings. Milton.

Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the churc…

vicissitudes of exertion and inertion of the arterial system constitute the paroxysms of remittent fever. E. Darwin.

Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness, n.

To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.

To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

Characterized by persistence; intent; unremitted; assiduous; intense. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

t is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

To emit rays; to shine.

Not remitting; unforgiving.

A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish g…

intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.