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Without end or limit.

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. [Obs.] Akenside.

A menace or threat. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To intersect or penetrate with mines. [Obs.] Drayton.

To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.

Interference; interposition. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson.

Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent. "Intermissive miseries." Shak. "Intermissive wars." Howell.

To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.

Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.

Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever. Boyle. 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…

With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.

To mix together; to intermingle. In yonder spring of roses, intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton.

In a mixed manner.

Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.

Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.

The space between two modillions.

Between mountains; as, intermontane soil.