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A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.

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.

Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.

One who intromits.

Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate.

The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak.

One who omits. Fuller.

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.

Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.

The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.

One to whom a remittance is sent.