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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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33 words match “MITTENT”

To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever. Pope.

MALARIAL; MALARIAN; MALARIOUS a.

s of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.

wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements.

igestion, ferments. Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a colorless alkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important of the digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food…

An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day. Milton.

SEMITERTIAN a. 2 definitions

Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent. -- n.

To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer. The shimmering glimpses of a stream. Tennyson.

Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry. Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also laryngismus st…

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

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

WATER POCKET n.

A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]