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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.

The state or quality of being intricate; intricacy.

Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.

Inveteracy. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being inviolate.

Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.

Not retentive; as, an irretentive memory.

Same as Anhydrite.

without any changes in its structure, followed by division of the protoplasm of the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garde…

To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens. Shak. H. Spencer.

Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition. Richardson.

Latency. Coleridge.

The state or quality of being latent. To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. Burke. Latent buds (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes co…

In a secret or concealed manner; invisibly.

A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass. He had a cross of latoun full of stones. Chaucer.