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ss; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.

Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.

With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.

An intermission. [R.]

To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission. South.

one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun…

Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.

The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light.

Not capable of being remitted; irremissible. Holinshed.

Nonresistance; passive submission.

to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. Dismiss the man, nor irritate the god: Prevent the rage of him who reigns above. Pope.

ntrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.

, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. -- Jail liberties, or Jail limits,…

; -- so called because its medicinal properties were first made known in Europe by Jesuit missionaries to South America. -- Jesuits' drops. See Friar's balsam, under Friar. -- Jesuits' nut, the European water chestnut. -- Jesuits' powder, powdered cinchona bark. -- Jesuits' tea, a Chilian leguminous shrub, used as…

tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Jetty ad (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.

ny event; as, the jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign; the jubilee of the American Board of Missions.