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oduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order. Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries. Broome.

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

The act of letting go in; admission.

p of the valve with respect to the exhaust port. -- Outside lap, lap with respect to the admission, or steam, port.

The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.

To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.

A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents. [U. S.]

g of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.

To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

Allowance to enter again; a second admission.

Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace. Our hearts receive your warnings. Shak. The idea of solidity we receives by our touch. Locke.

The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation.

tions of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.

Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. Addison. Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance b…

A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.

e, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. -- To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. -- To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. -- To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) T…

ed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.