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Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Bacon.

The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable. Germination apparatus, an apparatus for malting grain.

Pertaining to germination; having power to bud or develop. Germinative spot, Germinative vesicle. (Biol.) Same as Germinal spot, Germinal vesicle, under Germinal.

Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis (Math.), that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate coefficients (Math.), coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience o…

Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind. Jer. Taylor.

Undetermined.

Incapable of extermination. Rush.

To cause to germinate.

Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.

The state of being endless.

Without end or limit.

Endless; as, interminate sleep. Chapman.

Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. [Obs.] Akenside.

A menace or threat. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To intersect or penetrate with mines. [Obs.] Drayton.

To be mixed or incorporated. Party and faction will intermingle. Swift.

A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.

rly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.