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Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever (Med.), a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.

One who makes remittance.

A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.

One who makes a remittance; a remitter.

Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep. [Eng.] Woodsward.

p. p. of Smite.

To infect. [Prov. Eng.]

Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.

An under committee; a part or division of a committee. Yet by their sequestrators and subcommittees abroad . . . those orders were commonly disobeyed. Milton.

One who submits. Whitlock.

Transmission. Swift.

Transmission.

One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.

Capable of being transmitted; transmissible.

Inadmissible. [R.]

Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.

itten separately. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

erate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or proc…

In a accepted manner; admittedly.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.