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A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

Mediation. [Obs.]

Interminable. [Obs.] Skelton.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.

To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] Shak.

A festering. [R.] Chalmers.

A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.

To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.

Food; nourishment. [Obs.]

Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.

The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.

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.

Between the mandibles; interramal; as, the intermandibular space.