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o throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. -- An`ti- Sem"ite (#), n. -- An`ti-Sem*it"ic (#), a.

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

To let fall; to depress. [R.] They [peacocks] demit and let fall the same [i. e., their train]. Sir T. Browne.

That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light.

Semitone. [R.]

See Hermitage.

A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.

Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.

Eremitic. Bp. Hall.

The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.

A division of birds including the true pigeons.

See Semitone.

Turned half round; half inverted.

That which is hemitropal in construction; (Crystallog.) a twin crystal having a hemitropal structure.

Twin composition in crystals.