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time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton.

Want or failure of intermission. [R.] Bp. Parker.

Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever. Dunglison.

The absence or intermission of fever.

s; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]

Without intermission or end.

in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer. Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush room of the opera at night. Macualay.

Continued without intermission; perpetual; ceaseless; constant. And fires eternal in thy temple shine. Dryden.

An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like haw! also, the sound so made. "Hums or haws." Congreve.

Act or state of intermitting; intermission. Tyndall.

With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.

With intermissions; at intervals. W. Montagu.

An intermission. [R.]

To renew; to carry on with intermission. [Obs.] Motion . . . partly continued and unintermitted, . . . partly interpolated and interrupted. Sir M. Hale.

Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

ack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot.

A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.

Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. The perennial existence of bodies corporate. Burke.

The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.