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A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.

Capable of being iterated or repeated. [Obs.]

Iteration. [Obs.]

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.

Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon. What needs this iteration, woman Shak.

Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.

A genus of rapacious birds; one of the Accipitres or Raptores.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

One who alliterates.

without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

One who baits; a tormentor.

One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

Consisting of two letters; as, a biliteral root of a Sanskrit verb. Sir W. Jones. -- n.