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A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

A cover for the wrist and forearm. To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]

Covered with a mitten or mittens. "Mittened hands." Whittier.

Sending forth; emitting. [Obs.] Wiseman.

A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. Burrill.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]

Admissible. Sir T. Browne.

The act of admitting.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

One who admits.

A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.

Capable of being committed.

The act of commiting, or the state of being committed; commitment.

rt, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of different rules from those governing th…

A member of a committee.

One who commits; one who does or perpetrates. South.

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.