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<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; <as>as, to labor without <ex>intermission</ex>; an <ex>intermission</ex> of ten minutes.</as></def>

<blockquote>Rest or <b>intermission</b> none I find. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. <i>Intermission</i> is an entire cessation, as distinguished from <i>remission</i>, or abatement of fever.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Intervention; interposition.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Heylin.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See <er>Cessation</er>.</syn>

<h1>Intermissive</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mis"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.</def> "<i>Intermissive</i> miseries." <i>Shak</i>. "<i>Intermissive</i> wars."

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Intermit</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Intermitted</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Intermitting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>intermittere</ets>; <ets>inter</ets> between + <ets>mittere</ets>, <ets>missum</ets>, to send: cf. OE. <ets>entremeten</ets> to busy (one's self) with, F. <ets>s'entremettre</ets>. See <er>Missile</er>.]</ety> <def>To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.</def>

<blockquote>Pray to the gods to <b>intermit</b> the plague. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Intermit</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Intermittence</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"tence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>intermittence</ets>.]</ety> <def>Act or state of intermitting; intermission.</def>

<i>Tyndall.</i>

<h1>Intermittent</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"tent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>intermittens</ets>, <ets>-entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>intermittere</ets>: cf. F. <ets>intermittent</ets>.]</ety> <def>Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; <as>as, an <ex>intermittent</ex> fever</as>.</def>

<i>Boyle.</i>

<cs><col>Intermittent fever</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a disease with fever which recurs at certain intervals; -- applied particularly to fever and ague. See <er>Fever</er>.</cd> -- <col>Intermittent gearing</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>gearing which receives, or produces, intermittent motion.</cd> -- <col>Intermittent springs</col>, <cd>springs which flow at intervals, not apparently dependent upon rain or drought. They probably owe their intermittent action to their being connected with natural reservoirs in hills or mountains by passages having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.</cd></cs>

<h1>Intermittent</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"tent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An intermittent fever or disease.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<h1>Intermittently</h1> <Xpage=778>

<hw>In`ter*mit"tent*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.</def>