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AdmittingAdmit Ad*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Admitting.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad +
mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre.
See Missile.]
1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a
place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to
take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious
thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a
cause.
2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into
a playhouse.
3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a
privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as,
to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was
admitted to bail.
4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an
allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or
confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted
his guilt.
5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit
such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after
the verb, or may be omitted.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no
treaty with the king. --Hume. BefittingBefit Be*fit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Befitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Befitting.]
To be suitable to; to suit; to become.
That name best befits thee. --Milton. Befitting
Befitting Be*fit"ting, a.
Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
Befittingly
Befittingly Be*fit"ting*ly, adv.
In a befitting manner; suitably.
BenefittingBenefit Ben"e*fit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benefited; p. pr. &
vb. n. Benefitting.]
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance
in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would
benefit them. --Jer. xviii.
10. BittingBit Bit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bitting.]
To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of. CompromittingCompromit Com"pro*mit`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compromitted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Compromitting.] [L. compromittere. See
Compromise, n.]
1. To pledge by some act or declaration; to promise. --State
Trials (1529).
2. To put to hazard, by some indiscretion; to endanger; to
compromise; as, to compromit the honor or the safety of a
nation. Downsitting
Downsitting Down"sit`ting, n.
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. --Ps.
cxxxix. 2.
Ear-splitting
Ear-splitting Ear"-split`ting, a.
Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting
strains.
EmittingEmit E*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Emitting.] [L. emittere to send out; e out + mittere to
send. See Mission.]
1. To send forth; to 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.
2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send
into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. --Const.
of the U. S. Fitting
Fitting Fit"ting, n.
Anything used in fitting up; especially (pl.), necessary
fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study;
gas fittings.
FittingFitting Fit"ting, a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. -- Fit"ting*ly, adv. --
Fit"ting*ness, n. --Jer. Taylor. FittinglyFitting Fit"ting, a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. -- Fit"ting*ly, adv. --
Fit"ting*ness, n. --Jer. Taylor. FittingnessFitting Fit"ting, a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. -- Fit"ting*ly, adv. --
Fit"ting*ness, n. --Jer. Taylor. FlittinessFlittiness Flit"ti*ness, n. [From Flitty.]
Unsteadiness; levity; lightness. [Obs.] --Bp. Hopkins. Flitting
Flitting Flitt"ing, Flytting Flytt"ing, n.
Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical
contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th
century. [Obs. or Scot.]
These ``flytings' consisted of alternate torrents of
sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the
combatants. --Saintsbury.
FlittingFlit Flit, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel.
flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v.
i.]
1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a
rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits
away; a cloud flits along.
A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson.
2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden.
3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to
another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men,
departing this life, did flit out of one body into
some other. --Hooker.
4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot.
& Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson.
5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden. Flitting
Flitting Flit"ting, n.
1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov.
Eng.]
A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and
it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to
move away. --Jeffrey.
Flittingly
Flittingly Flit"ting*ly, adv.
In a flitting manner.
FrittingFrit Frit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fritted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fritting.]
To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse
partially. --Ure. FrittingFritting Frit"ting, n. [See Frit to expose to heat.]
The formation of frit or slag by heat with but incipient
fusion. Gas fitting Gas fitter, one who lays pipes and puts up fixtures for
gas.
Gas fitting.
(a) The occupation of a gas fitter.
(b) pl. The appliances needed for the introduction of gas
into a building, as meters, pipes, burners, etc.
Gas fixture, a device for conveying illuminating or
combustible gas from the pipe to the gas-burner,
consisting of an appendage of cast, wrought, or drawn
metal, with tubes upon which the burners, keys, etc., are
adjusted.
Gas generator, an apparatus in which gas is evolved; as:
(a) a retort in which volatile hydrocarbons are evolved by
heat;
(b) a machine in which air is saturated with the vapor of
liquid hydrocarbon; a carburetor;
(c) a machine for the production of carbonic acid gas, for
a["e]rating water, bread, etc. --Knight.
Gas jet, a flame of illuminating gas.
Gas machine, an apparatus for carbureting air for use as
illuminating gas.
Gas meter, an instrument for recording the quantity of gas
consumed in a given time, at a particular place.
Gas retort, a retort which contains the coal and other
materials, and in which the gas is generated, in the
manufacture of gas.
Gas stove, a stove for cooking or other purposes, heated by
gas.
Gas tar, coal tar.
Gas trap, a drain trap; a sewer trap. See 4th Trap, 5.
Gas washer (Gas Works), an apparatus within which gas from
the condenser is brought in contact with a falling stream
of water, to precipitate the tar remaining in it.
--Knight.
Gas water, water through which gas has been passed for
purification; -- called also gas liquor and ammoniacal
water, and used for the manufacture of sal ammoniac,
carbonate of ammonia, and Prussian blue. --Tomlinson.
Gas well, a deep boring, from which natural gas is
discharged. --Raymond.
Gas works, a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and
appurtenances; a place where gas is generated for lighting
cities.
Laughing gas. See under Laughing.
Marsh gas (Chem.), a light, combustible, gaseous
hydrocarbon, CH4, produced artificially by the dry
distillation of many organic substances, and occurring as
a natural product of decomposition in stagnant pools,
whence its name. It is an abundant ingredient of ordinary
illuminating gas, and is the first member of the paraffin
series. Called also methane, and in coal mines, fire
damp.
Natural gas, gas obtained from wells, etc., in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere, and largely used for
fuel and illuminating purposes. It is chiefly derived from
the Coal Measures.
Olefiant gas (Chem.). See Ethylene.
Water gas (Chem.), a kind of gas made by forcing steam over
glowing coals, whereby there results a mixture of hydrogen
and carbon monoxide. This gives a gas of intense heating
power, but destitute of light-giving properties, and which
is charged by passing through some volatile hydrocarbon,
as gasoline. Grittiness
Grittiness Grit"ti*ness (-t[i^]*n[e^]s), n.
The quality of being gritty.
GrittingGrit Grit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gritted; p. pr. &, vb. n.
Gritting.]
To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the
teeth. [Collog.] Hairsplitting
Hairsplitting Hair"split`ting, a.
Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning;
subtle. -- n. The act or practice of making trivial
distinctions.
The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special
pleading. --Charles
Sumner.
HittingHit Hit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hit; p. pr. & vb. n.
Hitting.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan.
hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.]
1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch,
usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an
object aimed at).
I think you have hit the mark. --Shak.
2. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the
occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord
with; to be conformable to; to suit.
Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the
notes right. --Locke.
There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails
with him. --Dryden.
Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense
of human sight. --Milton.
He scarcely hit my humor. --Tennyson.
3. To guess; to light upon or discover. ``Thou hast hit it.'
--Shak.
4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging
to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected
piece on a point.
To hit off, to describe with quick characteristic strokes;
as, to hit off a speaker. --Sir W. Temple.
To hit out, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser. Intermittingly
Intermittingly In`ter*mit"ting*ly, adv.
With intermissions; at intervals. --W. Montagu.
IntromittingIntromit In`tro*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intromitted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Intromitting.] [L. intromittere, intromissum;
intro- within + mittere to send.]
1. To send in or put in; to insert or introduce. --Greenhill.
2. To allow to pass in; to admit.
Glass in the window intromits light, without cold.
--Holder. KnittingKnit Knit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Knit or Knitted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Knitting.] [OE. knitten, knutten, As. cnyttan, fr.
cnotta knot; akin to Icel. kn?ta, Sw. knyta, Dan. knytte. See
Knot.]
1. To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as
cord; to fasten by tying.
A great sheet knit at the four corners. --Acts x.
11.
When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher
about your brows. --Shak.
2. To form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn
or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of
needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit
stockings.
3. To join; to cause to grow together.
Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are
under a discharge. --Wiseman.
4. To unite closely; to connect; to engage; as, hearts knit
together in love.
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit. --Shak.
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light
fantastic round. --Milton.
A link among the days, toknit The generations each
to each. --Tennyson.
5. To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
He knits his brow and shows an angry eye. --Shak. KnittingKnitting Knit"ting, n.
1. The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.
2. Union formed by knitting, as of bones.
Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for
mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like.
Knitting ?eedle, a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with
rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric,
as in stockings.
Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the end of a needle in
knitting.
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