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Definitions of: ERMIT

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merit

merit: (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.; (n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.; (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.; (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.; (n.) To reward.; (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

miter

mitre

mitre: (n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.; (n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.; (n.) A sort of base money or coin.; (v. t.) To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.; (v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.; (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.; (n. & v.) See Miter.

remit

remit: (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.; (v. t.) To restore.; (v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.; (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.; (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.; (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.; (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.; (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.; (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

timer

timer: (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.