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word: Ethnological
definition:
Ethnological

Ethnologic

{ Eth`no*log"ic (?), Eth`no*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to ethnology.


word: Ethnologically
definition:
Ethnologically

Eth`no*log"ic*al*ly
adv.
In an ethnological manner; by ethnological classification; as, one belonging ethnologically to an African race.


word: Ethnology
definition:
Ethnology

Eth*nol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; nation + -logy.]
The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.


word: Ethological
definition:
Ethological

Ethologic

{ Eth`o*log"ic (?), Eth`o*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[See Ethology.]
treating of, or pertaining to, ethnic or morality, or the science of character.
J. S. Mill.


word: Ethology
definition:
Ethology

E*thol"o*gy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; a depicting of character; _; custom, moral nature + _; to speak.]
1.
A treatise on morality; ethics.

2.
The science of the formation of character, national and collective as well as individual.
J. S. Mill.


word: Ethopoetic
definition:
Ethopoetic

Eth"o*po*et"ic
(?)
[Gr. _;; _; custom, manners + _; to make or form.]
Expressing character.
[Obs.]
Urquhart.


word: Ethos
definition:
Ethos

E"thos
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _; character. See Ethic.]
1.
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

2.
(esthetics)
The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.


word: Ethule
definition:
Ethule

Eth"ule
(?)
[Ether + Gr. _; substance, base.  Cf. Ethyl, and see -yl.]
(Chem.)
Ethyl.
[Obs.]


word: Ethyl
definition:
Ethyl

Eth"yl
(?)
n.
[Ether + -yl.]
(Chem.)
A monatomic, hydrocarbon radical, C2H5 of the paraffin series, forming the essential radical of ethane, and of common alcohol and ether.

Ethyl aldehyde. (Chem.) See Aldehyde.


word: ethyl alcohol
definition:
ethyl alcohol

ethyl alcohol
n.
(Chem.)
the organic compound C2H5.OH, which is the intoxicating agent in beer, wine, and other fermented and distilled liquors; it is used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel.

Syn. -- ethanol, fermentation alcohol, grain alcohol.


word: Ethylamine
definition:
Ethylamine

Eth`yl*am"ine
(?)
n.
[Ethyl + amine.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, very volatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is a derivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.


word: Ethylate
definition:
Ethylate

Eth"yl*ate
(ĕth"ĭl*a̝t)
n.
[From Ethyl.]
(Chem.)
A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.


word: Ethylate₂
definition:
Ethylate

Eth"y*late
(ĕth"ĭl*a̝t)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Ethylated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ethylating.]
[From Ethyl.]
(Chem.)
To treat in such a way as to cause the introduction of one or more ethyl groups, C2H5-; as, to ethylate alcohol.


word: Ethylene
definition:
Ethylene

Eth"yl*ene
(ĕth"ĭl*ēn)
n.
[From Ethyl.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H4, forming an important ingredient of illuminating gas, and also obtained by the action of concentrated sulphuric acid in alcohol. It is an unsaturated compound and combines directly with chlorine and bromine to form oily liquids (Dutch liquid), -- hence called olefiant gas. Called also ethene, elayl, and formerly, bicarbureted hydrogen.

Ethylene series (Chem.), the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is the type, and represented by the general formula CnH2n.


word: Ethylic
definition:
Ethylic

E*thyl"ic
(?)
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, ethyl; as, ethylic alcohol.


word: Ethylidene
definition:
Ethylidene

E*thyl"i*dene
(?)
(Chem.)
An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH= to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2=CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.


word: ethyl mercaptan
definition:
ethyl mercaptan

eth"yl mer*cap"tan
(?)
(Chem.)
A gaseous substance (C2H5.SH) used as an odorant in natural gas and propane to facilitate detection and serve as a warning of leaks.


word: Ethylsulphuric
definition:
Ethylsulphuric

Eth`yl*sul*phu"ric
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or containing, ethyl and sulphuric acid.

Ethylsulphuric acid (Chem.), an acid sulphate of ethyl, H.C2H5.SO4, produced as a thick liquid by the action of sulphiric acid on alcohol. It appears to be the active catalytic agent in the process of etherification.


word: Etiolate
definition:
Etiolate

E"ti*o*late
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Etiolated (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Etiolating.]
[F. étioler to blanch.]
1.
To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

2.
(Med.)
To become pale through disease or absence of light.


word: Etiolate₂
definition:
Etiolate

E"ti*o*late
v. t.
1.
To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

2.
(Med.)
To cause to grow pale by disease or absence of light.


word: Etiolated
definition:
Etiolated

Etiolate

{ E"ti*o*late (?), E"ti*o*la`ted, }
a.
Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.


word: Etiolation
definition:
Etiolation

E`ti*o*la"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.

2.
(Med.)
Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.
Dunglison.


word: Etiolin
definition:
Etiolin

E"ti*o*lin
(?)
n.
[See Etiolate.]
(Bot.)
A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.
Encyc. Brit.


word: Etiquette
definition:
Etiquette

Et"i*quette`
(?)
n.
[F. prop., a little piece of paper, or a mark or title, affixed to a bag or bundle, expressing its contents, a label, ticket, OF.estiquete, of German origin; cf. LG. stikke peg, pin, tack, stikken to stick, G. stecken. See Stick, and cf. Ticket.]
The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.

The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth.
Prescott.


word: Etna
definition:
Etna

Et"na
(?)
n.
A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.

There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry.
V. Baker.


word: Etnean
definition:
Etnean

Et*ne"an
(?)
a.
[L. Aetnaeus, Gr. _;, fr._; (L. Aetna, Aetne).]
Pertaining to Etna, a volcanic mountain in Sicily.


word: Etrurian
definition:
Etrurian

E*tru"ri*an
(?)
a.
Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy.
Etrurian
Milton,
n. A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.


word: Etruscan
definition:
Etruscan

E*trus"can
(?)
n.
[L. Etruscus.]
Of or relating to Etruria.
n. A native or inhabitant of Etruria.


word: Etter pike
definition:
Etter pike

Et"ter pike`
(?)
n.
[Cf. Atter.]
(Zoöl.)
The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera).


word: Ettin
definition:
Ettin

Et"tin
(?)
n.
[SA. eten, eoten, orig., gluttonous, fr. etan to eat.]
A giant.
[Obs.]
Beau. & Fl.


word: Ettle
definition:
Ettle

Et"tle
(?)
v. t.
[Perh. the same word as addle to earn; bur cf. OE. atlien, etlien, to intend, prepare, Icel. ætla to think, suppose, mean.]
To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn.
Boucher.


word: etude
definition:
etude

É`tude"
(a̝`t&usdot_;d")
n.
[F. See Study.]
1.
A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.

2.
(Mus.)
A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.


word: etui
definition:
etui

É`tui"
(a̝`twe̝")
n.
[F.]
A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are carried.


word: Etymological
definition:
Etymological

Et`y*mo*log"ic*al
(-mo̝*l&obreve_;j"ĭ*kal)
a.
[L. etymologicus, Gr. 'etymologiko`s: cf. F. étymologique. See Etymology.]
Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
Et`y*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Etymologicon
definition:
Etymologicon

Et`y*mo*log"i*con
(-ĭ*k&obreve_;n)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. 'etymologiko`n, prop. neut. sing. from 'etymologiko`s.]
An etymological dictionary or manual.


word: Etymologist
definition:
Etymologist

Et`y*mol"o*gist
(ĕt`ĭ*m&obreve_;l"o̝*jĭst)
n.
[Cf. F. étymologiste.]
One who investigates the derivation of words.


word: Etymologize
definition:
Etymologize

Et`y*mol"o*gize
(-jīz)
v. t.
[Cf. F. étymologiser.]
To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
Camden


word: Etymologize₂
definition:
Etymologize

Et`y*mol"o*gize
v. t.
To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.

How perilous it is to etymologize at random.
Trench.


word: Etymology
definition:
Etymology

Et`y*mol"o*gy
(-j&ybreve_;)
n.
pl. Etymologies (-jĭz).
[L.etymologia, Gr. 'etymologi`a; 'e`tymon etymon + lo`gos discourse, description: cf. F. étymologie. See Etymon, and -logy.]
1.
That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.

2.
That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.


word: Etymon
definition:
Etymon

Et"y*mon
(?)
n.
pl. E. Etymons (#), Gr. Etyma (#).
[L., fr. Gr. 'e`tymon the true literal sense of a word according to its derivation, an etymon, fr. _; true, real, prob, akin to Skr. sotya, E. sooth. See Sooth.]
1.
An original form; primitive word; root.

2.
Original or fundamental signification.
[R.]

Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word.
Coleridge.


word: Etypical
definition:
Etypical

E*typ"ic*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. e- + typical.]
(Biol.)
Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.


word: Eu
definition:
Eu

Eu
n.
(Chem.)
the chemical symbol for Europium, an element with atomic number 63 and atomic weight 151.96.

Syn. -- Europium.


word: Eu₂
definition:
Eu

Eu
(?)
[Gr.  e'y^ well, orig. neut. of e'y`s good; prob. connected with Skr. su, from the same root as E. is; or with Skr. vasu good, prob. fr. the same root as E. was.]
A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.


word: Eubacteriales
definition:
Eubacteriales

Eubacteriales
n.
one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms; some are motile; in some classifications it is considered an order of Schizomycetes.

Syn. -- order Eubacteriales.


word: Eubryales
definition:
Eubryales

Eubryales
n.
an order of mosses with perennial erect gametophores and stems with rows of leaves and drooping capsules.

Syn. -- order Eubryales.


word: Eucairite
definition:
Eucairite

Eu*cai"rite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; seasonable, opportune; e'y^ well, good + _; season.]
(Min.)
A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.


word: Eucalyn
definition:
Eucalyn

Eu"ca*lyn
(ū"kȧ*lĭn)
n.
(Chem.)
An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.


word: eucalypt
definition:
eucalypt

eucalypt
n.
a tree of the genus Eucalyptus.

Syn. -- eucalyptus, eucalyptus tree, gum tree.


word: eucalyptol
definition:
eucalyptol

eu`ca*lyp*tol
(?)
n.
[eucalyptus + L. oleum oil.]
(Chem.)
A volatile, terpenelike oil (C10H18O), which is the main constituent of the oil of eucalyptus.  It has cockroach repellent activity and is used as a flavoring aid in pharmaceuticals.  Chemically it is 1,3,3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo-[2,2,2]-octane.
MI11

Syn. -- cineole, cajeputol.
  In the 1913 Webster eucalytpol was defined as an oil “consisting largely of cymene”.  Cymene (isopropyltoluene, C10H14) differs from that of the substance currently called eucalyptol, in having an unsaturated ring and no oxygen. Para-cymene does occur in eucalyptus oil as well as some other essential oils.


word: Eucalyptus
definition:
Eucalyptus

Eu`ca*lyp"tus
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. e'y^ well, good + _; covered. The buds of Eucalyptus have a hemispherical or conical covering, which falls off at anthesis.]
(Bot.)
A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.

Syn. -- eucalyptus tree, gum tree, eucalypt.
&hand_; They have rigid, entire leaves with one edge turned toward the zenith. Most of them secrete resinous gums, whence they called gum trees, and their timber is of great value. Eucalyptus Globulus is the blue gum; E. gigantea, the stringy bark: E. amygdalina, the peppermint tree. E. Gunnii, the Tasmanian cider tree, yields a refreshing drink from wounds made in the bark in the spring. Other species yield oils, tars, acids, dyes and tans. It is said that miasmatic valleys in Algeria and Portugal, and a part of the unhealthy Roman Campagna, have been made more salubrious by planting groves of these trees.


word: eucaryote
definition:
eucaryote

eucaryote
n.
an organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane.  Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae.  Contrasted with prokaryote.

Syn. -- eukaryote.


word: eucaryotic
definition:
eucaryotic

eucaryotic
adj.
of or pertaining to eukaryotes; same as eukaryotic.  Contrasted with prokaryotic.

Syn. -- eukaryotic.


word: Eucharis
definition:
Eucharis

Eu"cha*ris
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. eucharis agreeable, Gr. e'y`charis See Eucharist.]
(Bot.)
A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.


word: Eucharist
definition:
Eucharist

Eu"cha*rist
(?)
n.
[L. eucharistia, Gr. e'ycharisti`a, lit., a giving of thanks; e'y^ + cha`ris favor, grace, thanks; akin to chai`rein to rejoice, and prob. to yearn: cf. F. eucharistie.]
1.
The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
[Obs.]

Led through the vale of tears to the region of eucharist and hallelujahs.
South.

2.
(Eccl.)
The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion.


word: Eucharistical
definition:
Eucharistical

Eucharistic

{ Eu`cha*ris"tic (?), Eu`cha*ris"tic*al (?), }
a.
[Cf. F. eucharistie.]
1.
Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing.
[Obs.]

The eucharistical part of our daily devotions.
Ray.

2.
Pertaining to the Lord's Supper.
eucharistic
Sir. G. C. Lewis.


word: Euchite
definition:
Euchite

Eu"chite
(?)
n.
[From Gr. _; to pray.]
One who resolves religion into prayer.
[Obs.]
Gauden.


word: Euchloric
definition:
Euchloric

Eu*chlo"ric
(?)
a.
[Gr. e'y`chlwro`s fresh and green; e'y^ well + chlwro`s pale green.]
(Chem.)
Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric gas.
Davy.
[archaic]


word: Euchlorine
definition:
Euchlorine

Eu*chlo"rine
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. euchlorine. See Euchloric.]
(Chem.)
A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.


word: Euchology
definition:
Euchology

Euchologion

{ &VerbarEu`cho*lo"gi*on (?), Eu*chol"o*gy (?), }
n.
[NL. euchologion, Gr. _; prayer book; _; prayer, vow (fr. _; to pray) + _; to say, speak.]
(Eccl.)
A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.


word: Euchre
definition:
Euchre

Eu"chre
(?)
n.
[Perh. from F. écarté.]
A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.


word: Euchre₂
definition:
Euchre

Eu"chre
v. t.
1.
To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.

2.
To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
[Slang.]


word: Euchroic
definition:
Euchroic

Eu*chro"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; well-colored; e'y^ well + _; color.]
(Chem.)
Having a fine color.

Euchroic acid (Chem.), an organic, imide acid, obtained as a colorless crystalline substance, C12H4N2O8 by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.


word: Euchroite
definition:
Euchroite

Eu"chro*ite
(?)
n.
[See Euchroic.]
(Min.)
A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.


word: Euchymy
definition:
Euchymy

Eu"chy*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; juice liquid. See Chyme.]
(Med.)
A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.


word: Euclase
definition:
Euclase

Eu"clase
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well, easily + _; to break.  Cf. F. euclase, G. euklas. See named from its brittleness.]
(Min.)
A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.


word: Euclid
definition:
Euclid

Eu"clid
(?)
n.
A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.


word: Euclidian
definition:
Euclidian

Eu*clid"i*an
(?)
n.
Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.

Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.


word: Eucopepoda
definition:
Eucopepoda

Eu`co*pep"o*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Eu- and Copepoda.]
(Zoöl.)
A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.


word: Eucrasy
definition:
Eucrasy

Eu"cra*sy
(?)
[Gr. _;; _;, well-tempered; e'y^ well + _; to mix, temper: cf. F. eucrasie.]
(Med.)
Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness.
Quincy.


word: Euctical
definition:
Euctical

Euc"tic*al
(?)
[Gr. _;, fr. _; to pray, wish.]
Expecting a wish; supplicatory.
[R.]

Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical.
Bp. Law.


word: Eudaemon
definition:
Eudaemon

Eudemon

{ Eu*de"mon, Eu*dæ"mon (?) }
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well, good + _; one's demon.]
A good angel.
Southey.


word: Eudaemonics
definition:
Eudaemonics

Eudemonics

{ Eu`de*mon"ics, Eu`dæ*mon"ics (?) }
n.
[Gr. _; conducive to happiness. See Eudemonism.]
That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics.
J. Grote.


word: Eudaemonism
definition:
Eudaemonism

Eudemonism

{ Eu*de"mon*ism, Eu*dæ"mon*ism (?) }
n.
[Gr. _; a thinking happy, fr, _; blessed with a good genius, happy; e'y^ well, good + _; one's demon of genius. See Demon.]
That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being.


word: Eudaemonist
definition:
Eudaemonist

Eudemonist

{ Eu*de"mon*ist, Eu*dæ"mon*ist  }
n.
One who believes in eudemonism.

I am too much of a eudæmonist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others.
De Quincey.


word: Eudaemonistic
definition:
Eudaemonistic

Eudemonistic

{ Eu*de`mon*is"tic , Eu*dæ`mon*is"tic (?) }
a.
Of or pertaining to eudemonism.


word: Eudialyte
definition:
Eudialyte

Eu*di"a*lyte
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well, easily + _; to dissolve. So called because easily dissolvable in acids.]
(Min.)
A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.


word: Eudiometer
definition:
Eudiometer

Eu`di*om"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; fair, clear weather, fr. _; fine, clear ( said of the air or weather) + -meter: cf. F. ediomètre.]
(Chem.)
An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.

&hand_; It usually consists of a finely graduated and calibrated glass tube, open at one end, the bottom; and having near the top a pair of platinum wires fused in, to allow the passage of an electric spark, as the process involves the explosion and combustion of one of the ingredients to be determined. The operation is conducted in a trough of mercury, or sometimes over water.  Cf. Burette. Ure's eudiometer has the tube bent in the form of the letter. U.


word: Eudiometrical
definition:
Eudiometrical

Eudiometric

{ Eu`di*o*met"ric (?), Eu`di*o*met"ric*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.


word: Eudiometry
definition:
Eudiometry

Eu`di*om"e*try
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. eudiométrie.]
(Chem.)
The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.


word: Eudipleura
definition:
Eudipleura

Eu`di*pleu"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. e'y^ well + _; double + _; rib,_;, pl.,side.]
(Biol.)
The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves.
Syd. Soc. Lex.


word: Eudoxian
definition:
Eudoxian

Eu*dox"i*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.


word: Euganoidei
definition:
Euganoidei

Eu`ga*noi"de*i
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. e'y^ well + NL. ganoidei. See Ganoid.]
(Zoöl.)
A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.


word: Eugenesis
definition:
Eugenesis

Eu*gen"e*sis
(?)
n.
[Pref. eu- + genesis.]
(Biol.)
The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.


word: Eugenia
definition:
Eugenia

Eu*ge"ni*a
(&uuptack_;*jē"nĭ*ȧ)
n.
[NL. Named in honor of Prince Eugene of Savoy.]
(Bot.)
A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.


word: Eugenic
definition:
Eugenic

Eu*gen"ic
(&uuptack_;*jĕn"ĭk)
a.
[See Eugenia.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.


word: Eugenic₂
definition:
Eugenic

Eu*gen"ic
(&uuptack_;*jĕn"ĭk)
a.
[Gr. e'ygenh`s.]
Well-born; of high birth.
Atlantic Monthly.


word: Eugenin
definition:
Eugenin

Eu"ge*nin
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove camphor.


word: Eugenol
definition:
Eugenol

Eu"ge*nol
(?)
n.
[Eugenia + -ol.]
(Chem.)
A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.


word: Eugeny
definition:
Eugeny

Eu"ge*ny
(?)
[Gr. _;, fr. e'ygenh`s well born; e'y^ well + _; race.]
Nobleness of birth.
[Obs.]


word: Eugetinic
definition:
Eugetinic

Eugetic

{ Eu*get"ic (?), Eu`ge*tin"ic (?), }
a.
(Chem)
Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.


word: Eugubine
definition:
Eugubine

Eugubian

{ Eu*gu"bi*an (?), Eu"gu*bine (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.


word: Euharmonic
definition:
Euharmonic

Eu`har*mon"ic
(?)
a.
[Pref. -eu + harmonic.]
(Mus.)
Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.


word: Euhemerism
definition:
Euhemerism

Eu*hem"er*ism
(?)
n.
[L. Euhemerus, Gr. _; a philosopher, about 300 _;.]
The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.


word: Euisopoda
definition:
Euisopoda

Eu`i*sop"o*da
(?)
pl.
[NL. See Eu- and Isopoda.]
(Zoöl.)
A group which includes the typical Isopoda.


word: eukaryote
definition:
eukaryote

eukaryote
n.
an organism with "good" or membrane-bound nuclei having multiple chromosomes; eucaryotes also have other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria or chloroplasts, within the cytoplasm enclosed by the outer membrane.  Such cells are characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria and blue-green algae.  Contrasted with prokaryote.

Syn. -- eucaryote.


word: eukaryotic
definition:
eukaryotic

eukaryotic
adj.
having cells with visible nuclei surrounded by a nuclear membrane; pertaining to eukaryotes.   Contrasted with prokaryotic.

Syn. -- eucaryotic.


word: Eulachon
definition:
Eulachon

Eu"la*chon
(?)
n.
[Native Indian name.]
(Zoöl.)
The candlefish. [Written also oulachan, oolacan, and ulikon.] See Candlefish.


word: Eulerian
definition:
Eulerian

Eu*le"ri*an
(?)
a.
Pertaining to Euler, a German mathematician of the 18th century.

Eulerian integrals, certain definite integrals whose properties were first investigated by Euler.


word: Eulogical
definition:
Eulogical

Eulogic

{ Eu*log"ic (?), Eu*log"ic*al (?), }
a.
[See Eulogy.]
Bestowing praise of eulogy; commendatory; eulogistic.
[R.]
Eu*log"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]


word: Eulogistical
definition:
Eulogistical

Eulogistic

{ Eu`lo*gis"tic (?), Eu`lo*gis"tic*al (?), }
a.
Of or pertaining to eulogy; characterized by eulogy; bestowing praise; panegyrical; commendatory; laudatory; as, eulogistic speech or discourse.
Eu"lo*gis"tic*al*ly, adv.


word: Eulogium
definition:
Eulogium

Eu*lo"gi*um
(?)
n.
pl. Eulogiums (#).
[LL., fr. Gr. _; eulogy.]
A formal eulogy.
Smollett.


word: Eulogize
definition:
Eulogize

Eu"lo*gize
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Eulogized. (_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Eulogizing (?).]
To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.


word: Eulogy
definition:
Eulogy

Eu"lo*gy
(?)
n.
pl. Eulogies (#).
[Gr. _;, from _; well speaking; e'y^ well + _; to speak.  Cf. Eulogium, and see Legend.]
A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.

Eulogies turn into elegies.
Spenser.


word: Eulytite
definition:
Eulytite

Eu"ly*tite
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; to dissolve.]
(Min.)
A mineral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.


word: Eumenides
definition:
Eumenides

Eu*men"i*des
(?)
n. pl.
[L., from Gr. _; lit., gracious goddesses.]
(Class. Myth.)
A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.


word: Eumolpus
definition:
Eumolpus

Eu*mol"pus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; sweetly singing.]
(Zoöl.)
A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.


word: Eumops
definition:
Eumops

Eumops
n.
one of the genera of mastiff bats, of the family Molossidae.

Syn. -- genus Eumops.


word: Eumycetes
definition:
Eumycetes

Eumycetes
n.
a class used in some classifications, which is coextensive with the division Eumycota.

Syn. -- class Eumycetes.


word: Eumycota
definition:
Eumycota

Eumycota
n.
a division consisting of the true fungi, eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms distinguished from the Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds).  It comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi).

Syn. -- division Eumycota.


word: Eunectes
definition:
Eunectes

Eunectes
n.
a genus of boas consisting of anacondas, large South American snakes that may grow to 25 feet.

Syn. -- genus Eunectes.


word: Eunomian
definition:
Eunomian

Eu*no"mi*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father.
a. Of or pertaining to Eunomius or his doctrine.


word: Eunomy
definition:
Eunomy

Eu"no*my
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; e'y^ well + _; law.]
Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government.
[R.]
Mitford.


word: Eunuch
definition:
Eunuch

Eu"nuch
(?)
n.
[L. eunuchus, Gr. _;, prop., keeping or guarding the couch; _; couch, bed, + _; to have, hold, keep.]
A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.


word: Eunuchate
definition:
Eunuchate

Eunuch

{ Eu"nuch (?), Eu"nuch*ate, }
v. t.
[L. eunuchare.]
To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.
Creech. Sir. T. Browne.


word: Eunuchism
definition:
Eunuchism

Eu"nuch*ism
(?)
n.
[L. eunuchismus an unmanning, Gr. _;: cf. F. eunuchisme eunuchism.]
The state of being eunuch.
Bp. Hall.


word: Euonymin
definition:
Euonymin

Eu*on"y*min
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree.


word: Euonymus
definition:
Euonymus

Eu*on"y*mus
(?)
n.
[NL. (cf. L. euonymos). fr. Gr. _;, lit., of good name.]
(Bot.)
A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.


word: Euornithes
definition:
Euornithes

Eu`or*ni"thes
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr., Gr. e'y^ well + _;, _; a bird.]
(Zoöl.)
The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, or all living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.


word: Euosmitte
definition:
Euosmitte

Eu*os"mitte
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; a smell.]
(Min.)
A fossil resin, so called from its strong, peculiar, pleasant odor.


word: Eupathy
definition:
Eupathy

Eu"pa*thy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; comfort, happy condition of the soul. See Eu-, and Pathetic.]
Right feeling.
[R.]
Harris.


word: Eupatorin Eupatorine
definition:
Eupatorin Eupatorine

{ Eu*pat"o*rin Eu*pat"o*rine }
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A principle or mixture of principles extracted from various species of Eupatorium.


word: Eupatorium
definition:
Eupatorium

Eu`pa*to"ri*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Eupator, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine.]
(Bot.)
A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.


word: Eupepsy
definition:
Eupepsy

Eupepsia

{ &VerbarEu*pep"si*a (?), Eu*pep"sy (?), }
n.
[NL. eupepsia, Fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; easy of digestion; e'y^ well + _; to cook, digest.]
(Med.)
Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.


word: Eupeptic
definition:
Eupeptic

Eu*pep"tic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _;.]
Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.

Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat.
Carlyle.


word: Euphausiacea
definition:
Euphausiacea

Euphausiacea
n.
an order of small, commonly luminescent crustaceans: krill.

Syn. -- order Euphausiacea.


word: Euphemism
definition:
Euphemism

Eu"phe*mism
(ū"fe̝*mĭz'm)
n.
[Gr. _; fr. _; to use word of a good omen; e'y^ well + _; to speak: cf. F. euphémisme. See Fame.]
(Rhet.)
A figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.


word: Euphemistical
definition:
Euphemistical

Euphemistic

{ Eu`phe*mis"tic (?), Eu`phe*mis"tic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression.
Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly, adv.


word: Euphemize
definition:
Euphemize

Eu"phe*mize
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Euphemized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Euphemizing.]
[Gr. _; .]
To express by a euphemism, or in delicate language; to make use of euphemistic expressions.


word: Euphoniad
definition:
Euphoniad

Eu*pho"ni*ad
(?)
n.
[See Euphony.]
(Mus.)
An instrument in which are combined the characteristic tones of the organ and various other instruments.
[R.]


word: Euphonical
definition:
Euphonical

Euphonic

{ Eu*phon"ic (?), Eu*phon"ic*al (?), }
a.
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography.


word: Euphonicon
definition:
Euphonicon

Eu*phon"i*con
(&uuptack_;*f&obreve_;n"ĭ*k&obreve_;n)
n.
[See Euphony.]
(Mus.)
A kind of upright piano.


word: Euphonious
definition:
Euphonious

Eu*pho"ni*ous
(?)
a.
Pleasing or sweet in sound; euphonic; smooth-sounding.
Hallam.
Eu*pho"ni*ous*ly, adv.


word: Euphonon
definition:
Euphonon

Eu"pho*non
(?)
n.
[See Euphony.]
(Mus.)
An instrument resembling the organ in tone and the upright piano in form. It is characterized by great strength and sweetness of tone.


word: Euphony
definition:
Euphony

Eu"pho*ny
(?)
n.
pl. Euphonies (#).
[L. euphonia, Gr. _;, fr. _; sweet-voiced; e'y^ well + _; sound, voice; akin to _; to speak: cf. F. euphonie.]
A pleasing or sweet sound; an easy, smooth enunciation of sounds; a pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.


word: Euphorbia
definition:
Euphorbia

Eu*phor"bi*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. euphorbea. See Euphorrium.]
(Bot.)
Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.


word: Euphorbial
definition:
Euphorbial

Euphorbiaceous

{ Eu*phor`bi*a"ceous (?), Eu*phor"bi*al (?), }
a.
(Bot.)
Of, relating to, or resembling, the Euphorbia family.


word: Euphorbine
definition:
Euphorbine

Euphorbin

{ Eu*phor"bin, Eu*phor"bine }
(?)
n.
(Med.)
A principle, or mixture of principles, derived from various species of Euphorbia.


word: Euphorbium
definition:
Euphorbium

Eu*phor"bi*um
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. L. euphorbeum, from Gr. _;; -- so called after Euphorbus, a Greek physician.]
(Med.)
An inodorous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifera. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned.


word: euphoria
definition:
euphoria

euphoria
adj.
a strong pleasant feeling of well-being or happiness; it is often caused by attainment of a desired goal or other incident of accomplishment, but may irrationally accompany a pathological manic state.

Syn. -- elation, high.


word: euphoric
definition:
euphoric

euphoric
adj.
strongly experiencing a feeling of well-being; feeling euphoria.  Opposite of dysphoric.
expansive

Syn. -- elated, happy.


word: Euphotide
definition:
Euphotide

Eu"pho*tide
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _;, _;, light. So called because of its pleasing combination of white and green.]
(Min.)
A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.


word: euphrasy
definition:
euphrasy

eu"phra*sy
(ū"frȧ*s&ybreve_;)
n.
[NL. euphrasia, fr. Gr. e'yfrasi`a delight, fr. e'yfrai`nein to delight; e'y^ well + frh`n heart, mind: cf. LL. eufrasia, F. eufraise.]
(Bot.)
The plant eyebright (Euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.

Then purged with euphrasy and rue
The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
Milton.


word: Euphrates
definition:
Euphrates

Euphrates
prop. n.
an Asia river flowing into the Persian Gulf.

Syn. -- Euphrates River.


word: euphroe
definition:
euphroe

eu"phroe
(?)
n.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of the crowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up.
[Written also uphroe and uvrou.]
Knight.


word: euphuism
definition:
euphuism

eu"phu*ism
(ū"f&uuptack_;*ĭz'm)
n.
[Gr. e'yfyh`s well grown, graceful; e'y^ well + fyh` growth, fr. fy`ein to grow.  This affected style of conversation and writing, fashionable for some time in the court of Elizabeth, had its origin from the fame of Lyly's books, “Euphues, or the Anatomy of Wit,” and “Euphues and his England.”]
(Rhet.)
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.


word: Euphuist
definition:
Euphuist

Eu"phu*ist
n.
One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; -- applied esp. to a class of writers, in the age of Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.


word: Euphuize
definition:
Euphuize

Eu"phu*ize
(?)
v. t.
To affect excessive refinement in language; to be overnice in expression.


word: Eupione
definition:
Eupione

Eu"pi*one
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; very fat; e'y^ well + _; fat.]
(Chem.)
A limpid, oily liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of various vegetable and animal substances; -- specifically, an oil consisting largely of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series.
[Written also eupion.]


word: Eupittone
definition:
Eupittone

Eu*pit"tone
(?)
n.
[Pref. eu- + pittacal + -one.]
(Chem.)
A yellow, crystalline substance, resembling aurin, and obtained by the oxidation of pittacal; -- called also eupittonic acid.
[Written also eupitton.]


word: Euplastic
definition:
Euplastic

Eu*plas"tic
(?)
a.
[Pref. eu- + -plastic.]
(Med.)
Having the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person.
Dunglison.


word: Euplastic₂
definition:
Euplastic

Eu*plas"tic
n.
(Med.)
Organizable substance by which the tissues of an animal body are renewed.


word: Euplectella
definition:
Euplectella

Eu`plec*tel"la
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; well plaited; e'y^ well + _; plaited.]
(Zoöl.)
A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.


word: Euplexoptera
definition:
Euplexoptera

Eu`plex*op"te*ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. e'y^ well + _; to plait + _; a wing.]
(Zoöl.)
An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig.


word: Eupnaea
definition:
Eupnaea

Eup*næ"a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. gr. _; easy breathing; e'y^ well + _; to breathe.]
(Physiol.)
Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnæa, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized.
Foster.


word: eupyrion
definition:
eupyrion

eu*pyr"i*on
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; fire.]
A contrivance for obtaining a light instantaneously, such as a lucifer match.
[archaic]
Brande & C.


word: Eurafrican
definition:
Eurafrican

Eurafric

{ Eur*af"ric (?), Eur*af"ri*can (?) }
a.
[Europe + Afric, African.]
1.
(Geog.)
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined.

2.
(Zoögeography)
Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara.

3.
Of European and African descent.


word: Eurasian
definition:
Eurasian

Eu*ra"sian
(?)
n.
[European + Asian.]
1.
A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.

2.
One born of European parents in Asia.


word: Eurasian₂
definition:
Eurasian

Eu*ra"sian
(?)
a.
Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.


word: Eurasiatio
definition:
Eurasiatio

Eu*ra`si*at"io
(?)
a.
(Geog.)
Of or pertaining to the continents of Europe and Asia combined.


word: Eureka
definition:
Eureka

Eu*re"ka
(?)
[Gr. _; I have found, perfect indicative of _; to find.]
The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out “Eureka! eureka!” (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.


word: Eurhipidurous
definition:
Eurhipidurous

Eu*rhip`i*du"rous
(?)
a.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; a fan + _; a tail.]
(Zoöl.)
Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.


word: Euripus
definition:
Euripus

Eu*ri"pus
(?)
n.
[L., fr. Gr. _;; e'y^ well + _; a rushing motion.]
A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eubœa and Bœotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.
Burke.


word: Eurite
definition:
Eurite

Eu"rite
(ū"rīt)
n.
[Cf. F. eurite.]
(Min.)
A compact feldspathic rock; felsite. See Felsite.


word: Euroclydon
definition:
Euroclydon

Eu*roc"ly*don
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; _; the southeast wind + _; wave, billow; according to another reading, _;, i. e. a north-east wind, as in the Latin Vulgate Euro-aquilo.]
A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.

A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon.
Acts xxvii. 14.


word: European
definition:
European

Eu`ro*pe"an
(?)
prop. a.
[L. europeaus, Gr. _;, fr. Gr. _; (L. europa.)]
Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants.

On the European plan, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]


word: Europeanization
definition:
Europeanization

Europeanization
n.
the process of becoming like the Europeans in manners or character; assimilation into European culture.


word: Europeanize
definition:
Europeanize

Eu`ro*pe"an*ize
(?)
v. t.
To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.

A state of society . . . changed and Europeanized.
Lubbock.


word: Europium
definition:
Europium

Eu*ro"pi*um
(?)
n.
[NL.; Europe + -ium, as in aluminium.]
(Chem.)
A metallic element of the rare-earth group (Lanthanide series), discovered spectroscopically by Demarcay in 1896. Symbol, Eu; atomic number 63; at. wt., 151.965 (C=12.011); valence = +2 or +3.


word: Eurotiales
definition:
Eurotiales

Eurotiales
n.
an order of fungi having a closed ascocarp (cleistothecium) with the asci scattered rather than gathered into a hymenial layer.

Syn. -- order Eurotiales, Aspergillales, order Aspergillales.


word: Euryale
definition:
Euryale

Eu*ry"a*le
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Euryale, one of the Gorgons.]
1.
(Bot.)
A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (Euryale ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.

2.
(Zoöl.)
A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.


word: Euryalida
definition:
Euryalida

Eu`ry*al"i*da
(?)
n. pl.
[NL.]
(Zoöl.)
A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.


word: Eurypteroid
definition:
Eurypteroid

Eu*ryp"ter*oid
(?)
a.
[Eurypterus + -oid.]
(Paleon.)
Like, or pertaining to, the genus Euryperus.


word: Eurypteroidea
definition:
Eurypteroidea

Eu*ryp`te*roi"de*a
(?)
n. pl.
[NL. See Eurypteroid.]
(Paleont.)
An extinct order of Merostomata, of which the genus Eurypterus is the type. They are found only in Paleozoic rocks.
[Written also Eurypterida.]


word: Eurypterus
definition:
Eurypterus

Eu*ryp"te*rus
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; broad + _; a wing.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.


word: Eurythmy
definition:
Eurythmy

Eu"ryth*my
(?)
n.
[L. eurythmia, Gr. _;; e'y^ well + _; rhythm, measure, proportion, symmetry: cf. F. eurythmie.]
1.
(Fine Arts)
Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

2.
(Med.)
Regularly of the pulse.


word: Eusebian
definition:
Eusebian

Eu*se"bi*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Eusebius, bishop of Cæsarea, who was a friend and protector of Arius.


word: Eustachian
definition:
Eustachian

Eu*sta"chi*an
(?)
a.
[From Eustachi, a learned Italian physician who died in Rome, 1574.]
(Anat.)
(a)
Discovered by Eustachius.
(b)
Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter.

Eustachian catheter, a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth. -- Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eustachian valve (Anat.), a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.


word: Eustyle
definition:
Eustyle

Eu"style`
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, neut. of _; with pillars at the best distances; e'y^ well + _; pillar: cf. F. eustyle.]
(Arch.)
See Intercolumnlation.


word: Eutaxy
definition:
Eutaxy

Eu"tax*y
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;; e'y^ well + _; arrangement: cf. F. eutaxie.]
Good or established order or arrangement.
[R.]
E. Waterhouse.


word: eutectic
definition:
eutectic

eu*tec"tic
(ū*tĕk"tĭk)
a.
[Gr. e'y`thktos easily melted; e'y^ well + th`kein to melt.]
(Physics)
Of maximum fusibility; -- said of an alloy or mixture which has the lowest melting point which it is possible to obtain by the combination of the given components.


word: eutectic₂
definition:
eutectic

eutectic
(ū*tĕk"tĭk)
n.
a mixture of substances having a composition providing the minimum melting point ofr mixtures of those substances.  Called also a eutectic mixture.

Syn. -- eutectic mixture.


word: Eutexia
definition:
Eutexia

Eu*tex"i*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; a being easily melted.]
(Physics)
The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.


word: Euterpe
definition:
Euterpe

Eu*ter"pe
(?)
[L., fr. Gr. _;, fr. _; delightful; e'y^ well + _; to delight.]
1.
(Class. Myth.)
The Muse who presided over music.

2.
(Bot.)
A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.


word: Euthanasia
definition:
Euthanasia

Eu`tha*na"si*a
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; e'y^ well + _; death, _;, _;, to die: cf. F. euthanasie.]
1.
An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
euthanasia
Hazlitt.

The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia.
Arbuthnot.
2.
the act or process of putting to death for humane purposes; -- used to refer to the killing of animals in order to relieve or avoid pain.


word: Euthiochroic
definition:
Euthiochroic

Eu`thi*o*chro"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; sulphur + _; color.]
(Chem.)
Pertaining to, or denoting, an acid so called.

Euthiochroic acid (Chem.), a complex derivative of hydroquinone and sulphonic (thionic) acid. -- so called because it contains sulphur, and forms brilliantly colored (yellow) salts.


word: Euthyneura
definition:
Euthyneura

Eu`thy*neu"ra
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; straight + _; a nerve.]
(Zoöl.)
A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.


word: Eutrophy
definition:
Eutrophy

Eu"tro*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _;, fr. _; nourishing, healthy; e'y^ well + _; to nourish.]
(Med.)
Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.


word: Eutychian
definition:
Eutychian

Eu*tych"i*an
(?)
n.
(Eccl. Hist.)
A follower of Eutyches [5th century], who held that the divine and the human in the person of Christ were blended together as to constitute but one nature; a monophysite; -- opposed to Nestorian.


word: Euxanthic
definition:
Euxanthic

Eux*an"thic
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Having a yellow color; pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, euxanthin.

Euxanthic acid (Chem.), a yellow, crystalline, organic acid, extracted from euxanthin.


word: Euxanthin
definition:
Euxanthin

Eux*an"thin
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'y^ well + _; yellow.]
(Chem.)
A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango.  It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow.


word: Euxenite
definition:
Euxenite

Eux"e*nite
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; hospitable. So named because it contains a number of rare elements.]
(Min.)
A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.


word: Evacuant
definition:
Evacuant

E*vac"u*ant
(?)
a.
[L.evacuans, -antis, p. pr. of evacuare: cf. F. évacuant.]
Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
n. (Med.) A purgative or cathartic.


word: Evacuate
definition:
Evacuate

E*vac"u*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evacuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evacuating.]
[l. evacuatus, p. p. of evacuare to empty, nullify; e out + vacuus empty, vacare to be empty. See Vacate.]
1.
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

2.
Fig.: To make empty; to deprive.
[R.]

Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
Coleridge.

3.
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

4.
To withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
Burke.

5.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate; as, to evacuate a contract or marriage.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Evacuate₂
definition:
Evacuate

E*vac"u*ate
v. i.
1.
To let blood
[Obs.]
Burton.

2.
to expel stool from the bowels; to defecate.


word: evacuated
definition:
evacuated

evacuated
adj.
1.
p. p. of evacuate.

2.
emptied of gas by being pumped out or having a vacuum created; as, a highly evacuated glass tube.


word: Evacuation
definition:
Evacuation

E*vac`u*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evacuatio: cf. F. évacuation.]
1.
The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
(a)
(Mil.)
Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.
(b)
(Med.)
Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.

2.
That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
Quincy.

3.
Abolition; nullification.
[Obs.]
Hooker.

Evacuation day, the anniversary of the day on which the British army evacuated the city of New York, November 25, 1783.


word: Evacuative
definition:
Evacuative

E*vac"u*a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. évacuatif.]
Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.


word: Evade
definition:
Evade

E*vade"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evaded; p. pr. & vb. n.. Evading.]
[L. evadere, evasum, e out + vadere to go, walk: cf. F. s'évader. See Wade.]
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.

The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
Trench.


word: Evade₂
definition:
Evade

E*vade"
v. t.
1.
To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Evading
Bacon.

Unarmed they might
Have easily, as spirits evaded swift
By quick contraction or remove.
Milton.

2.
To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.

The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these . . . ways.
South.


word: Evagation
definition:
Evagation

Ev`a*ga"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evagatio, fr. evagari to wander forth: cf. F. évagation. See Vagary.]
A wandering about; excursion; a roving.
[R.]
Ray.


word: Evaginate
definition:
Evaginate

E*vag"i*nate
(?)
a.
[L. evaginatus, p. p., unsheathed. See Evagination.]
Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination{2}; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.


word: Evaginate₂
definition:
Evaginate

E*vag"i*nate
(?)
v. i. & t.
[imp. & p. p. Evaginated; p. pr. & vb. n. Evaginating.]
To become evaginate; to cause to be evaginate.


word: Evagination
definition:
Evagination

E*vag`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evaginatio an extending, evaginare to unsheathe; e out + vagina sheath.]
1.
The act of unsheathing.

2.
An outgrowth or protruded part.


word: Evaluate
definition:
Evaluate

E*val"u*ate
(e̝*văl"&uuptack_;*āt)
v. t.
[See Evaluation.]
To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise.


word: Evaluation
definition:
Evaluation

E*val`u*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. évaluation, LL. evaluatio.]
Valuation; appraisement.
J. S. Mill.


word: evaluative
definition:
evaluative

evaluative
adj.
exercising or involving careful analytical evaluations.

Syn. -- analytical, appraising(prenominal).


word: evaluator
definition:
evaluator

evaluator
n.
an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality; an appraiser.

Syn. -- judge; appraiser.


word: Evanesce
definition:
Evanesce

Ev`a*nesce"
(ĕv`ȧ*nĕs")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Evanesced (ĕv`ȧ*nĕst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Evanescing. (ĕv`ȧ*nĕs"sĭng).]
[L. evanescere; e out + vanescere to vanish, fr. vanus empty, vain. See Vain, and cf. Evanish.]
To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.

I believe him to have evanesced or evaporated.
De Quincey.


word: Evanescence
definition:
Evanescence

Ev`a*nes"cence
(?)
n.
The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plans or hopes.
Rambler.


word: Evanescent
definition:
Evanescent

Ev`a*nes"cent
(?)
a.
[L. evanescens, -entis, p. pr. of evanescere.]
1.
Liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys.

So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars.
Hawthorne.

2.
Vanishing from notice; imperceptible.

The difference between right and wrong, in some petty cases, is almost evanescent.
Wollaston.


word: evangel
definition:
evangel

e*van"gel
(e̝*văn"jĕl)
n.
[F. évangile, L. evangelium, Gr. e'yagge`lion good news, glad tidings, gospel, fr. e'ya`ggelos bringing good news; e'y^ well + 'a`ggelein to bear a message. See Eu-, and Angel and cf. Evangely.]
Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel.
Milton.

Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel.
Whittier.


word: Evangelic
definition:
Evangelic

E`van*gel"ic
(?)
a.
[L. evangelicus, Gr. e'yaggeliko`s: cf. F. évangélique. See Evangel.]
Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
Evangelic
J. Foster.


word: Evangelical
definition:
Evangelical

E`van*gel"ic*al
(?)
a.
1.
Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.

2.
Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.

3.
Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preëminently orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of “Justification by Faith alone;” the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religious bodies not regarded as orthodox.

4.
Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause.

5.
Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8.

Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845. -- Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religious sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.


word: Evangelicalism
definition:
Evangelicalism

E`van*gel"ic*al*ism
(?)
n.
Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.
G. Eliot.


word: evangelist
definition:
evangelist

e*van"gel*ist
(e̝*văn"jĕl*ĭst)
n.
[F. évangéliste, L. evangelista, fr. Gr. e'yaggelisth`s.]
A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines.
Specifically:
(a)
A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher.
(b)
A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
(c)
A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.

The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the title though there were many evangelists who were not Apostles.
Plumptre.


word: Evangelistary
definition:
Evangelistary

E*van`gel*is"ta*ry
(?)
n.
[LL. evangelistarium.]
A selection of passages from the Gospels, as a lesson in divine service.
Porson.


word: Evangelistic
definition:
Evangelistic

E*van`gel*is"tic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to the four evangelists; designed or fitted to evangelize; evangelical; as, evangelistic efforts.


word: Evangelization
definition:
Evangelization

E*van`gel*i*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized.

The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization.
Hobbes.


word: evangelize
definition:
evangelize

e*van"gel*ize
(e̝*văn"jĕl*īz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. evangelized (e̝*văn"jĕl*īzd); p. pr. & vb. n. evangelizing (e̝*văn"jĕl*ī*zĭng)]
[F. évangélisre, LL. evangelizare, fr. Gr. e'yaggeli`zesqai.]
1.
To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.

His apostles whom he sends
To evangelize the nations.
Milton.

2.
Hence:
[metaphorical]
To preach and attempt to convert (people) to one's firmly held belief.


word: Evangile
definition:
Evangile

E*van"gile
(?)
n.
[F. évangile. See Evangel.]
Good tidings; evangel.
[R.]

Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom.
Landor.


word: Evanid
definition:
Evanid

E*van"id
(?)
a.
[L. evanidus, fr. evanescere. See Evanesce.]
Liable to vanish or disappear; faint; weak; evanescent; as, evanid color.
[Obs.]

They are very transitory and evanid.
Barrow.


word: Evanish
definition:
Evanish

E*van"ish
(?)
v. i.
[Pref. e- + vanish: cf. L. evanescere. See Evanesce, vanish.]
To vanish.

Or like the rainbow's lovely form,
Evanishing amid the storm.
Burns.


word: Evaporable
definition:
Evaporable

E*vap"o*ra*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.


word: Evaporate
definition:
Evaporate

E*vap"o*rate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Evaporated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evaporating (?).]
[L. evaporatus, p. p. of evaporare; e out + vapor steam or vapor. See Vapor.]
1.
To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in particles too minute to be visible.

2.
To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of a writer often evaporates in the process of translation.

To give moderate liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate . . . is a safe way.
Bacon.


word: Evaporate₂
definition:
Evaporate

E*vap"o*rate
v. t.
1.
To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.

2.
To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.

3.
To give vent to; to dissipate.
[R.]

My lord of Essex evaporated his thoughts in a sonnet.
Sir. H. Wotton.

Evaporating surface (Steam Boilers), that part of the heating surface with which water is in contact.


word: evaporated
definition:
evaporated

evaporated
adj.
reduced in volume by having moisture expelled before canning; same as condensed, 3; as, unsweetened evaporated milk.
[prenominal]

Syn. -- condensed(prenominal).


word: Evaporation
definition:
Evaporation

E*vap`o*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evaporatio: cf. F. évaporation.]
1.
The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

2.
The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.

3.
That which is evaporated; vapor.

4.
(Steam Engine)
See Vaporization.


word: Evaporative
definition:
Evaporative

E*vap"o*ra*tive
(?)
a.
[L. evaporatius: cf. F. évaporatif.]
Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.


word: Evaporator
definition:
Evaporator

E*vap"o*ra`tor
(?)
n.
1.
An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

2.
Any device designed to evaporate a fluid.

3.
Specifically:
The portion of a refrigeration system in which the refrigerant evaporates and thus absorbs heat.

rotary evaporator (Chem.) a device used in laboratories in which a liquid is evaporated by reducing the pressure and applying heat, while rotating the liquid in a vessel such as a round-bottomed flask.  The reduced pressure speeds the evaporation process and allows the evaporation to be conducted at temperatures lower than would otgherwise be possible, thus reducing decomposition of unstable substances.  The rotation also serves to increase the surface area from which evaporation takes place and to reduce the effect of "bumping", the sudden burst of vaporization that can scatter liquid exposed to reduced pressure.


word: Evaporometer
definition:
Evaporometer

E*vap`o*rom"e*ter
(?)
n.
[L. evaporare to evaporate + -meter: cf. F. évapormètre.]
(Physics)
An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of a fluid evaporated in a given time; an atmometer.


word: evasion
definition:
evasion

e*va"sion
(e̝*vā"zhŭn)
n.
[L. evasio: cf. F. évasion. See Evade.]
The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more.
Milton.


word: evasive
definition:
evasive

e*va"sive
(e̝*vā"sĭv)
a.
[Cf. F. évasif. See Evade.]
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.

Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
Answered evasive of the sly request.
Pope.

Stammered out a few evasive phrases.
Macaulay.


word: evasiveness
definition:
evasiveness

e*va"siv*eness
(e̝*vā"sĭv*nĕs)
n.
Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.

Syn. -- equivocation.


word: Eve
definition:
Eve

Eve
(ēv)
n.
[See Even, n.]
1.
Evening.
[Poetic]

Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
Thomson.

2.
The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
eve
Keble.

Eve churr (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.


word: Evectics
definition:
Evectics

E*vec"tics
(?)
n.
[Gr. e'yektiko`s healthy.]
The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.
[Obs.]


word: Evection
definition:
Evection

E*vec"tion
(?)
[L. evectio a going up, fr. evehere to carry out; e out + vehere to carry: cf. F évection.]
1.
The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.
[Obs.]
Bp. Pearson.

2.
(Astron.)
(a)
An inequality of the moon's motion in its orbit, due to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1° 20′.
(b)
The libration of the moon.
Whewell.


word: Even
definition:
Even

E"ven
(ēv"'n)
n.
[OE. eve, even, efen, æfen. AS. &aemacr_;fen; akin to OS. āband, OFries, āvend, D. avond, OHG. āband, Icel. aptan, Sw. afton, Dan. aften; of unknown origin.  Cf. Eve, Evening.]
Evening. See Eve, n. 1.
[Poetic.]
Shak.


word: Even₂
definition:
Even

E"ven
a.
[AS. efen. efn; akin to OS. eban, D. even, OHG. eban, G. efen, Icel. jafn, Dan. jevn, Sw. jämn, Goth. ibns.  Cf. Anent, Ebb.]
1.
Level, smooth, or equal in surface; not rough; free from irregularities; hence uniform in rate of motion of action; as, even ground; an even speed; an even course of conduct.

2.
Equable; not easily ruffled or disturbed; calm; uniformly self-possessed; as, an even temper.

3.
Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.

And shall lay thee even with the ground.
Luke xix. 44.

4.
Balanced; adjusted; fair; equitable; impartial; just to both sides; owing nothing on either side; -- said of accounts, bargains, or persons indebted; as, our accounts are even; an even bargain.

To make the even truth in pleasure flow.
Shak.

5.
Without an irregularity, flaw, or blemish; pure.
even
Shak.

6.
Associate; fellow; of the same condition.
[Obs.]
even
Wyclif (Matt. xviii. 29).

7.
Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.

Whether the number of the stars is even or odd.
Jer. Taylor.

On even ground, with equal advantage. -- On even keel (Naut.), in a level or horizontal position.


word: Even₃
definition:
Even

E"ven
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evening (?)]
1.
To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.

His temple Xerxes evened with the soil.
Sir. W. Raleigh.

It will even all inequalities
Evelyn.

2.
To equal.
[Obs.]
even
Fuller.

3.
To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits; to make equal; as, to even the score.
Shak.

4.
To set right; to complete.

5.
To act up to; to keep pace with.
Shak.


word: Even₅
definition:
Even

E"ven
adv.
[AS. efne. See Even, a., and cf. E'en.]
1.
In an equal or precisely similar manner; equally; precisely; just; likewise; as well.
even
Shak.

Even so did these Gauls possess the coast.
Spenser.

2.
Up to, or down to, an unusual measure or level; so much as; fully; quite.

Thou wast a soldier
Even to Cato's wish.
Shak.

Without . . . making us even sensible of the change.
Swift.

3.
As might not be expected; -- serving to introduce what is unexpected or less expected.

I have made several discoveries, which appear new, even to those who are versed in critical learning.
Addison.

4.
At the very time; in the very case.

I knew they were bad enough to please, even when I wrote them.
Dryden.

&hand_; Even is sometimes used to emphasize a word or phrase. “I have debated even in my soul.”
Shak.

By these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer.
Shak.


word: Evener
definition:
Evener

E"ven*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which makes even.

2.
In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.


word: Evenhanded
definition:
Evenhanded

E"ven*hand`ed
a.
Fair or impartial; unbiased.
Evenhanded
Shak.
E"ven*hand`ed*ly, adv. -- E"ven*hand`ed*ness, n. Froude.


word: Evening
definition:
Evening

E"ven*ing
(?)
n.
[AS. &aemacr_;fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]
1.
The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.

In the ascending scale
Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
Milton.

&hand_; Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United States, the afternoon is called evening.
Bartlett.

2.
The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

&hand_; Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. “Evening Prayer.”
Shak.

Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants (Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening. -- Evening grosbeak (Zoöl.), an American singing bird (Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening. -- Evening primrose. See under Primrose. -- The evening star, the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.


word: evening bag
definition:
evening bag

evening bag
n.
a small dressy handbag,  richly decorated, carried by women for formal occasions in the evening.


word: evening-snow
definition:
evening-snow

evening-snow
n.
small California annual (Linanthus dichotomus) with white flowers.

Syn. -- evening snow, Linanthus dichotomus.


word: eveningwear
definition:
eveningwear

eveningwear
n.
attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening.

Syn. -- formalwear, evening dress, evening clothes.


word: Evenly
definition:
Evenly

E"ven*ly
(?)
adv.
With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.


word: Evenness
definition:
Evenness

E"ven*ness
n.
The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

It had need be something extraordinary, that must warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own evenness.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Evensong
definition:
Evensong

E"ven*song`
(?)
n.
[AS. &aemacr_;fensang.]
A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship (in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, the time of evensong.
Wyclif. Milton.


word: Event
definition:
Event

E*vent"
(?)
n.
[L. eventus, fr. evenire to happen, come out; e out + venire to come. See Come.]
1.
That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
events
Macaulay.

To watch quietly the course of events.
Jowett (Thucyd. )

There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked.
Eccl. ix. 2.

2.
An affair in hand; business; enterprise.
[Obs.]
events
Shak.

3.
The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

Dark doubts between the promise and event.
Young.


word: Event₂
definition:
Event

E*vent"
(?)
v. t.
[F. éventer to fan, divulge, LL. eventare to fan, fr., L. e out + ventus wind.]
To break forth.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Eventerate
definition:
Eventerate

E*ven"ter*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. e out + venter the belly: cf. F. éventer.]
To rip open; to disembowel.
[Obs.]
Sir. T. Brown.


word: Eventful
definition:
Eventful

E*vent"ful
(?)
a.
Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.


word: Eventide
definition:
Eventide

E"ven*tide`
(?)
n.
[AS. &aemacr_;fentīd. See Tide.]
The time of evening; evening.
[Poetic.]
Spenser.


word: event horizon
definition:
event horizon

e*vent" ho*ri"zon
(?)
n.
(Physics, Astron.)
the boundary surface surrounding a black hole, from outside of which nothing inside can be observed, because nothing inside that surface, even light, can escape beyond it.  See also black hole and escape velocity.


word: Eventilate
definition:
Eventilate

E*ven"ti*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. eventilatus, p. p. of eventilare to fan. See Ventilate.]
1.
To winnow out; to fan.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.

2.
To discuss; to ventilate.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Eventless
definition:
Eventless

E*vent"less
(?)
a.
Without events; tame; monotonous; marked by nothing unusual; uneventful.


word: Eventognathi
definition:
Eventognathi

Ev`en*tog"na*thi
(?)
n. pl.
[NL., fr. Dr. e'y^ well + _; within gna`qos the jaw.]
(Zoöl.)
An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.


word: Eventration
definition:
Eventration

E`ven*tra*tion
(?)
n.
[L. e out + venter belly.]
(Med.)
(a)
A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.
(b)
A wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.
(c)
The act of disemboweling.


word: Eventual
definition:
Eventual

E*ven"tu*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. éventiel. See Event.]
1.
Coming or happening as a consequence or result; consequential.
Burke.

2.
Final; ultimate.
Eventual
Cooper.

3.
(Law)
Dependent on events; contingent.
Marshall.


word: Eventuality
definition:
Eventuality

E*ven`tu*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Eventualities (#).
[Cf. F. éventualité.]
1.
The coming as a consequence; contingency; also, an event which comes as a consequence.

2.
(Phren.)
Disposition to take cognizance of events.


word: Eventuate
definition:
Eventuate

E*ven"tu*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Eventuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eventuating.]
To come out finally or in conclusion; to result; to come to pass.


word: Eventuation
definition:
Eventuation

E*ven`tu*a"tion
(?)
n.
The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome.
R. W. Hamilton.


word: Ever
definition:
Ever

Ev"er
(?)
adv.
[OE. ever, æfre, AS. æfre; perh. akin to AS. ā always.  Cf. Aye, Age,Evry, Never.]
[Sometimes contracted into e'er.]
1.
At any time; at any period or point of time.

No man ever yet hated his own flesh.
Eph. v. 29.

2.
At all times; through all time; always; forever.

He shall ever love, and always be
The subject of by scorn and cruelty.
Dryder.

3.
Without cessation; continually.

&hand_; Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of enforcement. “His the old man e'er a son?”
Shak.

To produce as much as ever they can.
M. Arnold.

Ever and anon, now and then; often. See under Anon. -- Ever is one, continually; constantly. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ever so, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated adjective or adverb. See Never so, under Never.   “Let him be ever so rich.” Emerson.
[1913 Webster]
And all the question (wrangle e'er so long),
Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. Pope.
[1913 Webster]
You spend ever so much money in entertaining your equals and betters. Thackeray.
-- For ever, eternally. See Forever. -- For ever and a day, emphatically forever. Shak.
[1913 Webster]
She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful laughter, out of sight for ever and day. Prof. Wilson.
-- Or ever (for or ere), before. See Or, ere. [Archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! Shak.


&hand_; Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen, but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.


word: Everest
definition:
Everest

Everest
prop. n.
the highest mountain in the world, situated in Nepal and Tibet; 29,028 feet high.
proper name
Also used as a metaphor for a high mountain.

Syn. -- Mount Everest, Mt. Everest.


word: Everglade
definition:
Everglade

Ev`er*glade
(?)
n.
A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida.
[U. S.]

&hand_;  When used in the United States without qualification, the word Everglades is understood to refer to the Everglades of southern Florida.


word: Evergreen
definition:
Evergreen

Ev"er*green
(?)
a.
(Bot.)
Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.


word: Evergreen₂
definition:
Evergreen

Ev"er*green
n.
1.
(Bot.)
An evergreen plant.

2.
pl.
Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
evengreens
Keble.


word: Evergreen State
definition:
Evergreen State

Evergreen State
Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.


word: Everych
definition:
Everych

Everich

{ Ev"er*ich (?), Ev"er*ych  }
a.
[OE. see Every.]
each one; every one; each of two. See Every.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Everychon
definition:
Everychon

Everichon

{ Ev`er*ich*on", Ev`er*ych*on"  }
(?)
pron.
[OE. everich + oon, on, one. See Every, and One.]
Every one.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Everlasting
definition:
Everlasting

Ever*last"ing
(?)
a.
1.
Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immortal; eternal.
Everlasting
Gen. xx1. 33.

2.
Continuing indefinitely, or during a long period; perpetual; sometimes used, colloquially, as a strong intensive; as, this everlasting nonsence.

I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee . . . the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession.
Gen xvii. 8.

And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness.
Pope.
Whether we shall meet again I know not;
Therefore our everlasting farewell take;
Forever, and forever farewell, Cassius.
Shak.

Everlasting flower. Sane as Everlasting, n., 3. -- Everlasting pea, an ornamental plant (Lathyrus latifolius) related to the pea; -- so called because it is perennial.


word: Everlasting₂
definition:
Everlasting

Ev`er*last"ing
n.
1.
Eternal duration, past or future; eternity.

From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Ps. xc. 2.

2.
(With the definite article) The Eternal Being; God.

3.
(Bot.)
A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form or color, as, the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), the immortelle (Xeranthemum anuum) of the French, the cudweeds, etc.

4.
A cloth fabric for shoes, etc. See Lasting.


word: Everlastingness
definition:
Everlastingness

Ev`er*last"ing*ness
n.
The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.


word: Everliving
definition:
Everliving

Ev`er*liv"ing
(?)
a.
1.
Living always; immoral; eternal; as, the everliving God.

2.
Continual; incessant; unintermitted.


word: Evermore
definition:
Evermore

Ev`er*more"
(?)
adv.
During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.

Seek the Lord . . . Seek his face evermore.
Ps. cv. 4.

And, behold, I am alive for evermore.
Rev. i. 18.

Which flow from the presence of God for evermore.
Tillotson.

I evermore did love you, Hermia.
Shak.


word: Everse
definition:
Everse

E*verse"
(?)
v. t.
[L. eversus, p. p. of evertere to turn out, overthrow; e out + vertere to turn.  Cf. Evert.]
To overthrow or subvert.
[Obs.]
Glanvill.


word: Eversion
definition:
Eversion

E*ver"sion
(?)
n.
[L. eversio: cf. F. éversion.]
1.
The act of eversing; destruction.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.


word: Eversive
definition:
Eversive

E*ver"sive
(?)
a.
Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of.

A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality.
Geddes.


word: Evert
definition:
Evert

E*vert"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Everted; p. pr. & vb. n. Everting.]
[L. evertere. See Everse.]
1.
To overthrow; to subvert.
[R.]
Ayliffe.

2.
To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.


word: Every
definition:
Every

Ev"er*y
(?)
a. & a. pron.
[OE. everich, everilk; AS. &aemacr_;fre ever + ælc each. See Ever, each.]
1.
All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite number.

Every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Ps. xxxix. 5.

Every door and window was adorned with wreaths of flowers.
Macaulay.

2.
Every one.  Cf. Each.
[Obs.]
Every
Shak.

Daily occasions given to every of us.
Hooker.

Every each, every one. [Obs.] “Every each of them hath some vices.” Burton.. -- Every now and then, at short intervals; occasionally; repeatedly; frequently. [Colloq.]

&hand_; Every may, by way of emphasis, precede the article the with a superlative adjective; as, every, the least variation.
Locke.
In each division there were four pentecosties, in every pentecosty four enomoties, and of each enomoty there fought in the front rank four [soldiers].
Jowett (Thucyd. ).

If society is to be kept together and the children of Adam to be saved from setting up each for himself with every one else his foe.
J. H. Newman.


word: Everyday
definition:
Everyday

Ev"er*y*day`
(?)
a.
Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit of clothes.

The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment.
Sir. J. Herchel.


word: Everything
definition:
Everything

Ev"er*y*thing`
(?)
n.
Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things.

More wise, more learned, more just, more everything.
Pope.


word: Everywhere
definition:
Everywhere

Ev"er*y*where`
(?)
adv.
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; thoroughly; altogether.


word: Evestigate
definition:
Evestigate

E*ves"ti*gate
(?)
v. t.
[L. evestigatus traced out; e out + vestigatus, p. p. of vestigare. See Vestigate.]
To investigate.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Evet
definition:
Evet

Ev"et
(?)
n.
[See Eft, n.]
(Zoöl.)
The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.
[Written also evat.]


word: Evict
definition:
Evict

E*vict"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Evicting.]
[L. evictus, p. p. of evincere to overcome completely, evict. See Evince.]
1.
(Law)
To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession.
Sir. J. Davies.

2.
To evince; to prove.
[Obs.]
Cheyne.


word: Eviction
definition:
Eviction

E*vic"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evictio: cf. F. éviction.]
1.
The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

2.
Conclusive evidence; proof.
[Obs.]

Full eviction of this fatal truth.
South.


word: Evidence
definition:
Evidence

Ev"i*dence
(?)
n.
[F. évidence, L. Evidentia. See Evident.]
1.
That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.

Faith is . . . the evidence of things not seen.
Heb. xi. 1.

O glorious trial of exceeding love
Illustrious evidence, example high.
Milton.

2.
One who bears witness.
[R.]
evidences
Sir W. Scott.

3.
(Law)
That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
Greenleaf.

Circumstantial evidence, Conclusive evidence, etc. See under Circumstantial, Conclusive, etc. -- Crown's evidence, King's evidence, or Queen's evidence, evidence for the crown, in English courts; equivalent to state's evidence in American courts. [Eng.] -- State's evidence, evidence for the government or the people. [U. S. ] -- To turn King's evidence To turn Queen's evidence, or To turn State's evidence, to confess a crime and give evidence against one's accomplices.


word: Evidence₂
definition:
Evidence

Ev"i*dence
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evidenced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evidencing (?).]
To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.
Milton.


word: Evident
definition:
Evident

Ev"i*dent
(?)
a.
[F. évinent, l. evidens, -entis; e out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision.]
Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident.

Your honor and your goodness is so evident.
Shak.

And in our faces evident the signs
Of foul concupiscence.
Milton.


word: Evidential
definition:
Evidential

Ev`i*den"tial
(?)
a.
Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.
Bp. Fleetwood.
Evidential
Earle..
Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.


word: Evidentiary
definition:
Evidentiary

Ev`i*den"ti*a*ry
(?)
a.
Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential.

When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, or a mark of, some other fact.
J. S. Mill.


word: Evidently
definition:
Evidently

Ev"i*dent*ly
(?)
adv.
In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.

Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth.
Gal. iii. 1.

He was evidently in the prime of youth.
W. Irving.


word: Evigilation
definition:
Evigilation

E*vig`i*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evigilatio; e out + vigilare to be awake. See Vigilant.]
A waking up or awakening.
[Obs.]


word: Evil
definition:
Evil

E*vil
(ē"v'l)
a.
[OE. evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. yfel; akin to OFries, evel, D. euvel, OS. & OHG. ubil, G. übel, Goth. ubils, and perh. to E. over.]
1.
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.
Matt. vii. 18.

2.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
When death's approach is seen so terrible.
Shak.

3.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
Deut. xxii. 19.

The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign.
Shak.

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
Milton.

Evil eye, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look.
[1913 Webster]
It almost led him to believe in the evil eye. J. H. Newman.
-- Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. -- The evil one, the Devil; Satan.

&hand_; Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil doer or evildoer, evil speaking or evil-speaking, evil worker, evil wishing, evil-hearted, evil-minded.


word: Evil₂
definition:
Evil

E"vil
(ē"v'l)
n.
1.
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.
Milton.

The evil that men do lives after them.
Shak.

2.
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
Eccl. ix. 3.

3.
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
[R.]
Shak.

He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Addison.


word: Evil₃
definition:
Evil

E"vil
adv.
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Shak.

It went evil with his house.
1 Chron. vii. 23.

The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
Deut. xxvi. 6.


word: evildoer
definition:
evildoer

e"vil*do`er
n.
a person who performs an evil deed; one who sins (without repenting).

Syn. -- sinner.


word: Evil-eyed
definition:
Evil-eyed

E"vil-eyed
(?)
a.
Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.
Shak.


word: Evil-favored
definition:
Evil-favored

E"vil-fa`vored
(?)
a.
Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed.
Bacon.


word: Evil-minded
definition:
Evil-minded

E"vil-mind`ed
(?)
a.
Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.
E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.


word: Evilness
definition:
Evilness

E"vil*ness
n.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.


word: Evince
definition:
Evince

E*vince"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evinced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evincing (?).]
[L. evincere vanquish completely, prevail, succeed in proving; e out + vincere to vanquish. See Victor, and cf. Evict.]
1.
To conquer; to subdue.
[Obs.]

Error by his own arms is best evinced.
Milton.

2.
To show in a clear manner; to prove beyond any reasonable doubt; to manifest; to make evident; to bring to light; to evidence.

Common sense and experience must and will evince the truth of this.
South.


word: Evincible
definition:
Evincible

E*vin"ci*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable.
Sir. M. Hale.


word: Evincive
definition:
Evincive

E*vin"cive
(?)
a.
Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.


word: Evirate
definition:
Evirate

E"vi*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. eviratus, p. p. of evirare to castrate; e out + vir man.]
To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Eviscerate
definition:
Eviscerate

E*vis"cer*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Eviscerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eviscerating (?).]
[L. evisceratus, p. p. of eviscerare to eviscerate; e out + viscera the bowels. See Viscera.]
To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.


word: Evitate
definition:
Evitate

Ev"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[L. evitatus, p. p. of evitare to shun; e out + vitare to shun.]
To shun; to avoid.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Eviternal
definition:
Eviternal

Ev`i*ter"nal
(?)
a.
[L. eviternus, aeternus. See Etern.]
Eternal; everlasting.
[Obs.]
Ev`i*ter"nal*ly, adv.
Bp. Hall.


word: Evocate
definition:
Evocate

Ev"o*cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. evocatus, p. p. of evocare. See Evoke.]
To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke.
[R.]
Stackhouse.


word: Evocation
definition:
Evocation

Ev`o*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. evocatio: cf. F. évocation.]
The act of calling out or forth.
Sir. T. Browne.

The evocation of that better spirit.
M. Arnold.


word: Evocative
definition:
Evocative

E*vo"ca*tive
(?)
a.
Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing.

Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man.
W. Pater.


word: Evoke
definition:
Evoke

E*voke"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evoked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.]
[L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F évoquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]
1.
To call out; to summon forth.

To evoke the queen of the fairies.
T. Warton.

A regulating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
De Quincey.

2.
To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another.
[R.]
evoked
Hume.


word: Evolatical
definition:
Evolatical

Evolatic

{ Ev`o*lat"ic (?), Ev`o*lat"ic*al (?), }
a.
[L. evolare to fly away; e out + volare to fly.]
Apt to fly away.
[Obs. or R.]
Blount.


word: Evolute
definition:
Evolute

Ev"o*lute
(?)
n.
[L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See Evolve.]
(Geom.)
A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute.  It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

&hand_; Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute.


word: Evolutility
definition:
Evolutility

Ev`o*lu*til"i*ty
(ĕv`o̝*l&uuptack_;*tĭl"ĭ*t&ybreve_;)
n.
[See Evolution.]
(Biol.)
The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure.
Syd. Soc. Lex.


word: Evolution
definition:
Evolution

Ev`o*lu"tion
(ĕv`o̝*lū"shŭn)
n.
[L. evolutio an unrolling: cf. F. évolution evolution. See Evolve.]
1.
The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, any process of growth or development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

2.
A series of things unrolled or unfolded.
evolution
Dr. H. More.

3.
(Geom.)
The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.
Hutton.

4.
(Arith. & Alg.)
The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

5.
(Mil. & Naval)
A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver.

Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity.
Campbell.

6.
(Biol.)
A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development.

7.
(Biol.)
That theory of generation which supposes the germ to preëxist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis.

8.
(Metaph.)
That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function.  The process is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical.  It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity.  The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs.

Evolution is to me series with development.
Gladstone.


word: Evolutionism
definition:
Evolutionism

Ev`o*lu"tion*ism
(?)
n.
The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See Evolution, 6 and 7.


word: Evolutionist
definition:
Evolutionist

Ev`o*lu"tion*ist
(?)
n.
1.
One skilled in evolutions.

2.
One who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics.
Darwin.


word: Evolve
definition:
Evolve

E*volve"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Evolved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Evolving.]
[L. evolvere, evolutum; e out + volvere to roll. See Voluble.]
1.
To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.

The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
Sir. M. Hale.

The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.
Whewell.

Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
J. C. Shairp.

2.
To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.


word: Evolve₂
definition:
Evolve

E*volve"
v. i.
To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.
Prior.


word: Evolvent
definition:
Evolvent

E*volv"ent
(?)
n.
[L. evolvens, -entis, unrolling, p. pr. of evolvere.]
(Geom.)
The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.


word: Evomit
definition:
Evomit

E*vom"it
(?)
v. t.
[L. evomitus, p. p. of evomere to vomit forth; e out + vomere.]
To vomit.
[Obs.]


word: Evulgate
definition:
Evulgate

E*vul"gate
(e̝*vŭl"gāt)
v. t.
[L. evulgatus, p. p. of evulgare to publish.]
To publish abroad.
[Obs.]


word: Evulsion
definition:
Evulsion

E*vul"sion
(e̝*vŭl"shŭn)
n.
[L. evulsio, fr. evellere, evulsum, to pluck out; e out + vellere to pluck; cf. F. évulsion.]
The act of plucking out; a rooting out.


word: Ewe
definition:
Ewe

Ewe
(ū)
n.
[AS. eówu; akin to D. ooi, OHG. awi, ouwi, Icel. ær, Goth. awēþi a flock of sheep, awistr a sheepfold, Lith. avis a sheep, L. ovis, Gr. 'o`i:s, Skr. avi. √231.]
(Zoöl.)
The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.


word: Ewe-necked
definition:
Ewe-necked

Ewe"-necked`
(ū"nĕkt`)
a.
Having a neck like a ewe; -- said of horses in which the arch of the neck is deficient, being somewhat hollowed out.
Youwatt.


word: Ewer
definition:
Ewer

Ew"er
(ū"ẽr)
n.
[OF. ewer, euwier, prop. a water carrier, F. évier a washing place, sink, aiguière ewer, L. aquarius, adj., water carrying, n., a water carrier, fr. aqua water; akin to Goth. ahwa water, river, OHG. aha, G. au, aue, meadow. √219.  Cf. Aquarium, Aquatic, Island.]
A kind of wide-mouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to hold water for the toilet.

Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands.
Shak.


word: Ewry
definition:
Ewry

Ewery

{ Ew"er*y (ū"ẽr*&ybreve_;), Ew"ry (ū"r&ybreve_;) }
n.
[From Ewer.]
An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.
[Enq.]
Parker.


word: ex
definition:
ex

ex
(ĕks)
n.
[contraction]
An ex-wife or ex-husband; a former spouse; -- used usually with a possessive; as, she invited her ex to her second wedding; her ex; his ex; John's ex.
[informal]


word: ex₃
definition:
ex

ex
(ĕks)
prep.
(Finance)
Without (some right); not including the right to have; as, a stock selling ex dividend (a stock for which the right to a dividend has expired the previous day); ex interest; ex rights.


word: Ex-
definition:
Ex-

Ex-
(ĕks)
A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from.  Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out, as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminous, exsanguinous.  In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification.  It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse.  The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite.  Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-wife, ex-convict.  The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.


word: Exacerbate
definition:
Exacerbate

Ex*ac"er*bate
(ĕgz*ăs"ẽr*bāt; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exacerbated (ĕgz*ăs"ẽr*bā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Exacerbating (ĕgz*ăs"ẽr*bā`tĭng).]
[L. exacerbatus, p. p. of exacerbare; ex out (intens.) + acerbare. See Acerbate.]
To render more violent or bitter; to irritate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
Brougham.


word: exacerbating
definition:
exacerbating

ex*ac"er*ba`ting
(ĕgz*ăs"ẽr*bā`tĭng)
adj.
Making worse.

Syn. -- aggravating, exasperating.


word: Exacerbation
definition:
Exacerbation

Ex*ac`er*ba"tion
(ĕgz*ăs`ẽr*bā"shŭn)
n.
[Cf. F. exacerbation.]
1.
The act of rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

2.
(Med.)
A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continuous fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.


word: Exacerbescence
definition:
Exacerbescence

Ex*ac`er*bes"cence
(ĕgz*ăs`ẽr*bĕs"sens)
n.
[L. exacerbescens, -entis, p. pr. of exacerbescere, incho. of exacerbare.]
Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.


word: Exacervation
definition:
Exacervation

Ex*ac`er*va"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exacervare to heap up exceedingly. See Ex-, and Acervate.]
The act of heaping up.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Exact
definition:
Exact

Ex*act"
(?)
a.
[L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See Agent, Act.]
1.
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
Jowett (Thucyd. )

2.
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
exact
Milton.

3.
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

An exact command,
Larded with many several sorts of reason.
Shak.


word: Exact₂
definition:
Exact

Ex*act"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.]
[From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, a.]
To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
Luke. iii. 13.

Years of servise past
From grateful souls exact reward at last
Dryden.

My designs
Exact me in another place.
Massinger.


word: Exact₃
definition:
Exact

Ex*act"
v. i.
To practice exaction.
[R.]

The anemy shall not exact upon him.
Ps. lxxxix. 22.


word: Exacting
definition:
Exacting

Ex*act"ing
a.
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
exacting
T. Arnold
Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.


word: Exaction
definition:
Exaction

Ex*ac"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exactio: cf. F. exaction.]
1.
The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion.

Take away your exactions from my people.
Ezek. xlv. 9.

Daily new exactions are devised.
Shak.

Illegal exactions of sheriffs and officials.
Bancroft.

2.
That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice.
Daniel.


word: Exactly
definition:
Exactly

Ex*act"ly
adv.
In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
Exactly
Shak.

His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required.
Bancroft.


word: Exactness
definition:
Exactness

Ex*act"ness
n.
1.
The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of judgement or deportment.

2.
Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.

He had . . . that sort of exactness which would have made him a respectable antiquary.
Macaulay.


word: Exactor
definition:
Exactor

Ex*act"or
(?)
n.
[L.: cf. F. exacteur.]
One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exacuate
definition:
Exacuate

Ex*ac"u*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exacure; ex out (intens.) + acuere to make sharp.]
To whet or sharpen.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Ex*ac`u*a"tion (#), n. [Obs.]


word: Exaeresis
definition:
Exaeresis

Ex*ær"e*sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr._; a taking away.]
(Surg.)
In old writers, the operations concerned in the removal of parts of the body.


word: Exaggerate
definition:
Exaggerate

Ex*ag"ger*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exaggerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exaggerating . ]
[L. exaggeratus , p. p. of exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to +  gerere to bear. See Jest. ]
1.
To heap up; to accumulate.
[Obs.]
exaggerated
Sir M. Hale.

2.
To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues.
Addison.


word: Exaggerating
definition:
Exaggerating

Ex*ag"ger*a`ting
(?)
a.
That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.
Ex*ag"ger*a`ting*ly, adv.


word: Exaggeration
definition:
Exaggeration

Ex*ag`ger*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exaggeratio : cf. F.  exagération.]
1.
The act of heaping or piling up.
[Obs.]
Exaggeration
Sir M. Hale.

2.
The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

No need of an exaggeration of what they saw.
I. Taylor.

3.
(Paint.)
A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.


word: Exaggerative
definition:
Exaggerative

Ex*ag"ger*a*tive
(?)
a.
Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.
Exaggerative
Geddes.
Exaggerative
W. J. Linton.


word: Exaggerator
definition:
Exaggerator

Ex*ag"ger*a`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration.
L. Horner.


word: Exaggeratory
definition:
Exaggeratory

Ex*ag"ger*a*to*ry
(?)
a.
Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative.
Johnson.


word: Exagitate
definition:
Exagitate

Ex*ag"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exagitatus, p. p. of exagitare. See Ex-, and Agitate.]
1.
To stir up; to agitate.
[Obs.]
Arbuthnot.

2.
To satirize; to censure severely.
[Obs.]
Hooker.


word: Exagitation
definition:
Exagitation

Ex*ag`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exagitatio : cf. OF. exagitation.]
Agitation.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Exalbuminous
definition:
Exalbuminous

Ex`al*bu"mi*nous
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + albumen.]
(Bot.)
Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.


word: Exalt
definition:
Exalt

Ex*alt"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exalted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exalting.]
[L. exaltare; ex out (intens.) + altare to make high, altus high: cf.F. exalter. See Altitude.]
1.
To raise high; to elevate; to lift up.

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
Is. xiv. 13.

Exalt thy towery head, and lift thine eyes
Pope.

2.
To elevate in rank, dignity, power, wealth, character, or the like; to dignify; to promote; as, to exalt a prince to the throne, a citizen to the presidency.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Prov. xiv. 34.

He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke xiv. 11.

3.
To elevate by prise or estimation; to magnify; to extol; to glorify.
Exalt
Ps. xcix. 5.

In his own grace he doth exalt himself.
Shak.

4.
To lift up with joy, pride, or success; to inspire with delight or satisfaction; to elate.

They who thought they got whatsoever he lost were mightily exalted.
Dryden.

5.
To elevate the tone of, as of the voice or a musical instrument.
Is. xxxvii. 23.

Now Mars, she said, let Fame exalt her voice.
Prior.

6.
(Alchem.)
To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies.

With chemic art exalts the mineral powers.
Pope.


word: Exaltate
definition:
Exaltate

Ex"al*tate
(?)
a.
[L. exaltatus, p. p. of exaltare to exalt.]
(Astrol.)
Exercising its highest influence; -- said of a planet.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.


word: Exaltation
definition:
Exaltation

Ex`al*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exaltatio: cf. F.exaltation.]
1.
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.

Wondering at my flight, and change
 To this high exaltation.
Milton.

2.
(Alchem.)
The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

3.
(Astrol.)
That place of a planet in the zodiac in which it was supposed to exert its strongest influence.

4.
(Med.)
An abnormal sense of personal well-being, power, or importance, -- a symptom observed in various forms of insanity.


word: Exalted
definition:
Exalted

Ex*alt"ed
(?)
a.
Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

Wiser far than Solomon,
Of more exalted mind.
Milton.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
Ames.


word: Examen
definition:
Examen

Ex*a"men
(?)
n.
[L., the tongue of a balance, examination; for exagmen, fr. exigere to weigh accurately, to treat: cf. F. examen. See Exact, a.]
Examination; inquiry.
[R.]
examen
Cowper.


word: Examinant
definition:
Examinant

Ex*am"i*nant
(?)
n.
[L. examinans, -antis, examining.]
1.
One who examines; an examiner.
Sir W. Scott.

2.
One who is to be examined.
[Obs.]
H. Prideaux.


word: Examinate
definition:
Examinate

Ex*am"i*nate
(?)
n.
[L. examinatus, p. p. of examinare. See Examine. ]
A person subjected to examination.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Examination
definition:
Examination

Ex*am`i*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. examinatio: cf. F. examination.]
1.
The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.

2.
A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.

He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations.
Macaulay.

Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him. -- Cross-examination, that made by the opposite party. -- Reëxamination, or Re-direct examination, (Law) that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.


word: Examine
definition:
Examine

Ex*am"ine
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Examined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Examining.]
[L. examinare, examinatum, fr. examen, examinis: cf. F. examiner. See Examen.]
1.
To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry or inspection of particulars for the purpose of obtaining a fuller insight into the subject of examination, as a material substance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question.

Examine well your own thoughts.
Chaucer.

Examine their counsels and their cares.
Shak.

2.
To interrogate as in a judicial proceeding; to try or test by question; as, to examine a witness in order to elicit testimony, a student to test his qualifications, a bankrupt touching the state of his property, etc.

The offenders that are to be examined.
Shak.


word: Examiner
definition:
Examiner

Ex*am"in*er
(?)
n.
One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.


word: Examining
definition:
Examining

Ex*am"in*ing
a.
Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.


word: Examplary
definition:
Examplary

Ex"am*pla*ry
(?)
a.
[From Example, cf. Exemplary.]
Serving for example or pattern; exemplary.
[Obs.]
Hooker.


word: Example
definition:
Example

Ex*am"ple
(?)
n.
[A later form for ensample, fr. L. exemplum, orig., what is taken out of a larger quantity, as a sample, from eximere to take out. See Exempt, and cf. Ensample, Sample.]
1.
One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.

2.
That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
John xiii. 15.

I gave, thou sayest, the example; I led the way.
Milton.

3.
That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.

Such temperate order in so fierce a cause
Doth want example.
Shak.

4.
That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.

Hang him; he'll be made an example.
Shak.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
1 Cor. x. 6.

5.
An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and   grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.


word: Example₂
definition:
Example

Ex*am"ple
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exampled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exampling (?).]
To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
[Obs.]
example
Shak.

Burke devoted himself to this duty with a fervid assiduity that has not often been exampled, and has never been surpassed.
J. Morley.


word: Exampler
definition:
Exampler

Ex*am"pler
(?)
n.
[See Exemplar, Example, and cf. Sampler.]
A pattern; an exemplar.
[Obs.]


word: Exanimate
definition:
Exanimate

Ex*an"i*mate
(?)
a.
[L. exanimatus, p. p. of exanimare to deprive of life or spirit; ex out + anima air, breath, life, spirit.]
1.
Lifeless; dead.
[R.]
exanimate
Spenser.

2.
Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened.
[R.]
exanimate
Thomson.


word: Exanimation
definition:
Exanimation

Ex*an`i*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exanimatio.]
Deprivation of life or of spirits.
[R.]
Bailey.


word: Exanimous
definition:
Exanimous

Ex*an"i*mous
(?)
a.
[L. exanimus, exanimis; ex out, without + anima life.]
Lifeless; dead.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Exannulate
definition:
Exannulate

Ex*an"nu*late
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + annulate.]
(Bot.)
Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.


word: Exanthema
definition:
Exanthema

Ex`an*the"ma
(?)
n.
pl. Exanthemata (#).
[L., fr. Gr._;, fr._; to burst forth as flowers, break out, as ulcers; _;, _;, out + 'anqei^n to bloom, 'a`nqos flower: cf. F. exanthème.]
(Med.)
An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever.
Dunglison.


word: Exanthematous
definition:
Exanthematous

Exanthematic

{ Ex*an`the*mat"ic (?), Ex`an*them"a*tous (?), }
a.
Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.


word: Exanthesis
definition:
Exanthesis

Ex`an*the"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., from Gr. _; . See Exanthema. ]
(Med.)
An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.


word: Exantlate
definition:
Exantlate

Ex*ant"late
(?)
v. t.
[L. exantlatus, p. p. of exantlare, exanclare, to endure.]
To exhaust or wear out.
[Obs.]
exantlated
Boyle.


word: Exantlation
definition:
Exantlation

Ex`ant*la"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. exantlation.]
Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exarate
definition:
Exarate

Ex"a*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exaratus, p. p. of exarare to plow up, to write; ex out + arare to plow.]
To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Exarch
definition:
Exarch

Ex"arch
(?)
n.
[L. exarchus, Gr. _; _; commander; _;,_;, out + _; to lead, rule: cf. F. exarque.]
A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.


word: Exarchate
definition:
Exarchate

Ex*ar"chate
(?)
n.
[LL. exarchatus, fr. L. exarchus: cf. F. exarchat.]
The office or the province of an exarch.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exarillate
definition:
Exarillate

Ex*ar"il*late
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + arillate.]
(Bot.)
Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.


word: Exarticulate
definition:
Exarticulate

Ex`ar*tic"u*late
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + articulate.]
(Zoöl.)
Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.


word: Exarticulation
definition:
Exarticulation

Ex`ar*tic`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
[Pref. ex- + articulation.]
Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.
Bailey.


word: Exasperate
definition:
Exasperate

Ex*as"per*ate
(?)
a.
[L. exasperatus, p. p. of exsasperare to roughen, exasperate; ex out (intens.) + asperare to make rough, asper rough. See Asperity.]
Exasperated; imbittered.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
Sets spinning.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Exasperate₂
definition:
Exasperate

Ex*as"per*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exsasperated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exasperating (?).]
1.
To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

To exsasperate them against the king of France.
Addison.

2.
To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

To exasperate the ways of death.
Sir T. Browne.


word: exasperating
definition:
exasperating

exasperating
adj.
1.
extremely annoying or displeasing.

Syn. -- annoying, infuriating, maddening, vexing.

2.
same as exacerbating.

Syn. -- aggravating, exacerbating.


word: Exasperation
definition:
Exasperation

Ex*as`per*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exasperatio: cf. F. exaspération.]
1.
The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits.
South.

2.
Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.
Exasperation
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Exaspidean
definition:
Exaspidean

Ex`as*pid"e*an
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; out + _;, _;, a shield.]
(Zoöl.)
Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.


word: Exaugurate
definition:
Exaugurate

Ex*au"gu*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exauguratus, p. p. of exaugurare to profane; ex out + augurari to act as an augur, fr. augur. ]
To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Exauguration
definition:
Exauguration

Ex*au`gu*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exauguratio desecration.]
The act of exaugurating; desecration.
[Obs.]


word: Exauthorate
definition:
Exauthorate

Ex*au"thor*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exauctoratus, p. p. of exauctorare to dismiss; ex out + auctorare to bind to something, to hire, fr. auctor. See Author.]
To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.
[Obs.]

Exauthorated for their unworthiness.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exauthoration
definition:
Exauthoration

Ex*au`thor*a"tion
(?)
n.
Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exauthorize
definition:
Exauthorize

Ex*au"thor*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. ex- + authorize.]
To deprive of uthority.
[Obs.]
Selden.


word: Exauthorize₂
definition:
Exauthorize

Ex*au"thor*ize
(?)
v. t.
[Pref. ex- + authorize.]
To deprive of authority.
[Obs.]
Selden.


word: Excalceate
definition:
Excalceate

Ex*cal"ce*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. excalceatus, p. p. of excalceare to unshoe. See Calceated.]
To deprive of shoes.
[Obs.]
Chambers.


word: Excalfaction
definition:
Excalfaction

Ex`cal*fac"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excalfactio.]
A heating or warming; calefaction.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Excalfactive
definition:
Excalfactive

Ex`cal*fac"tive
(?)
a.
[L. excalfacere to warm; ex out (intens.) + calfacere to warm.]
Serving to heat; warming.
[Obs.]
Cotgrave.


word: Excalibur
definition:
Excalibur

Ex*cal"i*bur
(?)
n.
The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.
[Written also Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn.]
Tennyson.


word: Excambie
definition:
Excambie

Excamb

{ Ex*camb" (?), Ex*cam"bie (?), }
v. t.
[LL. excambiare, excambire; L. ex out + cambire. See Change, and cf. Exchange.]
(Scots Law)
To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.


word: Excambium
definition:
Excambium

Excambion

{ &VerbarEx*cam"bi*on (?), &VerbarEx*cam"bi*um (?), }
n.
[LL. excambium. See Excamb.]
(Scots Law)
Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.


word: Excandescence
definition:
Excandescence

Ex`can*des"cence
(?)
n.
[L. excandescentia.]
1.
A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.
[R.]

2.
Violent anger; a growing angry.
[Obs.]
Blount.


word: Excandescent
definition:
Excandescent

Ex`can*des"cent
(?)
a.
[L. excandescens, p. pr. of excandescere to take fire, glow; ex out (intens.) + candescere to begin to glisten or glow, fr. candere. See Candid.]
White or glowing with heat.
[R.]
Ure.


word: Excantation
definition:
Excantation

Ex`can*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excantare to charm out. See Ex_;, and Chant.]
Disenchantment by a countercharm.
[Obs.]
Gayton.


word: Excarnate
definition:
Excarnate

Ex*car"nate
(?)
v. t.
[LL. excarnatus, p. p. of excarnare; L. ex out + caro, carnis, flesh.]
To deprive or clear of flesh.
Grew.


word: Excarnation
definition:
Excarnation

Ex`car*na"tion
(?)
n.
The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.


word: Excarnificate
definition:
Excarnificate

Ex*car"ni*fi*cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. ex out + LL. carnificatus, p. p. carnificare to carnify; cf. L. excarnificare to tear to pieces, torment. See Carnify.]
To clear of flesh; to excarnate.
Dr. H. More.


word: Excarnification
definition:
Excarnification

Ex*car`ni*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
Johnson.


word: Excavate
definition:
Excavate

Ex"ca*vate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excavated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excavating(?).]
[L. excavatus, p. p. of excavare to excavate; ex out + cavare to make hollow, cavus hollow. See Cave.]
1.
To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

2.
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

3.
(Engin.)
To dig out and remove, as earth.

The material excavated was usually sand.
E. L. Corthell.

Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.


word: Excavation
definition:
Excavation

Ex`ca*va"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excavatio: cf. F. excavation.]
1.
The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

2.
A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
excavation
Glover.

3.
(Engin.)
(a)
An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(b)
The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

The delivery of the excavations at a distance of 250 feet.
E. L. Corthell.


word: Excavator
definition:
Excavator

Ex"ca*va`tor
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.


word: Excecate
definition:
Excecate

Ex*ce"cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. excaecatus, p. p. of excaecare to blind; ex (intens.) + caecare to blind, caecus blind.]
To blind.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Excedent
definition:
Excedent

Ex*ced"ent
(?)
n.
[L. excedens, -entis, p. pr. of excedere. See Exceed, v. t.]
Excess.
[R.]


word: Exceed
definition:
Exceed

Ex*ceed"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exceeding.]
[L. excedere, excessum, to go away or beyond; ex out + cedere to go, to pass: cf. F. excéder. See Cede.]
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.

Name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days.
Shak.

Observes how much a chintz exceeds mohair.
Pope.


word: Exceed₂
definition:
Exceed

Ex*ceed"
v. i.
1.
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
exceed
Jer. Taylor.

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed.
Deut. xxv. 3.

2.
To be more or greater; to be paramount.
Shak.


word: Exceeding
definition:
Exceeding

Ex*ceed"ing
a.
More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless.
exceeding
Eph. ii. 7.
Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Exceeding₂
definition:
Exceeding

Ex*ceed"ing
adv.
In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.
[Archaic. It is not joined to verbs.]
exceeding
Keble.

His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow.
Mark ix. 3.

The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea.
Sir W. Raleigh.


word: Exceedingly
definition:
Exceedingly

Ex*ceed"ing*ly
(?)
adv.
To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.


word: Excel
definition:
Excel

Ex*cel"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excelled(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excelling.]
[L. excellere, excelsum; ex out + a root found in culmen height, top; cf. F. exceller. See Culminate, Column.]
1.
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Excelling others, these were great;
Thou, greater still, must these excel.
Prior.

I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Eccl. ii. 13.

2.
To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

She opened; but to shut
Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.
Milton.


word: Excel₂
definition:
Excel

Ex*cel"
v. i.
To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Gen. xlix. 4.

Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel.
Pope.


word: Excellence
definition:
Excellence

Ex"cel*lence
(?)
n.
[F. excellence, L. excellentia.]
1.
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Consider first that great
Or bright infers not excellence.
Milton.

2.
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

With every excellence refined.
Beattie.

3.
A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.

I do greet your excellence
With letters of commission from the king.
Shak.


word: Excellency
definition:
Excellency

Ex"cel*len*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Excellencies (_;).
1.
Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

His excellency is over Israel.
Ps. lxviii. 34.

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency.
Hooker.

2.
A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.


word: Excellent
definition:
Excellent

Ex"cel*lent
(?)
a.
[F. excellent, L. excellens, -entis, p. pr. of excellere. See Excel.]
1.
Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.

To love . . . 
What I see excellent in good or fair.
Milton.

2.
Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance.
[Obs. or Ironical]
excellent
Hume.

Their sorrows are most excellent.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Excellently
definition:
Excellently

Ex"cel*lent*ly
adv.
1.
In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

2.
In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness.
[Obs.]

When the whole heart is excellently sorry.
J. Fletcher.


word: Excelsior
definition:
Excelsior

Ex*cel"si*or
a.
[L., compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, p. p. of excellere. See Excel, v. t.]
More lofty; still higher; ever upward.


word: Excelsior₂
definition:
Excelsior

Ex*cel"si*or
n.
A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.


word: Excentrical
definition:
Excentrical

Excentric

{ Ex*cen"tric (?), Ex*cen"tric*al (?), }
a.
1.
Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.

2.
(Bot.)
One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
Gray.


word: Except
definition:
Except

Ex*cept"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excepting.]
[L. exceptus, p. p. of excipere to take or draw out, to except; ex out + capere to take: cf. F. excepter. See Capable.]
1.
To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.

Who never touched
The excepted tree.
Milton.

Wherein (if we only except the unfitness of the judge) all other things concurred.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

2.
To object to; to protest against.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Except₂
definition:
Except

Ex*cept"
v. i.
To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.

Except thou wilt except against my love.
Shak.


word: Except₃
definition:
Except

Ex*cept"
prep.
[Originally past participle, or verb in the imperative mode.]
With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.

God and his Son except,
Created thing naught valued he nor . . . shunned.
Milton.


word: Except₄
definition:
Except

Ex*cept"
(ĕk*sĕpt")
conj.
Unless; if it be not so that.

And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
Gen. xxxii. 26.

But yesterday you never opened lip,
Except, indeed, to drink.
Tennyson.

&hand_; As a conjunction unless has mostly taken the place of except.


word: Excepting
definition:
Excepting

Ex*cept"ing
prep. & conj.
participle
With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.
Excepting
Shak.

No one was ever yet made utterly miserable, excepting by himself.
Lubbock.


word: Exception
definition:
Exception

Ex*cep"tion
(ĕk*sĕp"shŭn)
n.
[L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
1.
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

2.
That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.

Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark,
Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.
Cowper.

Often with to.

That proud exception to all nature's laws.
Pope.

3.
(Law)
An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
Burrill.

4.
An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].
Bentley.

He . . . took exception to the place of their burial.
Bacon.

She takes exceptions at your person.
Shak.

Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.


word: Exceptionable
definition:
Exceptionable

Ex*cep"tion*a*ble
(ĕk*sĕp"shŭn*ȧ*b'l)
a.
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n.

This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem.
Addison.


word: Exceptional
definition:
Exceptional

Ex*cep"tion*al
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exceptionnel.]
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
Lyell.

This particular spot had exceptional advantages.
Jowett (Th. )


word: Exceptionless
definition:
Exceptionless

Ex*cep"tion*less
a.
Without exception.

A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification.
Bancroft.


word: Exceptious
definition:
Exceptious

Ex*cep"tious
(?)
a.
Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
[Obs.]

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious.
South.


word: Exceptive
definition:
Exceptive

Ex*cept"ive
(?)
a.
That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
I. Watts.

A particular and exceptive law.
Milton.


word: Exceptless
definition:
Exceptless

Ex*cept"less
a.
Not exceptional; usual.
[Obs.]

My general and exceptless rashness.
Shak.


word: Excerebration
definition:
Excerebration

Ex*cer`e*bra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excerebratus deprived of brains; ex out + cerebrum brain.]
The act of removing or beating out the brains.


word: Excern
definition:
Excern

Ex*cern"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excernere. See Excrete.]
To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
[R.]
Bacon.


word: Excernent
definition:
Excernent

Ex*cern"ent
(?)
a.
[See Excern.]
(Physiol.)
Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.


word: Excerp
definition:
Excerp

Ex*cerp"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excerpere, excerptum; ex out + carpere to pick, gather. See Harvest, and cf. Scarce, a.]
To pick out.
[Obs.]
Hales.


word: Excerpt
definition:
Excerpt

Ex*cerpt"
(ĕk*sẽrpt")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excerpted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excerpting.]
[From L. excerptus, p. p. See Excerp.]
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.

Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars.
Fuller.


word: Excerpt₂
definition:
Excerpt

Ex"cerpt
(ĕk"sẽrpt; 277)
n.
An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.


word: Excerption
definition:
Excerption

Ex*cerp"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excerptio.]
1.
The act of excerpting or selecting.
[R.]

2.
That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
[R.]

His excerptions out of the Fathers.
Fuller.


word: Excess
definition:
Excess

Ex*cess"
(?)
n.
[OE. exces, excess, ecstasy, L. excessus a going out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go beyond: cf. F. excès. See Exceed.]
1.
The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Shak.

That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy.
Walsh.

2.
An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.
Eph. v. 18.

Thy desire . . . leads to no excess
That reaches blame.
Milton.

3.
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

Spherical excess (Geom.), the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.


word: Excessive
definition:
Excessive

Ex*cess"ive
(ĕk*sĕs"ĭv)
a.
[Cf. F. excessif.]
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living.
Shak.


word: exchange
definition:
exchange

ex*change"
(ĕks*chānj")
n.
[OE. eschange, eschaunge, OF. eschange, fr. eschangier, F. échanger, to exchange; pref. ex- out + F. changer. See Change, and cf. Excamb.]
1.
The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

2.
The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.

3.
The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.
Shak.

4.
(Com.)
The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

&hand_; A in London is creditor to B in New York, and C in London owes D in New York a like sum. A in London draws a bill of exchange on B in New York; C in London purchases the bill, by which A receives his debt due from B in New York. C transmits the bill to D in New York, who receives the amount from B.

5.
(Law)
A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
Blackstone.

6.
The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business; also, the institution which sets regulations and maintains the physical facilities of such a place; as, the New York Stock Exchange; a commodity exchange. In this sense the word was at one time often contracted to 'change

Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. -- Bill of exchange. See under Bill. -- Exchange broker. See under Broker. -- Par of exchange, the established value of the coin or standard of value of one country when expressed in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for the sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be purchased there at or above par. -- Telephone exchange, a central office in which the wires of any two telephones or telephone stations may be connected to permit conversation.


word: Exchange
definition:
Exchange

Ex*change"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exchanged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exchanging (?).]
[Cf.OF. eschangier, F. échanger. See Exchange, n.]
1.
To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.

Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond.
Locke.

2.
To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.

And death for life exchanged foolishly.
Spenser.

To shift his being
Is to exchange one misery with another.
Shak.

3.
To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.

Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet.
Shak.


word: Exchange₂
definition:
Exchange

Ex*change"
v. i.
To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.


word: Exchangeability
definition:
Exchangeability

Ex*change`a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being exchangeable.

The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons.
Washington.


word: Exchangeable
definition:
Exchangeable

Ex*change"a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf.F. échangeable.]
1.
Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe.
Marshall.

2.
Available for making exchanges; ratable.
exchangeable
J. S. Mill.


word: Exchange editor
definition:
Exchange editor

Ex*change" ed"i*tor
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.


word: Exchequer
definition:
Exchequer

Ex*cheq"uer
(?)
n.
[OE. escheker, OF. eichekier, fr. LL. scaccarium. See Checker, Chess, Check.]
1.
One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
[Eng.]

&hand_; The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights of the crown against subjects; in the common law department, it administered justice in personal actions between subject and subject. A person proceeding against another in the revenue department was said to exchequer him. The judges of this court were one chief and four puisne barons, so styled. The Court of Exchequer Chamber sat as court of error in which the judgments of each of the superior courts of common law, in England, were subject to revision by the judges of the other two sitting collectively. Causes involving difficult questions of law were sometimes after argument, adjourned into this court from the other courts, for debate before judgment in the court below. Recent legislation in England (1880) has abolished the Court of Exchequer and the Court of Exchequer Chamber, as distinct tribunals, a single board of judiciary, the High Court of Justice, being established for the trial of all classes of civil cases.
Wharton.

2.
The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.

Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron. -- Chancellor of the exchequer. See under Chancellor. -- Exchequer bills or Exchequer bonds (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government, and bearing interest.


word: Exchequer₂
definition:
Exchequer

Ex*cheq"uer
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exchequered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exchequering.]
To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.


word: Excide
definition:
Excide

Ex*cide"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excidere, excisum; ex out + caedere to cut. See Concise, and cf. Excise to cut off.]
To cut off.
[R.]


word: Excipient
definition:
Excipient

Ex*cip"i*ent
(?)
a.
[L. excipients, -entis, p. pr. of exipere. See Except, v. t.]
Taking an exception.


word: Excipient₂
definition:
Excipient

Ex*cip"i*ent
n.
1.
An exceptor.
[R.]

2.
(Med., Pharmacy)
An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
Chambers.


word: Excipulum
definition:
Excipulum

Exciple

{ Ex"ci*ple (?), &VerbarEx*cip"u*lum (?), }
n.
[NL. excipulum, fr. L. excipere. See Except.]
(Bot.)
The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.


word: Excise
definition:
Excise

Ex*cise"
(?)
n.
[Apparently fr. L. excisum cut off, fr. excidere to cut out or off; ex out, off + caedere to cut; or, as the word was formerly written accise, fr. F. accise, LL.  accisia, as if fr. L. accidere, accisum, to cut into; ad + caedere to cut; but prob. transformed fr. OF. assise, LL. assisa, assisia, assize. See Assize, Concise.]
1.
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.

The English excise system corresponds to the internal revenue system in the United States.
Abbot.

An excise . . . is a fixed, absolute, and direct charge laid on merchandise, products, or commodities.
11 Allen's (Mass. ) Rpts.

2.
That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
[Eng.]


word: Excise₂
definition:
Excise

Ex*cise"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excising.]
1.
To lay or impose an excise upon.

2.
To impose upon; to overcharge.
[Prov. Eng.]


word: Excise₃
definition:
Excise

Ex*cise"
v. t.
[See Excide.]
To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.


word: Exciseman
definition:
Exciseman

Ex*cise"man
(?)
n.
pl. Excisemen (_;).
An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
Macaulay.


word: Excision
definition:
Excision

Ex*ci"sion
(?)
n.
[L. excisio: cf. F. excision. See Excide.]
1.
The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision.
Atterbury.

2.
(Eccl.)
The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.

3.
(Surg.)
The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
Dunglison.


word: Excitability
definition:
Excitability

Ex*cit"a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. excitabilité.]
1.
The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

2.
(Physiol.)
The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.


word: Excitable
definition:
Excitable

Ex*cit"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. excitabilis inciting: cf. F. excitable.]
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.


word: Excitant
definition:
Excitant

Ex*cit"ant
(?)
a.
[L. excitans, -antis, p. pr. of excitare: cf. F. excitant.]
Tending to excite; exciting.


word: Excitant₂
definition:
Excitant

Ex*cit"ant
n.
(Physiol.)
An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.


word: Excitate
definition:
Excitate

Ex*cit"ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. excitatus, p. p. of excitare. See Excite.]
To excite.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Excitation
definition:
Excitation

Ex`ci*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excitatio: cf. F. excitation.]
1.
The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Bacon.

2.
(Physiol.)
The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.


word: Excitative
definition:
Excitative

Ex*cit"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. excitatif.]
Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Barrow.


word: Excitatory
definition:
Excitatory

Ex*cit"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. excitatoire.]
Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.


word: Excite
definition:
Excite

Ex*cite"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excited; p. pr. & vb. n. exciting.]
[L. excitare; ex out + citare to move rapidly, to rouse: cf. OF. esciter, exciter, F. exciter. See Cite.]
1.
To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.

2.
(Physiol.)
To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
3.
(Elec.)
To energize (an electro-magnet); to produce a magnetic field in; as, to excite a dynamo.

4.
(Physics)
To raise to a higher energy level; -- used especially of atoms or molecules, or of electrons within atoms or molecules; as, absorption of a photon excites the cesium atom, which subsequently radiates the excess energy.


word: Exciteful
definition:
Exciteful

Ex*cite"ful
(?)
n.
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
Chapman.


word: Excitement
definition:
Excitement

Ex*cite"ment
(?)
n.
[Cf. OF. excitement, escitement.]
1.
The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

2.
That which excites or rouses; that which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive.

The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle.
Talfowrd.

3.
(Physiol.)
A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues.


word: Exciter
definition:
Exciter

Ex*cit"er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, excites.

Hope is the grand exciter of industry.
Dr. H. More.


word: Exciting
definition:
Exciting

Ex*cit"ing
a.
Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv.

Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.


word: Excito-motion
definition:
Excito-motion

Ex*ci`to-mo"tion
(?)
n.
(Physiol.)
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.


word: Excito-motory
definition:
Excito-motory

Ex*ci`to-mo"to*ry
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.


word: Excito-nutrient
definition:
Excito-nutrient

Ex*ci`to-nu"tri*ent
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.


word: Excito-secretory
definition:
Excito-secretory

Ex*ci`to-se*cre"to*ry
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.


word: Exclaim
definition:
Exclaim

Ex*claim"
(?)
v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Exclaimed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exclaiming.]
[L. exclamare, exclamatum; ex + clamare to cry out; cf. OF. exclamer. See Clam.]
To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; “The field is won!” he exclaimed.


word: Exclamation
definition:
Exclamation

Ex`cla*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exclamatio: cf. F. exclamation.]
1.
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.

Exclamations against abuses in the church.
Hooker.

Thus will I drown your exclamations.
Shak.

A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion.
Trench.

2.
(Rhet.)
A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.

3.
(Print.)
A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.


word: Exclamative
definition:
Exclamative

Ex*clam"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exclamatif.]
Exclamatory.
Earle.
Ex*clam"a*tive*ly, adv.


word: Exclamatory
definition:
Exclamatory

Ex*clam"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.
South.
Ex*clam"a*to*ti*ly (#), adv.


word: Exclave
definition:
Exclave

Ex*clave"
(?)
n.
[Formed fr. enclave by substitution of ex- for en-]
A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
[Recent.]

&hand_; The same territory is an enclave in respect to the surrounding country and an exclave with respect to the country to which it is politically attached.


word: Exclude
definition:
Exclude

Ex*clude"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Excluding.]
[L. excludere, exclusum; ex out + claudere to shut. See Close.]
1.
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.

And none but such, from mercy I exclude.
Milton.

2.
To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.

Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the  “three logical axioms,” so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: “Everything is either A or Not-A.” no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.


word: Exclusion
definition:
Exclusion

Ex*clu"sion
(?)
n.
[L. exclusio: cf. F. exclusion. See Exclude.]
1.
The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded.

His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss.
Milton.

The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland.
Hume.

2.
(Physiol.)
The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.

3.
Thing emitted.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exclusionist
definition:
Exclusionist

Ex*clu"sion*ist
n.
One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.


word: Exclusive
definition:
Exclusive

Ex*clu"sive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exclusif.]
1.
Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.

2.
Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.


word: Exclusive₂
definition:
Exclusive

Ex*clu"sive
n.
One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.


word: Exclusivism
definition:
Exclusivism

Ex*clu"siv*ism
(?)
n.
The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.


word: Exclusivist
definition:
Exclusivist

Ex*clu"siv*ist
n.
One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.

The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory.
Gladstone.


word: Excoct
definition:
Excoct

Ex*coct"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excoctus, p. p. of excoquere to excoct. See 3d Cook.]
To boil out; to produce by boiling.
[Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Excogitate
definition:
Excogitate

Ex*cog"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excogitated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.]
[L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.]
To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
Excogitate
Stirling.

This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Whewell.


word: Excogitation
definition:
Excogitation

Ex*cog`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation.]
The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.


word: Excommune
definition:
Excommune

Ex`com*mune"
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate.]
To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.
[Obs.]

Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth
Gayton.


word: Excommunicable
definition:
Excommunicable

Ex`com*mu"ni*ca*ble
(?)
a.
[See Excommunicate.]
Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
excommunicable
Bp. Hall.

What offenses are excommunicable ?
Kenle.


word: Excommunicate
definition:
Excommunicate

Ex"com*mu"ni*cate
(?)
a.
[L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
n. One excommunicated.

Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
Shak.


word: Excommunicate₂
definition:
Excommunicate

Ex`com*mu"ni*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excommunicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating (?).]
1.
To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

2.
To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
Miltin.


word: Excommunication
definition:
Excommunication

Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication.]
The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

&hand_; excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.


word: Excommunion
definition:
Excommunion

Ex`com*mun"ion
(?)
A shutting out from communion; excommunication.
[Obs.]

Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature.
Milton.


word: Excoriable
definition:
Excoriable

Ex*co"ri*a*ble
(?)
Capable of being excoriated.

 The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Excoriate
definition:
Excoriate

Ex*co"ri*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excoriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. excoriating (?).]
[L. excoriare; ex out + corium hide. cf. Scourge; see Cuirass.]
To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.


word: Excoriation
definition:
Excoriation

Ex*co`ri*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. excoriation.]
1.
The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.

2.
Stripping of possession; spoliation.
[Obs.]

A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort.
Howell.


word: Excorticate
definition:
Excorticate

Ex*cor"ti*cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark.]
To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
[Obs.]
Excorticate
Evelyn.


word: Excortication
definition:
Excortication

Ex*cor`ti*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. excortication.]
The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.


word: Excreable
definition:
Excreable

Ex"cre*a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. excreabilis, exscreabilis, fr. exscreare. See Excreate.]
Capable of being discharged by spitting.
[Obs.]
Swift.


word: Excreate
definition:
Excreate

Ex"cre*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. excreare, exsreare; ex out + screare to hawk.]
To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Excrement
definition:
Excrement

Ex"cre*ment
(?)
n.
[L. excrementum, fr. excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. excrément. See Excrete.]
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.


word: Excrement₂
definition:
Excrement

Ex"cre*ment
n.
[L. excrementum, fr. excrescere, excretum, to grow out. See Excrescence.]
An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
[Obs.]
excrements
Fuller.

Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts.
Bacon.


word: Excrementitious
definition:
Excrementitious

Excrementitial

{ Ex`cre*men*ti"tial (?), Ex`cre*men*ti"tious (?), }
a.
(Physiol.)
Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.


word: Excrementive
definition:
Excrementive

Ex`cre*men"tive
(?)
a.
Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
[R.]
excrementive
Felthman.


word: Excrescence
definition:
Excrescence

Ex*cres"cence
(?)
n.
[F. excrescence, excroissanse, L. excrescentia excrescences, neut. pl. of p. pr. of excrescere. See Excrescent.]
An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant.
Excrescences
Jer. Taylor.

The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy.
Addison.


word: Excrescent
definition:
Excrescent

Ex*cres"cent
(?)
a.
[L. excresens, -entis, p. pr. of excrescere to grow out ; ex out + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]
Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts.
Pope.

Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.


word: Excrescential
definition:
Excrescential

Ex`cres*cen"tial
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.
[R.]
Hawthorne.


word: Excrete
definition:
Excrete

Ex*crete"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excreted; p. pr. & vb. n. Excreting.]
[L. excretus, p. p. of excernere to sift out, discharge; ex out + cernere to sift, separate. See Crisis.]
To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
excreted
Hooper.


word: Excretin
definition:
Excretin

Ex"cre*tin
(?)
n.
[From Excrete.]
(physiol. Chem.)
A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.


word: Excretion
definition:
Excretion

Ex*cre"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. excrétion.]
1.
The act of excreting.

To promote secretion and excretion.
Pereira.

2.
That which is excreted; excrement.
Bacon.


word: Excretory
definition:
Excretory

Ex*cre"to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. excrétoire.]
Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.


word: Excruciate
definition:
Excruciate

Ex*cru"ci*ate
(?)
a.
[L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See Cruciate, Cross.]
Excruciated; tortured.

And here my heart long time excruciate.
Chapman.


word: Excruciate₂
definition:
Excruciate

Ex*cru"ci*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excruciated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating (?).]
To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.

Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.
Drayton.


word: Excruciating
definition:
Excruciating

Ex*cru"ci*a`ting
(?)
Torturing; racking.
Excruciating
V. Knox.
Excruciating
Bentley
Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.


word: Excruciation
definition:
Excruciation

Ex*cru`ci*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excruciatio.]
The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.
Feltham.


word: Excubation
definition:
Excubation

Ex`cu*ba"tion
(?)
n.
[L. excubatio, fr. excubare to lie out on guard; ex out on guard; ex out + cubare to lie down.]
A keeping watch.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Excubitorium
definition:
Excubitorium

Ex*cu`bi*to"ri*um
(?)
n.
[LL. excubitorium; ex out + cubare, cubitum, to lie.]
(Eccl. Antiq.)
A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.


word: Exculpate
definition:
Exculpate

Ex*cul"pate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exculpated (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Exculpating (_;).]
[L. ex out + culpatus, p. p. of culpare to find fault with, to blame, culpa fault. See Culpable.]
To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

He exculpated himself from being the author of the heroic epistle.
Mason.

I exculpate him further for his writing against me.
Milman.


word: exculpated
definition:
exculpated

exculpated
adj.
freed from any question of guilt; having suspicion of guilt eliminated.

Syn. -- absolved, cleared, exonerated, vindicated.


word: Exculpation
definition:
Exculpation

Ex`cul*pa"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. exculpatio.]
The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strong case in exculpation of themselves.
Southey.


word: Exculpatory
definition:
Exculpatory

Ex*cul"pa*to*ry
(?)
Clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt; excusing.
exculpatory
Johnson.


word: Excur
definition:
Excur

Ex*cur"
(?)
v. i.
[L. excurrere. See Excurrent.]
To run out or forth; to extend.
[Obs.]
Harvey.


word: Excurrent
definition:
Excurrent

Ex*cur"rent
(?)
a.
[L. excurrens, p. p. of excurrere, excursum, to run out; ex out + currere to run. See Current.]
1.
Running or flowing out
(Bot.)
Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.

2.
(Zoöl.)
Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.


word: Excursion
definition:
Excursion

Ex*cur"sion
(?)
[L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]
1.
A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.

Far on excursion toward the gates of hell.
Milton.

They would make excursions and waste the country.
Holland.

2.
A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

3.
A wandering from a subject; digression.

I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions.
Cowper.

4.
(Mach.)
Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]


word: Excursive
definition:
Excursive

Ex*cur"sive
(?)
a.
Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.

The course of excursive . . . understandings.
I. Taylor.


word: Excursus
definition:
Excursus

Ex*cur"sus
(?)
n.
[L., fr. excurrere, excursum. See Excurrent.]
A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.


word: Excusable
definition:
Excusable

Ex*cus"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. excusabilis: cf. F. excusable. See Excuse.]
That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
Ex*cus"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ex*cus"a*bly, adv.

The excusableness of my dissatisfaction.
Boyle.


word: Excusator
definition:
Excusator

Ex`cu*sa"tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.
[Obs.]
Hume.


word: Excusatory
definition:
Excusatory

Ex*cus"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.


word: Excuse
definition:
Excuse

Ex*cuse"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Excusing.]
[OE. escusen, cusen, OF. escuser, excuser, F. excuser, fr. L. excusare; ex out + causa cause, causari to plead. See Cause.]
1.
To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit.

A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law.
Abp. Sharp.

2.
To pardon, as a fault; to forgive entirely, or to admit to be little censurable, and to overlook; as, we excuse irregular conduct, when extraordinary circumstances appear to justify it.

I must excuse what can not be amended.
Shak.

3.
To regard with indulgence; to view leniently or to overlook; to pardon.

And in our own (excuse some courtly stains.)
No whiter page than Addison remains.
Pope.

4.
To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to excuse a forfeiture.

I pray thee have me excused.
xiv. 19.

5.
To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you?
2 Cor. xii. 19.


word: Excuse₂
definition:
Excuse

Ex*cuse"
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. excuse. See Excuse, v. t.]
1.
The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Pleading so wisely in excuse of it.
Shak.

2.
That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment.

Hence with denial vain and coy excuse.
Milton.

3.
That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.
excuse
Shak.

If eyes were made for seeing.
Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
Emerson.


word: Excuser
definition:
Excuser

Ex*cus"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
Swift.

2.
One who excuses or forgives another.
Shelton.


word: Excuss
definition:
Excuss

Ex*cuss"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excussus. p. p. of excutere to shake off; ex out, from + quatere to shake.  Cf. Quash.]
1.
To shake off; to discard.
[R.]

To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds.
Bp. Stillingfleet.

2.
To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.
[R.]

To take some pains in excusing some old monuments.
F. Junius (1654).

3.
To seize and detain by law, as goods.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.


word: Excussion
definition:
Excussion

Ex*cus"sion
(?)
n.
[L. excussio a shaking down; LL., a threshing of corn: cf. F. excussion.]
The act of excusing; seizure by law.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.


word: Exeat
definition:
Exeat

Ex"e*at
(?)
n.
[L., let him go forth.]
1.
A license for absence from a college or a religious house.
[Eng.]
Shipley.

2.
A permission which a bishop grants to a priest to go out of his diocese.
Wharton.


word: Execrable
definition:
Execrable

Ex"e*cra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. execrabilis, exsecrabilis: cf. F. exécrable. See Execrate.]
Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
Execrable
Hooker.


word: Execrate
definition:
Execrate

Ex"e*crate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Execrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Execrating (?).]
[L. execratus, exsecratus, p. p. of execrare, exsecrare, to execrate; ex out + sacer holy, sacred. See Sacred.]
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
execrate
Cowper.


word: Execration
definition:
Execration

Ex`e*cra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. execratio, exsecratio: cf. F. exécration.]
1.
The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations.
Shak.

2.
That which is execrated; a detested thing.

Ye shall be an execration and . . . a curse.
Jer. xlii. 18.


word: Execratory
definition:
Execratory

Ex"e*cra*to*ry
(?)
a.
Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory.
C. Kingsley.
n. A formulary of execrations.
L. Addison.


word: Executable
definition:
Executable

Ex"e*cu`ta*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.
[R.]


word: Executant
definition:
Executant

Ex*ec"u*tant
(?)
n.
One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

Great executants on the organ.
De Quincey.


word: Execute
definition:
Execute

Ex"e*cute
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Executed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Executing (?).]
[F. exécuter, L. executus, exsecutus, p. p. of exequi to follow to the end, pursue; ex out + sequi to follow. See Second, Sue to follow up, and cf. Exequy.]
1.
To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

Why delays
His hand to execute what his decree
Fixed on this day?
Milton.

2.
To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

3.
To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stipulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

4.
To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

5.
To put to death illegally; to kill.
[Obs.]
Shak.

6.
(Mus.)
To perform, as a piece of music or other feat of skill, whether on an instrument or with the voice, or in any other manner requiring physical activity; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly; to execute a coup; to execute a double play.


word: Execute₂
definition:
Execute

Ex"e*cute
v. i.
1.
To do one's work; to act one's part or purpose.
[R.]
Hayward.

2.
To perform musically.


word: executing
definition:
executing

ex"e*cut`ing
n.
putting a condemned person to death.

Syn. -- execution, capital punishment, death penalty.


word: Execution
definition:
Execution

Ex`e*cu"tion
(?)
n.
[F. exécution, L. executio, exsecutio.]
1.
The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

The excellence of the subject contributed much to the happiness of the execution.
Dryden.

2.
A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer; to grant a stay of execution.

A warrant for his execution.
Shak.

3.
The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.

The first quality of execution is truth.
Ruskin.

4.
The mode of performing any activity; as, the game plan was excellent, but its execution was filled with mistakes.

5.
(Law)
(a)
The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
(b)
A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
(c)
The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument, or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed, or a will.

6.
That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.

To do some fatal execution.
Shak.

7.
The act of sacking a town.
[Obs.]
Beau. & FL.


word: Executioner
definition:
Executioner

Ex`e*cu"tion*er
(?)
n.
1.
One who executes; an executer.
Bacon.

2.
One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.


word: Executive
definition:
Executive

Ex*ec"u*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf.F. exécutif.]
1.
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

&hand_; In government, executive is distinguished from legislative and judicial; legislative being applied to the organ or organs of government which make the laws; judicial, to that which interprets and applies the laws; executive, to that which carries them into effect or secures their due performance.

2.
of or pertaining to an executive{2} or to the group of executives within an organization; as, executive compensation increased more rapidly than wages in the 1980's; the executive suite.


word: Executive₂
definition:
Executive

Ex*ec"u*tive
n.
1.
An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

2.
a person who has administrative authority over an organization or division of an organization; a manager, supervisor or administrator at a high level within an organization; as, all executives of the company were given stock options


word: Executor
definition:
Executor

Ex*ec"u*tor
(?)
n.
[L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. exécuteur.  Cf. Executer.]
1.
One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.
Shak.

2.
An executioner.
[Obs.]

Delivering o'er to executors paw_;
The lazy, yawning drone.
Shak.

3.
(Law)
The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

&VerbarExecutor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.


word: Executory
definition:
Executory

Ex*ec"u*to*ry
(?)
a.
[LL. executorius, L. exsecutorius: cf.F. exécutoire.]
1.
Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.

The official and executory duties of government.
Burke.

2.
(Law)
Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract.
Blackstone.


word: Exedent
definition:
Exedent

Ex"e*dent
(?)
a.
[L. exedent, -entis, p. pr. of exedere. See Exesion.]
Eating out; consuming.
[R.]


word: Exedra
definition:
Exedra

Ex"e*dra
(ĕks"e̝*drȧ)
n.
pl. Exedræ (ĕks"e̝*drē).
[L., fr. Gr 'exe`dra; 'ex out + "e`dra seat.]
1.
(Class. Antiq.)
A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

2.
(Arch.)
(a)
The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.
(b)
Any out-of-door seat in stone, large enough for several persons; esp., one of curved form.


word: Exegesis
definition:
Exegesis

Ex`e*ge"sis
(?)
n.
pl. Exegeses (#).
[NL., fr.Gr. _;,fr. _; to explain, interpret; _; out + _; to guide, lead, akin, to _; to lead. See Agent.]
1.
Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

2.
(Math.)
The process of finding the roots of an equation.
[Obs.]


word: Exegetical
definition:
Exegetical

Exegetic

{ Ex`e*get"ic (?), Ex`e*get"ic*al (?), }
a.
[Gr. _;: cf. F.exégétique.]
Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.
Walker.
Ex`e*get"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Exegetist
definition:
Exegetist

Ex`e*ge"tist
(?)
n.
One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.


word: Exemplar
definition:
Exemplar

Ex*em"plar
(?)
n.
[L. exemplar, exemplum: cf. F. exemplaire. See Example, and cf. Examper, Sampler.]
1.
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.

Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit.
South.

2.
A copy of a book or writing.
[Obs.]
Udall.


word: Exemplar₂
definition:
Exemplar

Ex*em"plar
a.
Exemplary.
[Obs.]

The exemplar piety of the father of a family.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exemplarily
definition:
Exemplarily

Ex"em*pla*ri*ly
(?)
adv.
In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.

She is exemplarily loyal.
Howell.

Some he punisheth exemplarily.
Hakewill.


word: Exemplariness
definition:
Exemplariness

Ex"em*pla*ri*ness
n.
The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.


word: Exemplarity
definition:
Exemplarity

Ex`em*plar"i*ty
(_;)
n.
[Cf. LL. exemplaritas.]
Exemplariness.
[R.]

The exemplarity of Christ's life.
Abp. Sharp.


word: Exemplary
definition:
Exemplary

Ex"em*pla*ry
(?)
a.
[L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf. F. exemplaire. See Exemplar.]
1.
Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.

[Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary.
Bacon.

2.
Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.

3.
Illustrating as the proof of a thing.
Fuller.

Exemplary damages. (Law) See under Damage.


word: Exemplification
definition:
Exemplification

Ex*em`pli*fi*ca"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

2.
That which exemplifies; a case in point; example.

3.
(Law)
A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.


word: Exemplify
definition:
Exemplify

Ex*em"pli*fy
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exemplified (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exemplifying.]
[L. exemplum example + -fy: cf. LL. exemplificare to copy, serve as an example.]
1.
To show or illustrate by example.

He did but . . . exemplify the principles in which he had been brought up.
Cowper.

2.
To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
Holland.

3.
To prove or show by an attested copy.


word: Exempt
definition:
Exempt

Ex*empt"
(?)
a.
[F. exempt, L. exemptus, p. p. of eximere to take out, remove, free; ex out + emere to buy, take.  Cf. Exon, Redeem.]
1.
Cut off; set apart.
[Obs.]

Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry.
Shak.

2.
Extraordinary; exceptional.
[Obs.]
Chapman.

3.
Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service.

True nobility is exempt from fear.
Shak.

T is laid on all, not any one exempt.
Dryden.


word: Exempt₂
definition:
Exempt

Ex*empt"
n.
1.
One exempted or freed from duty; one not subject.

2.
One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an Exon.
[Eng.]


word: Exempt₃
definition:
Exempt

Ex*empt"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exempted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exempting.]
[F. exempter. See Exempt, a.]
1.
To remove; to set apart.
[Obs.]
Holland.

2.
To release or deliver from some liability which others are subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury service; to exempt from fear or pain.

Death
So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
We are by doom to pay.
Milton.


word: Exemption
definition:
Exemption

Ex*emp"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exemptio a removing: cf. F. exemption exemption.]
The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety, suffering, etc.


word: Exenterate
definition:
Exenterate

Ex*en"ter*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exenteratus, p. p. of exenterare; cf. Gr. _;; _; out + _; intestine.]
To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.
[R.]

Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians.
Hare.


word: Exequatur
definition:
Exequatur

Ex`e*qua"tur
(?)
n.
[L., 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. of exequi, exsequi, to perform, execute.]
1.
A written official recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

2.
Official recognition or permission.
Prescott.


word: Exequial
definition:
Exequial

Ex*e"qui*al
(?)
a.
[L. exequialis, exsequialis, fr. exsequiae exequies.]
Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.


word: Exequy
definition:
Exequy

Ex"e*quy
(?)
n.
pl. Exequies (#).
[L. exequiae, exsequiae, a funeral procession, fr. exsequi to follow out: cf. OF. exeques. See Exequte.]
A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen.
Shak.


word: Exercent
definition:
Exercent

Ex*er"cent
(?)
a.
[L. exercents, -entis, p. pr. of exercere. See Exercise.]
Practicing; professional.
[Obs.]
exercent
Ayliffe.


word: exercisable
definition:
exercisable

ex"er*ci`sa*ble
(?)
a.
That may be exercised, used, or exerted; as, the stock options are exercisable for only five years from the date of issue.


word: Exercise
definition:
Exercise

Ex"er*cise
(?)
n.
[F. exercice, L. exercitium, from exercere, exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive out of the inclosure; ex out + arcere to shut up, inclose. See Ark.]
1.
The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.

exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature.
Jefferson.

O we will walk this world,
Yoked in all exercise of noble end.
Tennyson.

2.
Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc.
exercise
Spenser.

An exercise of the eyes and memory.
Locke.

3.
Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback; to exercise on a treadmill or in  a gym.

The wise for cure on exercise depend.
Dryden.

4.
The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.

Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion.
Addison.

To draw him from his holy exercise.
Shak.

5.
That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition; arithmetic exercises.

The clumsy exercises of the European tourney.
Prescott.

He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565.
Brydges.

6.
That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

Patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.
Milton.

Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.


word: Exercise₂
definition:
Exercise

Ex"er*cise
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exercised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exercising (?).]
1.
To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.

Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
Acts xxiv. 16.

2.
To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops.

About him exercised heroic games
The unarmed youth.
Milton.

3.
To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.

Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope of end.
Milton.

4.
To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office.

I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
Jer. ix. 24.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
Ezek. xxii. 29.


word: Exercise₃
definition:
Exercise

Ex"er*cise
v. i.
To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.

I wear my trusty sword,
When I do exercise.
Cowper.


word: exerciser
definition:
exerciser

ex"er*ci`ser
(?)
n.
1.
One who exercises.

2.
one who supervises the exercise of animals, such as horses or dogs.

3.
a device used for exercising muscles; as, a thigh exerciser.


word: Exercisible
definition:
Exercisible

Ex"er*ci`si*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.


word: Exercitation
definition:
Exercitation

Ex*er`ci*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exercitatio, fr. exercitare, intense., fr. exercere to exercise: Cf. f. exercitation.]
exercise; practice; use.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: exercycle
definition:
exercycle

exercycle
n.
a stationary bike for exercising.

Syn. -- exercise bike, exercise bicycle.


word: Exergue
definition:
Exergue

Ex*ergue"
(?)
n.
[F., fr. Gr. _; out + _; work; lit., out work, i. e., accessory work. See Work.]
(Numis.)
The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
Fairholt.


word: Exert
definition:
Exert

Ex*ert"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exerting.]
[L. exertus, exsertus, p. p. of exerere, exserere, to thrust out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. Exsert.]
1.
To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
[Obs.]

So from the seas exerts his radiant head
The star by whom the lights of heaven are led.
Dryden.

2.
To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

3.
To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body.
South.

To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.


word: Exertion
definition:
Exertion

Ex*er"tion
(?)
n.
The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.


word: Exesion
definition:
Exesion

Ex*e"sion
(?)
n.
[L. exedere, exesum, to eat up; ex out + edere to eat.]
The act of eating out or through.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exestuate
definition:
Exestuate

Ex*es"tu*ate
(?)
v. i.
[L. exaestuatus,p. p. of exaestuare to boil up. See Estuate.]
To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
[Obs.]


word: Exeunt
definition:
Exeunt

Ex"e*unt
(?)
[L., 3d pers. pl. pres. of exire to go out.]
They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.


word: Exfetation
definition:
Exfetation

Ex`fe*ta"tion
(?)
n
[Pref. ex- + fetation.]
(Med.)
Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
Hoblyn.


word: Exfoliate
definition:
Exfoliate

Ex*fo"li*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Exfoliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exfoliating (?).]
[L. exfoliare to strip of leaves; ex out, from + folium leaf.]
1.
To separate and come off in scales or laminæ, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

2.
(Min.)
To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.


word: Exfoliation
definition:
Exfoliation

Ex*fo`li*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. exfoliation.]
The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.


word: Exfoliative
definition:
Exfoliative

Ex*fo"li*a"tive
(?)
a.
[Cf.F. exfoliatif.]
Having the power of causing exfoliation.
n. An exfoliative agent.
Wiseman.


word: Exhalation
definition:
Exhalation

Ex`ha*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exhalatio: cf. F. exhalaison, exhalation.]
1.
The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

2.
That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.

Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise
From hill or steaming lake.
Milton.

3.
A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
[archaic]

I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening.
Shak.


word: Exhale
definition:
Exhale

Ex*hale"
(ĕks*hāl" or ĕgz*āl")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exaled (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Exaling.]
[L. exhalare; ex out + halare to breathe; cf.F. exhaler.  Cf. Inhale.]
1.
To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia.

Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales.
Pope.

2.
To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor; as, the sun exhales the moisture of the earth.


word: Exhale₂
definition:
Exhale

Ex*hale"
v. i.
To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

Their inspiration exhaled in elegies.
Prescott.


word: Exhaust
definition:
Exhaust

Ex*haust"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting.]
[L. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump.]
1.
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

2.
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

3.
To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.

A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five.
Motley.

4.
To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.

5.
(Chem.)
To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.

Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.


word: Exhaust₂
definition:
Exhaust

Ex*haust"
a.
[L. exhaustus, p. p.]
1.
Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

2.
Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. -- Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it. -- Exhaust nozzle, Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle. -- Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser. Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. -- Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. -- Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. -- Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder.


word: Exhaust₃
definition:
Exhaust

Ex*haust"
n.
(Steam Engine)
1.
The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

2.
The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.


word: exhausted
definition:
exhausted

exhausted
adj.
1.
same as burned-out, 1.
[wns=1+3]

Syn. -- burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).

2.
used up; completely consumed.
[wns=2]
gone, expended, spent
3.
emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created.   Opposite of unexhausted.

Syn. -- exhausted, evacuated.


word: Exhaustibility
definition:
Exhaustibility

Ex*haust`i*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
Capability of being exhausted.

I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations.
J. S. Mill.


word: Exhaustible
definition:
Exhaustible

Ex*haust"i*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended.  Opposite of inexhaustible.
Johnson.


word: Exhaustion
definition:
Exhaustion

Ex*haus"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. exhaustion.]
1.
The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

2.
The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

3.
(Math.)
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

&hand_; The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus.


word: Exhaustive
definition:
Exhaustive

Ex*haust"ive
(?)
a.
Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.
Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.


word: Exheredate
definition:
Exheredate

Ex*her"e*date
(?)
v. t.
[L., exheredatus, p. p. of exheredare to disinherit; ex out + heres, heredis, heir.]
To disinherit.
[R.]
Huloet.


word: Exheredation
definition:
Exheredation

Ex*her`e*da"tion
(?)
n.
[L., exheredatio: cf. F. exhérédation.]
A disinheriting; disherison.
[R.]

Syn. -- exhereditation.


word: Exhereditation
definition:
Exhereditation

Ex`he*red`i*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[LL. exhereditare, exhereditatum, disinherit.]
A disinheriting; disherison.
[R.]
E. Waterhouse.

Syn. -- exheredation.


word: Exhibit
definition:
Exhibit

Ex*hib"it
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhibiting.]
[L. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere to hold forth, to tender, exhibit; ex out + habere to have or hold. See Habit.]
1.
To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.

Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body.
Pope.

2.
(Law)
To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.

He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl.
Clarendon.

3.
(Med.)
To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates. -- To exibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. [Obs.]


word: Exhibit₂
definition:
Exhibit

Ex*hib"it
n.
1.
Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

2.
(Law)
A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.


word: Exhibiter
definition:
Exhibiter

Ex*hib"it*er
(?)
n.
[Cf. Exhibitor.]
One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill.
Shak.


word: Exhibition
definition:
Exhibition

Ex`hi*bi"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exhibitio a delivering: cf. F. exhibition.]
1.
The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

2.
That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.

3.
Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension.
Specifically:
(Eng. Univ.)
Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars.

What maintenance he from his friends receives,
Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.
Shak.

I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests.
Tyndale.

4.
(Med.)
The act of administering a remedy.


word: Exhibitioner
definition:
Exhibitioner

Ex`hi*bi"tion*er
(?)
n.
(Eng. Univ.)
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.

A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital.
G. Eliot.


word: exhibitionist
definition:
exhibitionist

exhibitionist
n.
1.
a person with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals; -- usually a male.
[wns=1]

Syn. -- flasher.
2.
someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention.
[wns=2]

Syn. -- show-off.


word: exhibitionistic
definition:
exhibitionistic

exhibitionist

exhibitionist exhibitionistic
adj.
1.
compulsively attracting attention to oneself especially by boasting or exaggerated behavior.


word: Exhibitory
definition:
Exhibitory

Ex*hib"it*o*ry
(?)
a.
[L. exhibitorius relating to giving up: cf. F. exhibitoire exhibiting.]
Exhibiting; publicly showing.
J. Warton.


word: Exhilarant
definition:
Exhilarant

Ex*hil"a*rant
(?)
a.
[L. exhilarans. -antis, p. pr. See Exhilarate.]
Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.
n. That which exhilarates.


word: Exhilarate
definition:
Exhilarate

Ex*hil"a*rate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exhilarated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exilarating.]
[L. exhilaratus, p. p. of exhilarare to gladden; ex out + hilarare to make merry, hilaris merry, cheerful. See Hilarious.]
To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.


word: exhilarated
definition:
exhilarated

exhilarated
adj.
elated, in high spirits, and envigorated.  Opposite of dejected.

Syn. -- gladdened, happy.


word: Exhilarating
definition:
Exhilarating

Ex*hil"a*ra`ting
(?)
a.
That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.
Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.


word: Exhilaration
definition:
Exhilaration

Ex*hil`a*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L., exhilaratio.]
1.
The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

2.
The state of being enlivened or cheerful.

Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion.
Bacon.


word: Exhort
definition:
Exhort

Ex*hort"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exhorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhorting.]
[L. exhortari; ex out + hortari to incite, encourage; cf. F. exhorter. See Hortative.]
To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

Examples gross as earth exhort me.
Shak.

Let me exhort you to take care of yourself.
J. D. Forbes.


word: Exhort₂
definition:
Exhort

Ex*hort"
v. i.
To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

With many other words did he testify and exhort.
Acts ii. 40.


word: Exhortation
definition:
Exhortation

Ex`hor*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exhortatio: cf. F. exhortation.]
1.
The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

2.
Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.

I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
Shak.


word: Exhortative
definition:
Exhortative

Ex*hor"ta*tive
(?)
a.
[L. exhortativus: cf. F. exhortatif.]
Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.
Barrow.


word: Exhortatory
definition:
Exhortatory

Ex*hor"ta*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. exhortatorius: cf. F. exhortatoire.]
Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.
Holinshed.


word: Exhumation
definition:
Exhumation

Ex`hu*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. exhumatio, F. exhumation.]
The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.


word: Exhume
definition:
Exhume

Ex*hume"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exhumed (?) p. pr. & vb. n.. Exhuming.]
[LL. exhumare; L. ex out + humus ground, soil: cf. F. exhumer. See Humble.]
To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
Mantell.


word: Exigency
definition:
Exigency

Ex"i*gen*cy
(?)
n.
pl. Exigencies (#).
[LL. exigentia: cf. F. exigence.]
The state of being exigent; urgent or exacting want; pressing necessity or distress; need; a case demanding immediate action, supply, or remedy; as, an unforeseen exigency.
exigency
Ludlow.


word: Exigent
definition:
Exigent

Ex`i*gent
a.
[L. exigens, -entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See Exact.]
Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
exigent
Burke.


word: Exigent₂
definition:
Exigent

Ex"i*gent
n.
1.
Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
[Obs.]

Why do you cross me in this exigent?
Shak.

2.
(o. Eng. Law)
The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
Abbott.


word: Exigenter
definition:
Exigenter

Ex"i*gent*er
(?)
n.
(O. Eng. Law)
An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was to make out exigents. The office is now abolished.
Cowell.


word: Exigible
definition:
Exigible

Ex"i*gi*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exigible. See Exigent.]
That may be exacted; repairable.
[R.]
A. Smith.


word: Exiguity
definition:
Exiguity

Ex`i*gu"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. exiguitas, fr. exiguus small: cf. F. exiguité.]
Scantiness; smallness; thinness.
[R.]
Boyle.


word: Exiguous
definition:
Exiguous

Ex*ig"u*ous
(?)
a.
[L. exiguus.]
Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.
[R.]
Exiguous
Carlyle.
Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]


word: Exile
definition:
Exile

Ex"ile
(?)
n.
[OE. exil, fr. L. exilium, exsilium, fr. exsuil one who quits, or is banished from, his native soil; ex out + solum ground, land, soil, or perh. fr.the root of salire to leap, spring; cf. F. exil.  Cf. Sole of the foot, Saltation.]
1.
Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.

Let them be recalled from their exile.
Shak.

2.
The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.

Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay.
Shak.


word: Exile₂
definition:
Exile

Ex"ile
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling.]
To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.
Exiled
Tennyson.

Calling home our exiled friends abroad.
Shak.


word: Exilic
definition:
Exilic

Ex*il"ic
(?)
a.
Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.
Encyc. Dict.


word: Exilition
definition:
Exilition

Ex`i*li"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exsilire to spring from; ex out + salire to spring, leap.]
A sudden springing or leaping out.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exility
definition:
Exility

Ex*il"ity
(?)
n.
[L. exilitas: cf. F. exilité. See Exile, a.]
Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.
[R.]
Paley.


word: Eximious
definition:
Eximious

Ex*im"ious
(?)
a.
[L. eximius taken out, i. e. select, fr. eximere to take out. See Exempt.]
Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.
[Obs.]

The eximious and arcane science of physic.
Fuller.


word: Exinanite
definition:
Exinanite

Ex*in"a*nite
(?)
v. t.
[L. exinanitus, p. p. of exinanire; ex out (intens.) + inanire to make empty, inanis, empty.]
To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.
[Obs.]
Bp. Pearson.


word: Exinanition
definition:
Exinanition

Ex*in`a*ni"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exinanitio.]
An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.
[Obs.]

Fastings to the exinanition of spirits.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exist
definition:
Exist

Ex*ist"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.]
[L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]
1.
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

Who now, alas! no more is missed
Than if he never did exist.
Swift.

To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity.
South.

2.
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

3.
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.


word: Existence
definition:
Existence

Ex*ist"ence
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. existence.]
1.
The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.

The main object of our existence.
Lubbock.

2.
Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.

The existence therefore, of a phenomenon, is but another word for its being perceived, or for the inferred possibility of perceiving it.
J. S. Mill.

3.
That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.


word: Existent
definition:
Existent

Ex*ist"ent
(?)
a.
[L. existens, -entis, p. pr. of existere. See Exist.]
Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent.
Dryden.


word: Existential
definition:
Existential

Ex`is*ten"tial
(?)
a.
1.
Having existence.
[Archaic]
Bp. Barlow.

2.
of or pertaining to, or having the character of, existentialism.

3.
(Logic)
specifying actual existence, rather than only possibility; as, the existential operator.

Existentially as well as essentially intelligent.
Colerige.


word: existentialism
definition:
existentialism

ex`is*ten"tial*ism
(?)
n.
(Philosophy)
a philosophical theory or attitude having various interpretations, generally emphasising the existence of the individual as a unique agent with free will and responsibility for his or her own acts, though living in a universe devoid of any certain knowledge of right and wrong; from one's plight as a free agent with uncertain guidelines may arise feelings of anguish.   Existentialism is concerned more with concrete existence rather than abstract theories of essences; is contrasted with rationalism and empiricism; and is associated with Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre, as well as others.


word: Existimation
definition:
Existimation

Ex*is`ti*ma"tion
(?)
n.
[L. existimatio judgment, opinion, fr. existimare to estimate. See Estimate.]
Esteem; opinion; reputation.
[Obs.]
Steele.


word: existing
definition:
existing

existing
adj.
1.
having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran.  Opposite of nonexistent.
active, alive
extant, surviving
Also See: extant.

Syn. -- existent.

2.
Present.  Opposite of absent.

3.
Presently existing; as, the existing system.


word: Exit
definition:
Exit

Ex"it
(?)
[L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See Exeunt, Issue.]
He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

&hand_; The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors.


word: Exit₂
definition:
Exit

Ex"it
n.
[See 1st Exit.]
1.
The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

They have their exits and their entrances.
Shak.

2.
Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death.
Cowper.

3.
A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.

Forcing the water forth through its ordinary exits.
Woodward.


word: Exitious
definition:
Exitious

Exitial

{ Ex*i"tial (?), Ex*i"tious (?), }
a.
[L. exitialis, exitious, fr. exitium a going out, a going to naught, i. e., ruin, fr.exire to go out: cf. F. exitial.]
Destructive; fatal.
[Obs.]
Exitial
Harvey.


word: exit poll
definition:
exit poll

ex"it poll`
(?)
a survey poll taken by interviewing voters as they leave (exit) the polling place, to determine how they voted and for what reasons; -- it is usually taken by news media to learn at an early time (often before the balloting has finished) who the winners are, and sometimes the reasons for the voters' choices.


word: Ex libris
definition:
Ex libris

Ex` li"bris
(?)
[L. ex from + libris books.]
An inscription, label, or the like, in a book indicating its ownership; esp., a bookplate.


word: Exmoor
definition:
Exmoor

Ex"moor
(?)
n.
[From Exmoor, a district in Somersetshire and Devonshire.]
1.
One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

2.
A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.


word: Exo-
definition:
Exo-

Ex"o-
(?)
[Gr. _; out of, outside, fr. _; out. See Ex-.]
A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.


word: Exocardial
definition:
Exocardial

Exocardiac

{ Ex`o*car"di*ac (?), Ex`o*car"di*al (?), }
a.
[Exo- + Gr. kardi`a heart.]
(Anat.)
Situated or arising outside of the heart; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.


word: Exocarp
definition:
Exocarp

Ex"o*carp
(?)
n.
[Exo- + Gr. _; fruit.]
(Bot.)
The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.


word: Exoccipital
definition:
Exoccipital

Ex`oc*cip"i*tal
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + occipital.]
(Anat.)
Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.
n. The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.


word: Exocoetus
definition:
Exocoetus

Exocetus

&VerbarEx`o*ce"tus (? or ?), &VerbarEx`ocœ"tus
n.
[NL. exocetus, L. exocoetus a fish that sleeps on the shore, Gr. 'exw`koitos, lit., sleeping out; 'e`xw outside of + koi`th bed.]
(Zoöl.)
A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.


word: Exoculate
definition:
Exoculate

Ex*oc"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. exoculatus, p. p. of exoculare to exoculate; ex out + oculus an eye.]
To deprive of eyes.
[R.]
W. C. Hazlitt.


word: Exode
definition:
Exode

Ex"ode
(?)
n.
[L. exodium, Gr. _; (sc. _; song) fr. _; belonging to an exit, or to the finale of a tragedy, fr. _;: cf. F. exode. See Exodus.]
1.
Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
[Obs.]
L. Coleman. Bolingbroke.

2.
(Gr. Drama)
The final chorus; the catastrophe.

3.
(Rom. Antiq.)
An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.


word: Exodic
definition:
Exodic

Ex*od"ic
(?)
a.
[Gr. _; belonging to departure. See Exodus.]
(Physiol.)
Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.


word: exodontics
definition:
exodontics

exodontics
n.
the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth.

Syn. -- exodontia.


word: ex-officio
definition:
ex-officio

ex-officio
adj.
1.
by virtue of an office or position.
the head of the department served as an ex-officio member of the board


word: Exodus
definition:
Exodus

Ex"o*dus
(?)
n.
[L., the book of Exodus, Gr. _; a going or marching out; _; out + _; way, cf. Skr. ā-sad to approach.]
1.
A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.

2.
The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.


word: Ex officio
definition:
Ex officio

Ex` of*fi"ci*o
(?)
pl. Ex officiis (#).
[L.]
From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.


word: Exogamous
definition:
Exogamous

Ex*og"a*mous
(?)
a.
[Exo- + Gr. _; marriage.]
Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.


word: Exogamy
definition:
Exogamy

Ex*og"a*my
(?)
n.
The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
Lubbock.


word: Exogen
definition:
Exogen

Ex"o*gen
(?)
n.
[Exo- + -gen: cf. F. exogène.]
(Bot.)
A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl.  Cf. Endogen.
Gray.


word: exogenous
definition:
exogenous

ex*og"e*nous
(?)
a.
1.
(Bot.)
derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.

Syn. -- exogenetic.

2.
(Bot.)
Growing by addition to the exterior; growing by addition of a new external layer of cells on the surface just beneath the bark; -- of plants.

3.
(Anat.)
Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
Owen.

4.
(Med.)
caused by factors from outside the body, rather than from an abnormality of internal functions; -- of illness.

5.
(Biol., Biochem.)
not synthesized within the organism; absorbed or assimilated from outside the organism.

Exogenous aneurism (Med.), an aneurism which is produced by causes acting from without, as from injury.


word: Exogyra
definition:
Exogyra

Ex`o*gy"ra
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _; out, outside + _; circle.]
(Paleon.)
A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.


word: Exolete
definition:
Exolete

Ex"o*lete
(?)
a.
[L. exoletus, p. p. of exolescere to grow out, grow out of use; ex out + olescere to grow.]
Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.
[Obs.]


word: Exolution
definition:
Exolution

Ex`o*lu"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exolutio a release. See Exolve.]
See Exsolution.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exon
definition:
Exon

Ex"on
(?)
n.
[NL., from E. Exe (Celt. uisge water) the name of a river.]
A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.


word: Exon₂
definition:
Exon

Ex"on
n.
[F. expect an under officer.]
An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.
[Eng.]


word: Exonerate
definition:
Exonerate

Ex*on"er*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exonerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exonerating (?).]
[L. exoneratus, p. p. of exonerare to free from a burden; ex out, from onerare to load, onus load. See Onerous.]
1.
To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
[Obs.]

All exonerate themselves into one common duct.
Ray.

2.
To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
Burke.

3.
To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.


word: exonerated
definition:
exonerated

exonerated
adj.
same as exculpated.

Syn. -- absolved, cleared, exculpated, vindicated.


word: Exoneration
definition:
Exoneration

Ex*on`er*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exoneratio: cf. F. Exonération.]
The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.


word: Exophthalmia
definition:
Exophthalmia

Ex`oph*thal"mi*a
(?)
n.
[Nl.,fr. Gr. _; with prominent eyes; _; out + _; the eye.]
(Med.)
The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.


word: Exophthalmic
definition:
Exophthalmic

Ex`oph*thal"mic
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.

Exophthalmic golter. Same as Rasedow's disease.


word: Exophthalmus
definition:
Exophthalmus

Exophthalmos

&VerbarEx`oph*thal"mos (?), &VerbarEx`oph*thal"mus (_;)
n.
[NL.]
(Med.)
Same as Exophthalmia.

Syn. -- exophthalmus, exophthalmy.


word: Exoplasm
definition:
Exoplasm

Ex"o*plasm
(?)
n.
[Exo- + Gr. _; from, fr. _; to mold.]
(Biol.)
See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.


word: Exopodite
definition:
Exopodite

Ex*op"o*dite
(?)
n.
[Exo- + Gr. _; , foot.]
(Zoöl.)
The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.


word: Exoptile
definition:
Exoptile

Ex*op"tile
(?)
n.
[F., fr.Gr. _; without + _; feather, plumage.]
(Bot.)
A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.


word: Exorable
definition:
Exorable

Ex"o*ra*ble
(?)
a.
[L. exorabilis: cf. F. exorable. See Exorate.]
Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.
Milton.


word: Exorate
definition:
Exorate

Ex"o*rate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exoratus, p. p. of exorare to gain by entreaty; ex out, from + orare to pay.]
To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Exorbitancy
definition:
Exorbitancy

Exorbitance

{ Ex*or"bi*tance (?), Ex*or"bi*tan*cy (?), }
n.
A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.
exorbitancies
Dryden.

The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
Bp. Hall.


word: Exorbitant
definition:
Exorbitant

Ex*or"bi*tant
(?)
a.
[L. exorbitans, -antis, p. pr. of exorbitare to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See Orbit.]
1.
Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.

Foul exorbitant desires.
Milton.

2.
Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.

The Jews . . . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for.
Hooker.


word: Exorbitate
definition:
Exorbitate

Ex*or"bi*tate
(?)
v. i.
[L.exorbitatus, p. p. of exorbitare. See Exorbitant.]
To go out of the track; to deviate.
[Obs.]
Bentley.


word: Exorcise
definition:
Exorcise

Ex"or*cise
(ĕks"&obreve_;r*sīz)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exorcised (-sīzd); p. pr. & vb. n. Exorcising (-sī`zĭng).]
[L. exorcizare, Gr. 'exorki`zein; 'ex out + "orki`zein to make one swear, bind by an oath, fr. "o`rkos oath: cf. F. exorciser.]
1.
To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.

He impudently excorciseth devils in the church.
Prynne.

2.
To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.

Exorcise the beds and cross the walls.
Dryden.

Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am.
Spectator.


word: Exorcism
definition:
Exorcism

Ex"or*cism
(-sĭz'm)
n.
[L. exorcismus, Gr. 'exorkizmo`s; cf. F. exorcisme.]
1.
The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

2.
Conjuration for raising spirits.
[R.]
Shak.


word: Exorcist
definition:
Exorcist

Ex"or*cist
(-sĭst)
n.
[L. exorcista, Gr. 'exorkisth`s: cf. F. exorciste.]
1.
One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists.
Acts xix. 13.

2.
A conjurer who can raise spirits.
[R.]

Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up
My mortified spirit.
Shak.


word: Exordial
definition:
Exordial

Ex*or"di*al
(ĕgz*ôr"dĭ*al)
a.
Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

The exordial paragraph of the second epistle.
I. Taylor.


word: Exordium
definition:
Exordium

Ex*or"di*um
(-ŭm)
n.
pl. E. Exordiums (-ŭmz), L. Exordia (-ȧ).
[L. fr. exordiri to begin a web, lay a warp, begin; ex out + ordiri to begin a web, begin; akin to E. order. See Order.]
A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.
exordium
Jer. Taylor.
exordiums
Addison.


word: Exorhiza
definition:
Exorhiza

Ex`o*rhi"za
(ĕks`o̝*rī"zȧ)
n.
pl. Exorhizæ (-zē).
[NL. fr. Gr. 'e`xw outside + 'ri`za root.]
(Bot.)
A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.
Gray.


word: Exorhizous
definition:
Exorhizous

Exorhizal

{ Ex`o*rhi"zal (?), Ex`o*rhi`zous (?), }
a.
(Bot.)
Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.


word: Exornation
definition:
Exornation

Ex`or*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exornatio, fr. exornare. See Ornate.]
Ornament; decoration; embellishment.
[Obs.]

Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect.
Burton.


word: Exortive
definition:
Exortive

Ex*or`tive
(?)
a.
[L. exortivus, fr. exortus a coming forth, rising; ex out + orivi to rise, come forth.]
Rising; relating to the east.
[R.]


word: Exosculate
definition:
Exosculate

Ex*os"cu*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. exosculatus, p. p. of exosculari to kiss. See Osculate.]
To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.
[Obs.]


word: Exoskeleton
definition:
Exoskeleton

Ex`o*skel"e*ton
(?)
n.
[Exo- + skeleton]
(Anat.)
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.


word: Exosmose
definition:
Exosmose

Ex"os*mose`
(?)
n.
[Exo+osmose: cf. F. ezosmose.]
(Physics)
The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.


word: Exospore
definition:
Exospore

Ex`o*spore
(?)
n.
[Exo + spore.]
(Biol.)
The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.


word: Exossate
definition:
Exossate

Ex*os"sate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exossatus, p. p. of exossare to bone , fr. exos without bones; ex out + os, ossis, bone.]
To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Exostome
definition:
Exostome

Ex"o*stome
(?)
n.
[Exo- + Gr. _; mouth :cf. F. exostome.]
(Bot.)
The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.


word: Exostosis
definition:
Exostosis

Ex`os*to"sis
(?)
n.
[NL., fr. Gr. _;; _; out + _; bone: cf. F _; exostose.]
1.
(Med.)
Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.
Coxe.

2.
(Bot.)
A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.


word: Exoterical
definition:
Exoterical

Exoteric

{ Ex`o*ter"ic (?), Ex`o*ter"ic*al (?) }
a.
[L. exotericus, Gr. _; fr. _; out: cf. F. exotérique. See Ex-]
External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.

The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine.
De Quincey.


word: Exoterics
definition:
Exoterics

Ex`o*ter`ics
(?)
n. pl.
(Philos.)
The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.


word: Exotery
definition:
Exotery

Ex"o*ter*y
(?)
n.
pl. Exoteries (-_;).
That which is obvious, public, or common.

Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar.
A. Tucker.


word: Exotheca
definition:
Exotheca

Ex`o*the"ca
(?)
n.
[Nl., fr. Gr. 'e`xw outside + _; a case, box.]
(Zoöl.)
The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costæ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.


word: Exothermic
definition:
Exothermic

Ex`o*ther"mic
(?)
a.
[Pref. exo- + thermic.]
(Chem.)
Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.


word: Exotic
definition:
Exotic

Ex*ot"ic
(?)
a.
[L. exoticus, Gr. _; fr. 'e`xw outside: cf. F. exotique. See Exoteric.]
Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

Nothing was so splendid and exotic as the ambassador.
Evelyn.


word: Exotic₂
definition:
Exotic

Ex*ot"ic
(?)
n.
Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call exotics.
Addison.


word: Exoticism
definition:
Exoticism

Ex*ot"i*cism
(?)
n.
The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.


word: Expand
definition:
Expand

Ex*pand"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expanding.]
[L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to spread out, to throw open; perh. akin to E. patent.  Cf. Spawn.]
1.
To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
Milton.

2.
To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

3.
(Math.)
To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.


word: Expand₂
definition:
Expand

Ex*pand"
v. i.
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
Dryden.


word: expandable
definition:
expandable

expandable
adj.
able to expand or to be expanded.

Syn. -- expandible, expansible, expansile.


word: expanded
definition:
expanded

expanded
adj.
increased in extent or size or bulk or scope.  Opposite of contracted.
blown-up, enlarged
dilated
distended, swollen
inflated

2.
(Printnig)
wider than usual for a particular height; -- of printers' type.  Contrasted with condensed.

Syn. -- extended.


word: Expander
definition:
Expander

Ex*pand"er
(?)
n.
Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.


word: Expanding
definition:
Expanding

Ex*pand"ing
a.
That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.


word: Expanse
definition:
Expanse

Ex*panse"
(?)
n.
[From L. expansus, p. p. of expandere. See Expand.]
That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
expanse
Savage.

Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven.
Milton.

The smooth expanse of crystal lakes.
Pope.


word: Expanse₂
definition:
Expanse

Ex*panse"
v. t.
To expand.
[Obs.]

That lies expansed unto the eyes of all.
Sir. T. Browne.


word: Expansibility
definition:
Expansibility

Ex*pan`si*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.


word: Expansible
definition:
Expansible

Ex*pan"si*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. expansible.]
Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight.
Grew.


word: Expansile
definition:
Expansile

Ex*pan"sile
(?)
a.
Expansible.

Ether and alcohol are more expansile than water.
Brande & C.


word: Expansion
definition:
Expansion

Ex*pan"sion
(?)
n.
[L. expansio: cf. F. expansion.]
1.
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

2.
That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.

The starred expansion of the skies.
Beattie.

3.
Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.

Lost in expansion, void and infinite.
Blackmore.

4.
(Economics & Commmerce)
an increase in the production of goods and services over time, and in the volume of business transactions, generally associated with an increase in employment and an increase in the money supply.  Opposite of contraction.

Syn. -- economic expansion.
5.
(Math.)
The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.

6.
(Steam Engine)
The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

7.
(Nav. Arch.)
The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

&hand_; Expansion is also used adjectively, as in expansion joint, expansion gear, etc.

8.
an enlarged or extended version of something, such as a writing or discourse; as, the journal article is an expansion of the lecture she gave.

9.
an expansion joint.  See below.
[Colloq. or jargon]

Expansion curve, a curve the coördinates of which show the relation between the pressure and volume of expanding gas or vapor; esp. (Steam engine), that part of an indicator diagram which shows the declining pressure of the steam as it expands in the cylinder. -- Expansion gear (Steam Engine). a cut-off gear. See Illust. of Link motion. -- Automatic expansion gear or Automatic cut-off, one that is regulated by the governor, and varies the supply of steam to the engine with the demand for power. -- Fixed expansion gear, or Fixed cut-off, one that always operates at the same fixed point of the stroke. -- Expansion joint, or Expansion coupling (Mech. & Engin.), a yielding joint or coupling for so uniting parts of a machine or structure that expansion, as by heat, is prevented from causing injurious strains; as: (a) A slide or set of rollers, at the end of bridge truss, to support it but allow end play. (b) A telescopic joint in a steam pipe, to permit one part of the pipe to slide within the other. (c) A clamp for holding a locomotive frame to the boiler while allowing lengthwise motion. (d) a strip of compressible material placed at intervals between blocks of poured concrete, as in roads or sidewalks. -- Expansion valve (Steam Engine), a cut-off valve, to shut off steam from the cylinder before the end of each stroke.


word: Expansive
definition:
Expansive

Ex*pan"sive
(ĕks*păn"sĭv)
a.
[Cf. F. expansif.]
1.
Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
[wns=1]

A more expansive and generous compassion.
Eustace.

His forehead was broad and expansive.
Prescott.
2.
causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.

3.
of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of the mountains.

4.
friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or discourse; -- of people; as, wine made the guest expansive.
[wns=4]

Syn. -- effusive, talkative.

5.
characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.
[wns=3]


word: expansiveness
definition:
expansiveness

expansiveness
n.
1.
a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed.

2.
a friendly open trait of a talkative person.

Syn. -- effusiveness.


word: expansivity
definition:
expansivity

expansivity
n.
1.
the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure.

Syn. -- coefficient of expansion.


word: Ex parte
definition:
Ex parte

Ex` par"te
(?)
[L. See Ex-, and Part.]
Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement.

Ex parte application, one made without notice or opportunity to oppose. -- Ex parte council, one that assembles at the request of only one of the parties in dispute. -- Ex parte hearing or Ex parte evidence (Law), that which is had or taken by one side or party in the absence of the other.  Hearings before grand juries, and affidavits, are ex parte. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.


word: Expatiate
definition:
Expatiate

Ex*pa"ti*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Expatiated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expariating (?).]
[L. expatiatus, exspatiatus, p. p. of expatiari, exspatiari, to expatiate; ex out + spatiari to walk about spread out, fr. spatium space. See Space.]
1.
To range at large, or without restraint.

Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
Pope.

2.
To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
Addison.


word: Expatiate₂
definition:
Expatiate

Ex*pa"ti*ate
v. t.
To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.

Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself.
Dryden.


word: Expatriate
definition:
Expatriate

Ex*pa"tri*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expatriated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating (?).]
[LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot.]
1.
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

The expatriated landed interest of France.
Burke.

2.
Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.


word: Expatriation
definition:
Expatriation

Ex*pa`tri*a"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. expatriation.]
The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls.
Palfrey.


word: Expect
definition:
Expect

Ex*pect"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expected; p. pr. & vb. n. Expecting.]
[L. expectatum, to look out for, await, expect; ex + out spectare to look at. See Spectacle.]
1.
To wait for; to await.
[Obs.]

Let's in, and there expect their coming.
Shak.

2.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.
expect
Shak.
Expecting
Shak.

The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day.
Macaulay.


word: Expectable
definition:
Expectable

Ex*pect"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. expectabilis.]
That may be expected or looked for.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Expectancy
definition:
Expectancy

Expectance

{ Ex*pect"ance (?), Ex*pect"an*cy (?), }
n.
1.
The act of expecting; expectation.
Milton.

2.
That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.

The expectancy and rose of the fair state.
Shak.

Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.


word: Expectant
definition:
Expectant

Ex*pect"ant
(?)
a.
[L.expectans, exspectans, p. pr. of expectare, exspectare: cf. F. expectant.]
Waiting in expectation; looking for
(Med.)
waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.


word: Expectant₂
definition:
Expectant

Ex*pect"ant
n.
One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

An expectant of future glory.
South.

Those who had employments, or were expectants.
Swift.


word: Expectation
definition:
Expectation

Ex`pec*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expectio. exspectio: cf. F. expectation.]
1.
The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
expectation
Tennyson.

My soul, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation is from him.
Ps. lxii. 5.

2.
That which is expected or looked for.

Why our great expectation should be called
The seed of woman.
Milton.

3.
The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.

His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe.
Prescott.

By all men's eyes a youth of expectation.
Otway.

4.
The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

5.
(Med.)
The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.


word: Expectative
definition:
Expectative

Ex*pect"a*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. expectatif.]
Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.


word: Expectative₂
definition:
Expectative

Ex*pect"a*tive
n.
[F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.]
Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.
Milman.


word: Expectorant
definition:
Expectorant

Ex*pec"to*rant
(?)
a.
[L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant.]
(Med.)
Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
n. An expectorant medicine.


word: Expectorate
definition:
Expectorate

Ex*pec"to*rate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expectorated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating (?).]
[L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral.]
To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.


word: Expectorate₂
definition:
Expectorate

Ex*pec"to*rate
v. i.
To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.


word: Expectoration
definition:
Expectoration

Ex*pec`to*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. expectoration.]
1.
The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

2.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.


word: Expediate
definition:
Expediate

Ex*pe"di*ate
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. F. expédier. See Expedite.]
To hasten; to expedite.
[Obs.]
expediate
Sir E. Sandys.


word: Expediency
definition:
Expediency

Expedience

{ Ex*pe"di*ence (?), Ex*pe"di*en*cy (?), }
n.
1.
The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle.

Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
Cogan.

To determine concerning the expedience of action.
Sharp.

Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
Whately.

2.
Expedition; haste; dispatch.
[Obs.]

Making hither with all due expedience.
Shak.

3.
An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
[Obs.]

Forwarding this dear expedience.
Shak.


word: Expedient
definition:
Expedient

Ex*pe"di*ent
(?)
a.
[L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. expédient. See Expedite.]
1.
Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right or principled.

It is expedient for you that I go away.
John xvi. 7.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.
Whately.

2.
Quick; expeditious.
[Obs.]

His marches are expedient to this town.
Shak.


word: Expedient₂
definition:
Expedient

Ex*pe"di*ent
n.
1.
That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

What sure expedient than shall Juno find,
To calm her fears and ease her boding mind?
Philips.

2.
Means devised in an exigency; shift.


word: Expediential
definition:
Expediential

Ex*pe`di*en"tial
(?)
Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.
expediential
Hare.
Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv. Fitzed. Hall


word: Expediently
definition:
Expediently

Ex*pe"di*ent*ly
(?)
adv.
1.
In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

2.
With expedition; quickly.
[Obs.]


word: Expediment
definition:
Expediment

Ex*ped"i*ment
(?)
n.
An expedient.
[Obs.]

A like expediment to remove discontent.
Barrow.


word: Expeditate
definition:
Expeditate

Ex*ped"i*tate
(?)
v. t.
[LL. expeditatus, p. p. of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot.]
(Eng. Forest Laws)
To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.  See also declaw.


word: Expedite
definition:
Expedite

Ex"pe*dite
(?)
a.
[L. expeditus, p. p. of expedire to free one caught by the foot, to extricate, set free, bring forward, make ready; ex out + pes, prdis, t. See Foot.]
1.
Free of impediment; unimpeded.

To make the way plain and expedite.
Hooker.

2.
Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation.
Tollotson.

Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
Locke.


word: Expedite₂
definition:
Expedite

Ex"pe*dite
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expedited (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expediting (?).]
1.
To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

To expedite your glorious march.
Milton.

2.
To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

Such charters be expedited of course.
Bacon.


word: Expedition
definition:
Expedition

Ex`pe*di"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.]
1.
The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

With winged expedition

Swift as the lightning glance.  _;

2.
A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Putting it straight in expedition. _;

3.
An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.

The expedition miserably failed.
Prescott.

Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
J. C. Fremont.


word: Expeditionary
definition:
Expeditionary

Ex`pe*di"tion*a*ry
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.


word: Expeditious
definition:
Expeditious

Ex`pe*di"tious
(?)
a.
Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.
Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.


word: Expel
definition:
Expel

Ex*pel"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expelled (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.]
[L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See Pulse a beat.]
1.
To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house?
Judg. xi. 7.

2.
To drive away from one's country; to banish.

Forewasted all their land, and them expelled.
Spenser.

He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land.
Josh. xxiii. 5.

3.
To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

4.
To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
expel
Shak.

5.
To discharge; to shoot.
[Obs.]

Then he another and another [shaft] did expel.
Spenser.


word: expelling
definition:
expelling

expelling
n.
any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

Syn. -- discharge, emission.


word: Expend
definition:
Expend

Ex*pend"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.]
[L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See Poise, and cf. Spend.]
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

If my death might make this island happy . . . 
I would expend it with all willingness.
Shak.


word: Expend₂
definition:
Expend

Ex*pend"
v. i.
1.
To be laid out, used, or consumed.

2.
To pay out or disburse money.

They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend.
Macaulay


word: expended
definition:
expended

expended
adj.
nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.

Syn. -- gone, spent.


word: Expenditor
definition:
Expenditor

Ex*pend"i*tor
(?)
n.
[LL.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.
Mozley & W.


word: Expenditure
definition:
Expenditure

Ex*pend"iture
(?)
n.
1.
The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest.
Burke.

2.
That which is expended or paid out; expense.

The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country.
A. Hamilton.


word: Expense
definition:
Expense

Ex*pense"
(?)
n.
[L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See Expend.]
1.
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Husband nature's riches from expense.
Shak.

2.
That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

Courting popularity at his party's expense.
Brougham.

3.
Loss.
[Obs.]
Shak.

And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.
Spenser.

Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.


word: Expensefull
definition:
Expensefull

Ex*pense"full
(?)
a.
Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
[R.]
Sir H. Wotton.
Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n. [R.]


word: Expensive
definition:
Expensive

Ex*pen"sive
(?)
a.
1.
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

War is expensive, and peace desirable.
Burke.

2.
Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish.
[R.]

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.
Sprat.

The idle and expensive are dangerous.
Sir W. Temple.


word: Experience
definition:
Experience

Ex*pe"ri*ence
(ĕks*pē"rĭ*ens)
n.
[F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
1.
Trial, as a test or experiment.
[Obs.]

She caused him to make experience
Upon wild beasts.
Spenser.

2.
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
experiences
Shak.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
P. Henry

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Coleridge.

When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.
Holland.

Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
Sharp.

3.
An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.
Locke.

Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment.
Sir J. Herschel.


word: Experience₂
definition:
Experience

Ex*pe"ri*ence
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Experienced (ĕks*pē"rĭ*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing (ĕks*pē"rĭ*en*sĭng).]
1.
To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India.
Thirwall.

2.
To exercise; to train by practice.

The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare.
Harte.

To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of religious truth.


word: experienced
definition:
experienced

ex*pe"ri*enced
(ĕks*pē"rĭ*enst)
p. p. & a.
Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

The ablest and most experienced statesmen.
Bancroft.


word: Experiencer
definition:
Experiencer

Ex*pe"ri*en*cer
(-en-s?r)
n.
1.
One who experiences.

2.
An experimenter.
[Obs.]
Sir. K. Digby.


word: Experience table
definition:
Experience table

Ex*pe"ri*ence ta"ble
(Life Insurance)
A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.


word: Experient
definition:
Experient

Ex*pe"ri*ent
(ĕks*pē"rĭ*ent)
a.
Experienced.
[Obs.]

The prince now ripe and full experient.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Experiential
definition:
Experiential

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial
(ĕks*pē`rĭ*ĕn"shal)
a.
Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.
Coleridge.

It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.
Sir. W. Hamilton.


word: Experientialism
definition:
Experientialism

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ism
(ĕks*pē`rĭ*ĕn"shal*ĭz'm)
n.
(Philos.)
The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one.
G. C. Robertson.


word: Experientialist
definition:
Experientialist

Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ist
(ĕks*pē`rĭ*ĕn"shal*ĭst)
n.
One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism.  Also used adjectively.


word: Experiment
definition:
Experiment

Ex*per"i*ment
(?)
n.
[L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience.]
1.
A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof.

A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
J. Adams.

2.
Experience.
[Obs.]

Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee can find.
Milton.


word: Experiment₂
definition:
Experiment

Ex*per"i*ment
(ĕks*pĕr"ĭ*ment)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting.]
To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.


word: Experiment₃
definition:
Experiment

Ex*per"i*ment
v. t.
To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Herbert.


word: Experimental
definition:
Experimental

Ex*per`i*men"tal
(?)
a.
[Cf.F. expérimental.]
1.
Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

2.
Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.


word: experimentalism
definition:
experimentalism

experimentalism
n.
1.
an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

2.
an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation; as, the children of psycholoigsts are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism.


word: Experimentalist
definition:
Experimentalist

Ex*per`i*men"tal*ist
n.
1.
One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.
Whaterly.

2.
One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist.


word: Experimentalize
definition:
Experimentalize

Ex*per`i*men"tal*ize
(?)
v. i.
To make experiments (upon); to experiment.
J. S. Mill.


word: Experimentarian
definition:
Experimentarian

Ex*per`i*men*ta"ri*an
(?)
a.
Relying on experiment or experience.
experimentarian
Boyle.
 n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [Obs.]


word: Experimentation
definition:
Experimentation

Ex*per`i*men*ta"tion
(?)
n.
The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
J. S. Mill.


word: Experimenter
definition:
Experimenter

Ex*per"i*men`ter
(?)
n.
One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.
 Faraday.


word: Experrection
definition:
Experrection

Ex`per*rec"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expergisci, p. p. experrectus, to rouse up; ex out + pergere to wake up.]
A waking up or arousing.
[Obs.]
Holland


word: Expert
definition:
Expert

Ex*pert"
(ĕks*pẽrt")
a.
[F. expert, L. expertus, p. p. of experiri to try. See Experience.]
Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

A valiant and most expert gentleman.
Shak.

What practice, howsoe'er expert
In fitting aptest words to things . . . 
Hath power to give thee as thou wert?
Tennyson.


word: Expert₂
definition:
Expert

Ex"pert
(?)
n.
1.
An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

2.
(Law)
(a)
A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

&hand_; Such specialists may be witnesses in matters as to which ordinary observers could not without such aid form just conclusions, and are liable for negligence in case they injure another from want of proper qualifications or proper care in the exercise of their specialty.


word: Expertly
definition:
Expertly

Ex*pert"ly
adv.
In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.


word: Expertness
definition:
Expertness

Ex*pert"ness
n.
Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.


word: Expetible
definition:
Expetible

Ex*pet"ible
(?)
a.
[L., expetibilis, fr. expetere to wish for; ex out + petere to seek.]
Worthy of being wished for; desirable.
[Obs.]
Puller.


word: Expiable
definition:
Expiable

Ex"pi*a*ble
(?)
a.
[See Expiate.]
Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.
Bp. Hall.


word: Expiate
definition:
Expiate

Ex"pi*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expiated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expiating(?).]
[L. expiatus, p. p. of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. pius pious. See Pious.]
1.
To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

To expiate his treason, hath naught left.
Milton.

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
Clarendon.

2.
To purify with sacred rites.
[Obs.]

Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.
Deut. xviii. 10 (Douay version)


word: Expiation
definition:
Expiation

Ex`pi*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
1.
The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation.
W. Irving.

2.
The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.

Those shadowy expiations weak,
The blood of bulls and goats.
Milton.

3.
An act by which the threats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
[Obs.]
Hayward.


word: Expiatory
definition:
Expiatory

Ex"pi*a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. expiatorius: cf. F. expiatoire.]
Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.


word: Expilation
definition:
Expilation

Ex`pi*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expiatio.]
The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.
[Obs.]

This ravenous expilation of the state.
Daniel.


word: Expilator
definition:
Expilator

Ex"pi*la`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Expiration
definition:
Expiration

Ex`pi*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expiratio,exspiratio: cf. F. expiration. See Expire.]
1.
The act of expiring
(a)
(Physiol.)
The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.
(b)
Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth.
Bacon.
Before the expiration of thy time.
Shak.

2.
That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

The aspirate “he,” which is . . . a gentle expiration.
G. Sharp.


word: expiration-dated
definition:
expiration-dated

expiration-dated
adj.
bearing a date after which it is no longer valid or salable; -- of a security, option, or perishable item.
[British]

Syn. -- expiring, dated.


word: Expiratory
definition:
Expiratory

Ex*pir"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
(Physiol.)
Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.


word: Expire
definition:
Expire

Ex*pire"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expired (?); p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.]
[L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.]
1.
To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
Harvey.

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
Dryden.

2.
To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.
Bacon.

3.
To emit; to give out.
[Obs.]
Dryden.

4.
To bring to a close; to terminate.
[Obs.]

Expire the term
Of a despised life.
Shak.


word: Expire₂
definition:
Expire

Ex*pire"
v. i.
1.
To emit the breath.

2.
To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

3.
To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

4.
To burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
[Obs.]
expires
Dryden.


word: expired
definition:
expired

expired
adj.
having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license.  Opposite of unexpired.


word: Expiring
definition:
Expiring

Ex*pir"ing
(?)
a.
1.
Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

2.
Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.


word: Expiry
definition:
Expiry

Ex"pi*ry
(?)
n.
Expiration.

He had to leave at the expiry of the term.
Lamb.

The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.
J. Morley.


word: Expiscate
definition:
Expiscate

Ex*pis"cate
(?)
v. t.
[L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.]
To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
expiscate
[R.]
Nichol.

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them.
W. L. Alexander.


word: Explain
definition:
Explain

Ex*plain"
(ĕks*plān")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Explained(ĕks*plānd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Explaining.]
[L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out + plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See Plain,a., and cf. Esplanade.]
1.
To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
[Obs.]

The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf.
Evelyn.

2.
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you.
Gay.

To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. “Those explain the meaning quite away.”  Pope.


word: Explainable
definition:
Explainable

Ex*plain"a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. explainabilis.]
Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.
Sir. T. Browne.

Syn. -- explicable.


word: Explainer
definition:
Explainer

Ex*plain"er
(?)
n.
One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Syn. -- explicator.


word: Explanate
definition:
Explanate

Ex"pla*nate
a.
[L. explanatus, p. p. of explanare. See Explain.]
(Bot. & Zoöl.)
Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.


word: Explanation
definition:
Explanation

Ex`pla*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. explanatio: cf. OF. esplanation.]
1.
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.

2.
That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.

3.
The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.

Different explanations [of the Trinity].
Bp. Burnet.

4.
A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.


word: Explanatory
definition:
Explanatory

Ex*plan"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. explanatorius.]
Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.
Swift.


word: Explate
definition:
Explate

Explat

{ Ex*plat" (?), Ex*plate" (?), }
v. t.
[Pref. ex- + plat or plait.]
To explain; to unfold.
[Obs.]

Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws.
B. Jonson.


word: Expletion
definition:
Expletion

Ex*ple"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expletio a satisfying. See Expletive.]
Accomplishment; fulfillment.
[Obs.]
Killingbeck.


word: Expletive
definition:
Expletive

Ex"ple*tive
(?)
a.
[L. expletivus, from expletus, p. p. of explere to fill up; ex out+plere to fill, akin to plenus full: cf. F. explétif. See Full.]
Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
Expletive
Hallam.

Expletive phrases to plump his speech.
Barrow.


word: Expletive₂
definition:
Expletive

Ex"ple*tive
n.
A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

While explectives their feeble aid to join,
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
Pope.


word: Expletory
definition:
Expletory

Ex"ple*to*ry
(?)
a.
Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Explicable
definition:
Explicable

Ex"pli*ca*ble
(?)
a.
[L. explicabilis: cf. F. explicable.]
Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Syn. -- explainable.
It is not explicable upon any grounds.
Burke.


word: Explicate₂
definition:
Explicate

Ex"pli*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Explicated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Explicating(?).]
1.
To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
[Obs.]
explicate
Blackmore.

2.
To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated.
Dryden.


word: Explication
definition:
Explication

Ex`pli*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. explicatio: cf. F. explication.]
1.
The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

The explication of our Savior's parables.
Atterbury.

2.
The sense given by an expositor.
Bp. Burnet.


word: Explicative
definition:
Explicative

Ex"pli*ca*tive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. explicatif.]
Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
Sir W. Hamilton.


word: Explicit
definition:
Explicit

Ex"pli*cit
(?)
[LL., an abbreviation of explicitus (est liber) the book (which anciently was a roll of parchment) is unfolded (and, of course, “finished”). See Explicit, a.]
A word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.


word: Explicit₂
definition:
Explicit

Ex*plic"it
(?)
a.
[L. explicitus; p. p. of explicare to unfold: cf. F. explicite. See Explicate, Exploit.]
1.
Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.  Opposite of implicit.

The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt.
Bancroft.

2.
Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.

Explicit function. (Math.) See under Function.


word: Explicitly
definition:
Explicitly

Ex*plic"it*ly
(?)
adv.
In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.


word: Explicitness
definition:
Explicitness

Ex*plic"it*ness
n.
The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Explode
definition:
Explode

Ex*plode"
(ĕks*pl&omacrd")
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Exploded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exploding.]
[L. explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out + plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. exploder. See Plausible.]
1.
To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as, gunpowder explodes.

2.
To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

3.
To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.


word: Explode₂
definition:
Explode

Ex*plode"
v. t.
1.
To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
[Obs.]

Him old and young
Exploded, and seized with violent hands.
Milton.

2.
To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.

Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud.
Burke.

To explode and exterminate dark atheism.
Bently.

3.
To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.

4.
To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.

But late the kindled powder did explode
The massy ball and the brass tube unload.
Blackmore.


word: Explodent
definition:
Explodent

Ex*plod"ent
(?)
n.
1.
An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

2.
See Explosive, n., 2.


word: Exploder
definition:
Exploder

Ex*plod"er
(?)
n.
1.
One who or that which explodes.

2.
One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.
South.


word: Exploit
definition:
Exploit

Ex*ploit"
(?)
n.
[OE. esploit success, OF. esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit, F. exploit exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p. p. neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Explicit, Explicate.]
1.
A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
Shak.

2.
Combat; war.
[Obs.]

He made haste to exploit some warlike service.
Holland.

2.
[F. exploiter.]
To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.
[Recent]

3.
Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
[Recent]

In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés or make his capital “out of” anybody else.
W. G. Sumner.


word: exploitive
definition:
exploitive

exploitive
adj.
tending to exploit or make use of.

Syn. -- exploitative, exploitatory.


word: Exploiture
definition:
Exploiture

Ex*ploi"ture
(?; 135)
n.
1.
The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.
[Obs.]
Udall.

2.
Exploitation.
Harper's Mag.


word: Exploration
definition:
Exploration

Ex`plo*ra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exploratio: cf. F. exploration.]
The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries
(Med.)
physical examination.

“An exploration of doctrine.”
Bp. Hall.


word: Exploratory
definition:
Exploratory

Ex*plor"a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. exploratorius.]
Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.
Sir H. Wotton.


word: Explore
definition:
Explore

Ex*plore"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Explored(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exploring.]
[L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud,prob. orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer.]
1.
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
[Obs.]

Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs.
Pope.

2.
To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.
explore
Dryden.


word: Explorer
definition:
Explorer

Ex*plor"er
(?)
n.
One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.


word: Explosion
definition:
Explosion

Ex*plo"sion
(?)
n.
[L. explosio a driving off by clapping: cf. F. explosion explosion. See Explode.]
1.
The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp, etc.

2.
A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.

3.
A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.

A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism.
Macaulay.

4.
a sudden and substantial increase; a rapid acceleration; as, the population explosion.


word: Explosive
definition:
Explosive

Ex*plo"sive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. explosif.]
Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.


word: Explosive₂
definition:
Explosive

Ex*plo"sive
n.
1.
An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.

2.
A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (Phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [See Guide to Pronunciation, √ 155-7, 184.]


word: Expolish
definition:
Expolish

Ex*pol"ish
(?)
v. t.
[Cf. L. expolire. See Polish.]
To polish thoroughly.
[Obs.]
Heywood.


word: Expone
definition:
Expone

Ex*pone"
(?)
v. t.
[OE. exponen. See Expound.]
To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.
[Old Eng. & Scotch]
Drummond.


word: Exponent
definition:
Exponent

Ex*po"nent
(?)
n.
[L. exponens, -entis, p. pr. of exponere to put out, set forth, expose. See Expound.]
1.
(Alg.)
A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated
thus a2 denotes the second power, and ax the xth power, of a (2 and x being the exponents). A fractional exponent, or index, is used to denote the root of a quantity. Thus, a1/3 denotes the third or cube root of a.

2.
One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.

3.
one who explains, expounds, or interprets.

Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]


word: Exponential
definition:
Exponential

Ex`po*nen"tial
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exponentiel.]
1.
Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.

2.
changing over time in an exponential manner, i. e. increasing or decreasing by a fixed ratio for each unit of time; as, exponential growth; exponential decay.

&hand_; Exponential growth is characteristic of bacteria and other living populations in circumstances where the conditions of growth are favorable, and all required nutrients are plentiful.  For example, the bacterium Escherichia coli in rich media may double in number every 20 minutes until one of the nutrients becomes exhausted or waste products begin to inhibit growth.  Many fascinating thought experiments are proposed on the theme of exponential growth.  One may calculate, for example how long it would take the progeny of one Escherichia coli to equal the mass of the known universe if it multiplied unimpeded at such a rate.  The answer, assuming the equivalent of 1080 hydrogen atoms in the universe, is less than three days.  Exponential increases in a quantity can be surprising, and this principle is often used by banks to make investment at a certain rate of interest seem to be very profitable over time.
   Exponential decay is exhibited by decay of radioactive materials and some chemical reactions (first order reactions), in which one-half of the initial quantity of radioactive element (or chemical substance) is lost for each lapse of a characteristic time called the half-life.

Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent. -- Exponential quantity (Math.), a quantity whose exponent is unknown or variable, as ax. -- Exponential series, a series derived from the development of exponential equations or quantities.


word: exponentiation
definition:
exponentiation

exponentiation
n.
the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power.

Syn. -- involution.


word: Export
definition:
Export

Ex*port"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exported; p. pr. & vb. n. Exporting.]
[L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.]
1.
To carry away; to remove.
[Obs.]

[They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy.
Bacon.

2.
To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.


word: Export₂
definition:
Export

Ex"port
(?)
n.
1.
The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

2.
That which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or State to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.

The ordinary course of exchange . . . between two places must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports.
A. Smith.


word: Exportability
definition:
Exportability

Ex*port`a*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality or state of being suitable for exportation.

To increase the exportability of native goods.
J. P. Peters.


word: Exportation
definition:
Exportation

Ex`por*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exportatio: cf. F. exporation.]
1.
The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.

2.
Commodity exported; an export.

3.
The act of carrying out.
[R.]
Bourne.


word: Exporter
definition:
Exporter

Ex*port"er
(?)
n.
One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.


word: Expose
definition:
Expose

Ex*pose"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exposed(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exposing.]
[F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]
1.
To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined.
Locke.

2.
To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
Shak.

3.
To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.

You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices.
Dryden.

4.
To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.


word: Expose₂
definition:
Expose

Ex`po`sé"
(?)
n.
[F., prop. p. p. of exposer. See Expose, v. t.]
A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.


word: exposed
definition:
exposed

exposed
adj.
1.
with no protection or shield; as, the exposed northeast frontier.

Syn. -- open.

2.
visible due to absence of clothing at that point; -- of body parts.

Syn. -- uncovered, bare.


word: Exposedness
definition:
Exposedness

Ex*pos"ed*ness
(?)
n.
The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.


word: exposit
definition:
exposit

exposit
v.
1.
to set forth reasons; to explain or expound.

2.
to make external.

Syn. -- externalize, externalise.


word: Exposition
definition:
Exposition

Ex`po*si"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expositio, fr. exponere, expositum: cf. F. exposition. See Expound.]
1.
The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

2.
The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.

You know the law; your exposition
Hath been most sound.
Shak.

3.
Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
[Obs.]
Arbuthnot.

4.
A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
[A Gallicism]


word: Expositor
definition:
Expositor

Ex*pos"i*tor
(?)
n.
[L. See Expound.]
One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.
Bp. Horsley.


word: Expository
definition:
Expository

Ex*pos"i*to*ry
(?)
a.
Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers.
Johnson.


word: Ex postfacto
definition:
Ex postfacto

Ex post facto

{ &VerbarEx" post` fac"to, or &VerbarEx" post`fac"to (ĕks" p&omacrst" făk"to̝) }
[L., from what is done afterwards.]
(Law)
From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.


word: Expostulate
definition:
Expostulate

Ex*pos"tu*late
(?; 135)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Expostulated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expostulating.]
[L. expostulatus, p. p. of expostulare to demand vehemently; ex out + postulare to ask, require. See Postulate.]
To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.

Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
Jowett (Thuc. ).


word: Expostulate₂
definition:
Expostulate

Ex*pos"tu*late
v. t.
To discuss; to examine.
[Obs.]

To expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is.
Shak.


word: Expostulation
definition:
Expostulation

Ex*pos`tu*la"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expostulatio.]
The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.

We must use expostulation kindly.
Shak.


word: Expostulatory
definition:
Expostulatory

Ex*pos"tu*la*to*ry
(?)
a.
Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.


word: Exposure
definition:
Exposure

Ex*po"sure
(?;135)
n.
[From Expose.]
1.
The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.

The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe.
Macaulay.

2.
The state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.

When we have our naked frailties hid,
That suffer in exposure.
Shak.

3.
Position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.
exposure
Evelyn.

The best exposure of the two for woodcocks.
Sir. W. Scott.

4.
(Photog.)
The exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.


word: Expound
definition:
Expound

Ex*pound"
(ĕks*pound")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Expounding.]
[OE. exponen, expounen, expounden, fr. L. exponere to set out, expose, expound; ex out + ponere to put: cf. OE. expondre, expondre. See Position.]
1.
To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
[Obs.]

He expounded both his pockets.
Hudibras.

2.
To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.

Expound this matter more fully to me.
Bunyan.


word: Express
definition:
Express

Ex*press"
(ĕks*prĕs")
a.
[F. exprès, L. expressus, p. p. of exprimere to express; ex. out + premere To press. See Press.]
1.
Exactly representing; exact.

Their human countenance
The express resemblance of the gods.
Milton.

2.
Directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement.

I have express commandment.
Shak.

3.
Intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. Also used adverbially.

 A messenger sent express from the other world.
Atterbury.

2.
of or pertaining to an express train or other conveyance designated an express{5}; makiung few or no intermediate stops; as, an express stop; an express fare; an express elevator.

Express color. (Law) See the Note under Color, n., 8.


word: Express₂
definition:
Express

Ex*press"
n.
[Cf. F. exprès a messenger.]
1.
A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
[Obs.]

The only remanent express of Christ's sacrifice on earth.
Jer. Taylor.

2.
A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels.

3.
An express office.

She charged him . . . to ask at the express if anything came up from town.
E. E. Hale.

4.
That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
[Obs.]
Eikon Basilike.

5.
a railway train or bus for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality; a train or bus that does not stop at certain stations.  Contrasted to local; as, take the express to get there faster.

Syn. -- express train.
Express office, an office where packages for an express are received or delivered. -- Express train, a railway train (such as a subway train) that does not stop at certain stations, but only at stations designated express stops.


word: Express₃
definition:
Express

Ex*press"
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expressed(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expressing.]
[Cf. OF. espresser, expresser, L. exprimere, expressum. See Express, a.; cf. Sprain.]
1.
To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.

All the fruits out of which drink is expressed.
Bacon.

And th'idle breath all utterly expressed.
Spenser.

Halters and racks can not express from thee
More than by deeds.
B. Jonson.

2.
To make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble.

Each skillful artist shall express thy form.
E. Smith.

So kids and whelps their sires and dams express.
Dryden.

3.
To give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell.

My words express my purpose.
Shak.

They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality.
Addison.

4.
To make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively.

Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening.
Pope.

5.
To denote; to designate.

Moses and Aaron took these men, which are expressed by their names.
Num. i. 17.

6.
To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.
7.
(Genetics)
to produce products that cause the appearance of the corresponding phenotype; -- of a gene or of an organism with a specific gene; as, to express the beta-galactosidase gene,


word: expressed
definition:
expressed

expressed
adj.
1.
Communicated in words.

Syn. -- uttered, verbalized.

2.
Precisely and clearly expressed, leaving nothing to implication.  Opposite of implicit.
graphic
Also See: definite, denotative, denotive, overt, open, unequivocal, unambiguous.

Syn. -- explicit, express.


word: Expressible
definition:
Expressible

Ex*press"i*ble
(-ĭ*b'l)
a.
Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.
Express"i*bly,adv.


word: Expression
definition:
Expression

Ex*pres"sion
(ĕks*prĕsh"ŭn)
n.
[L. expressio: cf. F. expression.]
1.
The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

2.
The act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.

With this tone of philosophy were mingled expressions of sympathy.
Prescott.

3.
Lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression.

The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing their attention on his wonderful power of expression, have directed their imitation to this.
M. Arnold.

4.
That which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling.
expression
Tennyson.

It still wore the majesty of expression so conspicuous in his portraits by the inimitable pencil of Titian.
Prescott.

5.
A form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.

6.
(Math.)
The representation of any quantity or relation by appropriate characters or symbols, usually in a specific order.

7.
(Genetics)
the production of products by a gene that cause the appearance of the corresponding protein or phenotype; -- of a gene or of an organism with a specific gene; as, the expression the beta-galactosidase positive phenotype,

8.
(Computers)
a combination of characters linked by operators, occurring as part of the code of a computer program, which must be evaluated according to the rules of the computer language in order to produce a resulting value.

  In most programming languages, (a + b) is an expression indicating simple arithmetic addition, if the variables a and b are real numbers.  Many other types of operation may be used in programs, and each set of symbols indicating an operation is an expression in that program.

Past expression, Beyond expression, beyond the power of description. “Beyond expression bright.”  Milton.


word: Expressional
definition:
Expressional

Ex*pres"sion*al
(-al)
a.
Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.
Fitzed. Hall. Ruskin.


word: expressionism
definition:
expressionism

expressionism
n.
1.
an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized.

2.
a genre of German painting that tried to show the subjective responses to scenes rather than the scenes themselves.


word: expressionistic
definition:
expressionistic

expressionist

expressionist expressionistic
adj.
1.
of or pertaining to expressionism (definition 2); as, expressionist art.


word: Expressive
definition:
Expressive

Ex*press"ive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. expressif.]
1.
Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.

Each verse so swells expressive of her woes.
Tickell.

2.
Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words.

You have restrained yourself within the list of too cold an adieu; be more expressive to them.
Shak.

Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke.
Littelton.


word: Expressly
definition:
Expressly

Ex*press"ly
adv.
In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel.
Ezek. i. 3.

I am sent expressly to your lordship.
Shak.


word: Expressman
definition:
Expressman

Ex*press"man
(-man)
n.
pl. Expressmen (-men).
A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon.
W. D. Howells.


word: Express rifle
definition:
Express rifle

Ex*press" ri"fle
A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.


word: Express train
definition:
Express train

Express train
Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.


word: Expressure
definition:
Expressure

Ex*pres"sure
(?;135)
n.
The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.
[Obs.]

An operation more divine
Than breath or pen can give expressure to.
Shak.


word: Exprobrate
definition:
Exprobrate

Ex"pro*brate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exprobratus, p. p. of exprobrare; ex out + probrum a shameful or disgraceful act.]
To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exprobration
definition:
Exprobration

Ex`pro*bra"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exprobration: cf. F. exprobration.]
Reproachful accusation; upbraiding.
[Obs.]

A fearful exprobration of our unworthiness.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Exprobratory
definition:
Exprobratory

Exprobrative

{ Ex*pro"bra*tive (?), Ex*pro"bra*to*ry (?), }
a.
Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful.
[R.]
Sir A. Shirley.


word: Expropriate
definition:
Expropriate

Ex*pro"pri*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. ex out, from + proprius one's own: cf. F. exproprier.]
To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
Boyle.

Expropriate these [bad landlords] as the monks were expropriated by Act of Parliament.
M. Arnold.


word: expropriated
definition:
expropriated

expropriated
adj.
taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.


word: Expropriation
definition:
Expropriation

Ex*pro`pri*a"tion
n.
[Cf. F. expropriation.]
The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.
W. Montagu.

The expropriation of bad landlords.
M. Arnold.


word: Expugn
definition:
Expugn

Ex*pugn"
(ĕks*pūn")
v. t.
[L. expugnare; ex out + pugnare to fight, pugna fight.  Cf. Impugn.]
To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.


word: Expugnation
definition:
Expugnation

Ex`pug*na"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expugnatio.]
The act of taking by assault; conquest.
[R.]
Sandys.


word: Expulse
definition:
Expulse

Ex*pulse"
(?)
v. t.
[F. expulser or L. expulsare, intens. fr. expellere. See Expel.]
To drive out; to expel.
[Obs.]

If charity be thus excluded and expulsed.
Milton.


word: Expulsion
definition:
Expulsion

Ex*pul"sion
(?)
n.
[L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F. expulsion. See Expel.]
1.
The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

The expulsion of the Tarquins.
Shak.

2.
The state of being expelled or driven out.


word: Expulsive
definition:
Expulsive

Ex*pul"sive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. expulsif.]
Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

The expulsive power of a new affection.
Chalmers.


word: Expunction
definition:
Expunction

Ex*punc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expunctio execution, performance, from expungere. See Expunge.]
The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.
Milton.


word: Expunge
definition:
Expunge

Ex*punge"
(ĕks*pŭnj")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expunged (ĕks*pŭnjd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Expunging (ĕks*pŭn"jĭng).]
[L. expungere, expunctum, prick out, expunge, settle an account, execute; ex out + pungere to prick, puncture. See Pungent.]
1.
To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

2.
To strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expunge an offense.
Sandys.

Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts.
Pope.


word: Expurgate
definition:
Expurgate

Ex"pur*gate
(ĕks"pŭr*gāt or ĕks*pûr"gāt; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Expurgated (ĕks`pŭr*gā"tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Expurgating (ĕks`pŭr*gā"tĭng).]
[L. expurgatus, p. p. of expurgare to purge, purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, and cf. Spurge.]
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.


word: expurgated
definition:
expurgated

expurgated
adj.
having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.


word: Expurgation
definition:
Expurgation

Ex`pur*ga"tion
(?)
n.
[L. expurgatio justification, excuse: cf. F. expurgation.]
The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
Milton.


word: Expurgatory
definition:
Expurgatory

Ex*pur"ga*to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. expurgatoire.]
Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
Expurgatory
Sir T. Browne.

Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.


word: Exquisite
definition:
Exquisite

Ex"qui*site
(?)
a.
[L. exquisitus, p. p. of exquirere to search out; ex out + quarere to seek, search. See Quest.]
1.
Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.

Plate of rare device, and jewels
Of reach and exquisite form.
Shak.

I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough.
Shak.

2.
Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.

3.
Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.

His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite.
Fuller.


word: Exquisite₂
definition:
Exquisite

Ex"qui*site
n.
One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.


word: Exquisitely
definition:
Exquisitely

Ex"qui*site*ly
adv.
In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.

To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it.
Hawthorne.


word: Exquisitive
definition:
Exquisitive

Ex*quis"i*tive
(?)
a.
Eager to discover or learn; curious.
[Obs.]
Todd.
Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.


word: Exsanguinity
definition:
Exsanguinity

Ex`san*guin"i*ty
(?)
n.
(Med.)
Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.
Dunglison.


word: Exsanguious
definition:
Exsanguious

Ex*san"gui*ous
(?)
a.
[L. exsanguis; ex out + sanguis, sanguinis, blood.  Cf. Exsanguineous.]
1.
Destitute of blood.
Sir T. Browne.

2.
(Zoöl.)
Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.


word: Exscind
definition:
Exscind

Ex*scind"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exscinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exscinding.]
[L. exscindere; ex out, from + scindere to cut.]
To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
Barrow.

The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly.
Am. Cyc.


word: Exscribe
definition:
Exscribe

Ex*scribe"
(?)
v. t.
[L. excribere; ex out, from + scribere to write.]
To copy; to transcribe.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Exscript
definition:
Exscript

Ex"script
(?)
n.
[L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere.]
A copy; a transcript.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Exscriptural
definition:
Exscriptural

Ex*scrip"tur*al
(?; 135)
a.
[Pref. ex-+scriptural.]
Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.


word: Exscutellate
definition:
Exscutellate

Ex*scu"tel*late
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex- + scutellate.]
(Zoöl.)
Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.


word: Exsect
definition:
Exsect

Ex*sect"
(?)
v. t.
[L. exsectio.]
1.
A cutting out or away.
E. Darwin.

2.
(Surg.)
The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.


word: Exserted
definition:
Exserted

Exsert

{ Ex*sert" (?), Ex*sert"ed, }
a.
[L. exsertus, p. p. of exserere to stretch out or forth. See Exert.]
Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.

A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.
D. H. Barnes.


word: Exsert
definition:
Exsert

Ex*sert"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exserted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exserting.]
[See Exsert, a., Exert.]
To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.


word: ex-serviceman
definition:
ex-serviceman

ex-serviceman
n.
a person who has served in the armed forces.

Syn. -- veteran, vet.


word: Exsiccant
definition:
Exsiccant

Ex*sic"cant
(?)
a.
[L. exsiccans, p. pr. of exsiccare. See Exsiccate.]
Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.
n. (Med.) An exsiccant medicine.


word: Exsiccate
definition:
Exsiccate

Ex"sic*cate
(?; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exsiccated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exsiccating.]
[L. exsiccatus, p. p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex out + siccare to make dry, siccus dry.]
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exsiccation
definition:
Exsiccation

Ex`sic*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exsiccatio: cf. F. exsiccation.]
The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Exsiccator
definition:
Exsiccator

Ex"sic*ca`tor
(?)
n.
(Chem.)
An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.


word: Exsiliency
definition:
Exsiliency

Ex*sil"i*en*cy
(?; 106)
n.
[L. exsiliens leaping out, p. pr. of exsilire; ex out + salire to leap.]
A leaping out.
[R.]
Latham.


word: Exspoliation
definition:
Exspoliation

Ex*spo`li*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exspoliatio, fr. exspoliare to spoil, to plunder; ex out, from + spoliare. See Spoliate.]
Spoliation.
[Obs. or R.]
Bp. Hall.


word: Exspuition
definition:
Exspuition

Ex`spu*i"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exspuitio; ex out + spuere to spit: cf. F. exspuition.]
A discharge of saliva by spitting.
[R.]
E. Darwin.


word: Exstrophy
definition:
Exstrophy

Ex"stro*phy
(?)
n.
[Gr. _; to turn inside out; _; = _; out + _; to turn.]
(Med.)
The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.


word: Exsuccous
definition:
Exsuccous

Ex*suc"cous
(?)
a.
[L. exsuccus; ex out + succus juice.]
Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.


word: Exsuction
definition:
Exsuction

Ex*suc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exsugere, exsuctum, to suck out; ex out + sugere to suck: cf. F. exsuccion.]
The act of sucking out.


word: Exsufflate
definition:
Exsufflate

Ex`suf*flate"
(?)
v. t.
[L. exsufflare to blow at or upon; ex out + sufflare. See Sufflate.]
(Eccles.)
To exorcise or renounce by blowing.


word: Exsufflation
definition:
Exsufflation

Ex`suf*fla"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. LL. exsufflatio.]
1.
A blast from beneath.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

2.
(Eccles.)
A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.
Jer. Taylor.

3.
(Physiol.)
A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.


word: Exsufflicate
definition:
Exsufflicate

Ex*suf"fli*cate
(?)
a.
Empty; frivolous.
[A Shakespearean word only once used.]

Such exsufflicate and blown surmises.
Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).


word: Exsuscitate
definition:
Exsuscitate

Ex*sus"ci*tate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exsuscitatus, p. p. of exsuscitare; ex out + suscitare. See Suscitate.]
To rouse; to excite.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Exsuscitation
definition:
Exsuscitation

Ex*sus`ci*ta"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exsuscitatio.]
A stirring up; a rousing.
[Obs.]
Hallywell.


word: Extance
definition:
Extance

Ex"tance
(?)
n.
[L. extantia, exstantia, a standing out, fr. exstans, p. pr. See Extant.]
Outward existence.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Extancy
definition:
Extancy

Ex"tan*cy
(?)
n.
[L. extantia, exstantia.]
The state of rising above others; a projection.
Evelyn. Boyle.


word: Extant
definition:
Extant

Ex"tant
(?)
a.
[L. extans, -antis, or exstans, -antis, p. pr. of extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out + stare to stand: cf. F. extant. See Stand.]
1.
Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums.
Ray.

A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant.
Bentley.

2.
Still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.

Writings that were extant at that time.
Sir M. Hale.

The extant portraits of this great man.
I. Taylor.

3.
Publicly known; conspicuous.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Extemporal
definition:
Extemporal

Ex*tem"po*ral
(?)
a.
[L. extemporalis, from ex tempore.]
Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.


word: Extemporaneous
definition:
Extemporaneous

Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[See Extempore.]
Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; ad-lib; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.
Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.


word: Extemporary
definition:
Extemporary

Ex*tem"po*ra*ry
(?)
a.
1.
Extemporaneous.
extemporary
Fuller.

2.
Made for the occasion; for the time being.
[Obs.]
Extemporary
Maundrell.


word: Extempore
definition:
Extempore

Ex*tem"po*re
(?)
adv.
[L. ex out + tempus, temporis, time. See Temporal.]
Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore.
Shak.
a. Done or performed extempore. “Extempore dissertation.” Addison. “Extempore poetry.” Dryden.
n. Speaking or writing done extempore. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.


word: Extemporiness
definition:
Extemporiness

Ex*tem"po*ri*ness
(?)
n.
The quality of being done or devised extempore
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Extemporization
definition:
Extemporization

Ex*tem`po*ri*za"tion
(?)
n.
The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.


word: Extemporize
definition:
Extemporize

Ex*tem"po*rize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Extemporized(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing(?).]
To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.


word: Extemporize₂
definition:
Extemporize

Ex*tem"po*rize
v. t.
To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.

Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech
Lord Campbell.


word: Extend
definition:
Extend

Ex*tend"
(ĕks*tĕnd")
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extended; p. pr. & vb. n. Extending.]
[L. extendere, extentum, extensum; ex out + tendere to stretch. See Trend.]
1.
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge.
Locke.

2.
To enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.

3.
To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trial.

4.
To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.

His helpless hand extend.
Dryden.

5.
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.

6.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.
G. P. Burnham.

7.
(Eng. Law)
To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.

Extended letter (Typog.), a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height.

&hand_; This is extended type.


word: Extendible
definition:
Extendible

Ex*tend"i*ble
(?)
a.
1.
Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

2.
(Law)
Liable to be taken by a writ of extent.


word: Extendlessness
definition:
Extendlessness

Ex*tend"less*ness
n.
Unlimited extension.
[Obs.]

An . . . extendlessness of excursions.
Sir. M. Hale.


word: Extense
definition:
Extense

Ex*tense"
(?)
a.
[L. extensus, p. p. See Extend, v. t.]
Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

Men and gods are too extense;
Could you slacken and condense?
Emerson.


word: Extensibility
definition:
Extensibility

Ex*ten`si*bil"i*ty
(?)
n.
The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.


word: Extensible
definition:
Extensible

Ex*ten"si*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. extensible. See Extend.]
Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.
extensible
Holder.


word: Extension
definition:
Extension

Ex*ten"sion
(?)
n.
[L. extensio: cf. F. extension. See Extend, v. t.]
1.
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

2.
(Physics)
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.

3.
(Logic & Metaph.)
(a)
Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.
(b)
the class or set of objects to which a term refers; -- contrasted with intension, the logical specification which defines members of a class, being the set of attributes which are necessary and sufficient to recognize an object as a member of the class.

The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension.
Sir W. Hamilton.

The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects.
Abp. Thomson.

4.
(Surg.)
The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

5.
(Physiol.)
The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.

6.
(Com.)
A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.

Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter. -- Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.


word: Extensive
definition:
Extensive

Ex*ten"sive
(?)
a.
[L. extensivus: cf. F. extensif. See Extend.]
1.
Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

2.
Capable of being extended.
[Obs.]

Silver beaters choose the finest coin, as that which is most extensive under the hammer.
Boyle.


word: Extensively
definition:
Extensively

Ex*ten"sive*ly
adv.
To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.


word: Extensiveness
definition:
Extensiveness

Ex*ten"sive*ness
(?)
n.
The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.


word: Extensometer
definition:
Extensometer

Ex`ten*som"e*ter
(?)
n.
[Extension + -meter.]
An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.


word: Extensor
definition:
Extensor

Ex*ten"sor
(?)
n.
[L., one who stretches. See Extend.]
(Anat.)
A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.


word: Extent₂
definition:
Extent

Ex*tent"
n.
[L. extentus, fr. extendere. See Extend.]
1.
Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.

Life in its large extent is scare a span.
Cotton.

2.
Degree; measure; proportion.
extent
Lubbock.

3.
(Eng. Law)
(a)
A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.
(b)
A process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.


word: Extenuate
definition:
Extenuate

Ex*ten"u*ate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extenuated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extenuating(?).]
[L. extenuatus, p. p. of extenuare to make thin, loosen, weaken; ex out + tenuare to make thin, tenuis thin. See Tenuity.]
1.
To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail.
Grew.

2.
To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate.

But fortune there extenuates the crime.
Dryden.

Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality.
I. Taylor.

3.
To lower or degrade; to detract from.
[Obs.]

Who can extenuate thee?
Milton.


word: Extenuate₂
definition:
Extenuate

Ex*ten"u*ate
v. i.
To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.
Burke.


word: extenuating
definition:
extenuating

extenuating
adj.
serving or tending to reduce the severity of guilt or blameworthiness; as, extenuating circumstances.

Syn. -- mitigating.


word: Extenuation
definition:
Extenuation

Ex*ten`u*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. extenuatio: cf. F. exténuation.]
The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.

To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil.
I. Taylor.


word: Extenuatory
definition:
Extenuatory

Ex*ten"u*a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[Cf. L. extenuatorius attenuating.]
Tending to extenuate or palliate.
Croker.


word: Exterior
definition:
Exterior

Ex*te"ri*or
a.
[L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. extérieur. See Ex-, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]
1.
External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.

Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man
Resemble that it was.
Shak.

2.
External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.

Without exterior help sustained.
Milton.

3.
Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.

Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside. -- Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.

See Illust. of Ravelin.


word: Exterior₂
definition:
Exterior

Ex*te"ri*or
n.
1.
The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.

2.
Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.


word: exteriorisation
definition:
exteriorisation

exteriorisation
n.
same as exteriorization.
[Brit.]

Syn. -- externalization, externalisation, exteriorization.


word: exteriorization
definition:
exteriorization

exteriorization
n.
embodying in an outward form.

Syn. -- externalization, externalisation, exteriorisation.


word: Exteriorly
definition:
Exteriorly

Ex*te"ri*or*ly
(?)
adv.
Outwardly; externally; on the exterior.
Shak.

They are exteriorly lifelike.
J. H. Morse.


word: exterminable
definition:
exterminable

exterminable
adj.
capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out.

Syn. -- extirpable.


word: Exterminate
definition:
Exterminate

Ex*ter"mi*nate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exterminated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exterminating(?).]
[L. exterminatus, p. p. of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1.
To drive out or away; to expel.

They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion.
Barrow.

2.
To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.

To explode and exterminate rank atheism.
Bentley.

3.
(Math.)
To eliminate, as unknown quantities.
[R.]


word: Extermination
definition:
Extermination

Ex*ter`mi*na"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. extermination.]
1.
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

2.
(Math.)
Elimination.
[R.]


word: Exterminatory
definition:
Exterminatory

Ex*ter"mi*na*to*ry
(?)
a.
Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.
Exterminatory
Burke.


word: Extern
definition:
Extern

Ex*tern"
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. externe. See External.]
External; outward; not inherent.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Extern₂
definition:
Extern

Ex*tern"
n.
[Cf. F. externe.]
1.
A pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.

2.
Outward form or part; exterior.
[R.]

3.
same as externe.


word: External
definition:
External

Ex*ter"nal
(?)
a.
[L. externus, fr. exter, exterus, on the outside, outward. See Exterior.]
1.
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.

Of all external things, . . . 
She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
Milton.

2.
Outside of or separate from ourselves; (Metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.

3.
Outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.

Her virtues graced with external gifts.
Shak.

4.
Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.

The external circumstances are greatly different.
Trench.

5.
Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.

6.
(Anat.)
Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

External angles. (Geom.) See under Angle.


word: External₂
definition:
External

Ex*ter"nal
n.
Something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.

Adam was then no less glorious in his externals
South.

God in externals could not place content.
Pope.


word: externalisation
definition:
externalisation

externalisation
n.
embodying in an outward form.

Syn. -- externalization, exteriorization, exteriorisation.


word: Externalism
definition:
Externalism

Ex*ter"nal*ism
(?)
n.
1.
The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.

This externalism gave Catholicism a great advantage on all sides.
E. Eggleston.

2.
(Metaph.)
That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.


word: Externality
definition:
Externality

Ex`ter*nal"i*ty
(?)
n.
State of being external; exteriority
(Metaph.)
separation from the perceiving mind.

Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists.
A. Smith.


word: externalization
definition:
externalization

externalization
n.
1.
attributing to outside causes.

2.
embodying in an outward form.

Syn. -- externalisation, exteriorization, exteriorisation.


word: Externalize
definition:
Externalize

Ex*ter"nal*ize
(?)
v. t.
To make external; to manifest by outward form.

Thought externalizes itself in language.
Soyce.


word: Externally
definition:
Externally

Ex*ter"nal*ly
adv.
In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.


word: Extern₃
definition:
Extern

Externe

&VerbarEx`terne", Ex*tern"
(ĕks`tĕrn")
n.
[F.  Cf. Extern.]
a person affiliated with an institution who does not reside there;
especially,
(Med.)
a doctor or medical student who is in attendance upon, or is assisting at, a hospital, but who does not reside in it.


word: Exterraneous
definition:
Exterraneous

Ex`ter*ra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. exterraneus; es out + terra land.]
Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad.


word: Exterritorial
definition:
Exterritorial

Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al
(?)
a.
[Pref. ex_; + territorial.]
Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, the territorial jurisdiction.
Ex*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#),adv.


word: Exterritoriality
definition:
Exterritoriality

Ex*ter`ri*to`ri*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
1.
The state of being beyond the limits of a country.

2.
The state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.


word: Extersion
definition:
Extersion

Ex*ter"sion
(?)
n.
[L. extergere, extersum, to wipe out; ex out + tergere to wipe or rub off.]
The act of wiping or rubbing out.
[Obs.]


word: Extill
definition:
Extill

Ex*till"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Extilled(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extilling.]
[L. extillare, exstillare; ex out + stillare to drop, stilla drop.]
To drop or distill.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Extillation
definition:
Extillation

Ex`til*la"tion
(?)
n.
Distillation.
[Obs.]

An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices.
Derham.


word: Extimulate
definition:
Extimulate

Ex*tim"u*late
(?)
v. t.
[L. extimulatus, exstimulatus, p. p. of extimulare, exstimulare, to goad. See Stimulate.]
To stimulate.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Extimulation
definition:
Extimulation

Ex*tim`u*la"tion
(?)
n.
Stimulation.
[Obs.]

Things insipid, and without any extimulation.
Bacon.


word: Extinct
definition:
Extinct

Ex*tinct"
(?)
a.
[L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of extinguere, exstinguere. See Extinguish.]
1.
Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct.
Milton.

2.
Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

3.
Specifically:
Once existing as a species but now having no living members; -- used of species of living organisms, especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.


word: Extinction
definition:
Extinction

Ex*tinc"tion
(?)
n.
[L. extinctio, exstinction: cf. F. extinction.]
1.
The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

2.
State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

3.
Specifically:
The ceasing to exist of a species of living organism, such as a plant or animal, whose numbers declined to the point where the last member of the species died and therefore no new members of the species could ever again be born.

&hand_; Extinctions have occurred many times throughout the history of life on Earth, and abundant evidence of the prior existence of animals and plants are found as fossils in rock formations many millions of years old.  It is believed by some that due to the influence of man on the environment and destruction of habitat, the rate of extinction of species is now higher than at any previous time on this planet.  Extinctions of some animals in recent years have actually been reliably recorded, such as that of the dodo bird.  A remarkable example of extinction is that of the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) in North America, which once numbered in the billions, and the last living member of which species was recorded as dying in captivity in 1914.


word: Extine
definition:
Extine

Ex"tine
(?; 104)
n.
[L. exter on the outside.  Cf. Intine.]
(bot.)
The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.


word: Extinguish
definition:
Extinguish

Ex*tin"guish
(ĕks*tĭ&nsmacr_;"gwĭsh)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extinguished(ĕks*tĭ&nsmacr_;"gwĭsht); p pr. & vb. n. Extinguishing.]
[L. extinguere, exstinguere; ex out + stinguere to quench. See Distinguish, Finish.]
1.
To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.

A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish.
Prescott.

This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
Blackstone.

2.
To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Natural graces that extinguish art.
Shak


word: extinguished
definition:
extinguished

extinguished
adj.
1.
(Psychol.)
caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.

2.
no longer burning; -- of a fire.

Syn. -- extinct, out(predicate), quenched.

3.
no longer existing; -- of species.

Syn. -- dead.


word: Extinguisher
definition:
Extinguisher

Ex*tin"guish*er
(?)
n.
One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.

fire extinguisher a portable device designed to deliver chemicals, usually in a stream, that can suppress or extinguish a fire.  Examples of fire extinghuishers are a carbon dioxide extinguisher, or CO2 extinguisher, and soda-acid extinguisher.


word: Extinguishment
definition:
Extinguishment

Ex*tin"guish*ment
(?)
n.
1.
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

2.
(Law)
The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
Abbott.


word: Extirp
definition:
Extirp

Ex*tirp"
(_;)
v. t.
[Cf. F. extirper.]
To extirpate.
[Obs.]

It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar.
Shak


word: Extirpable
definition:
Extirpable

Ex*tir"pa*ble
(?)
a.
Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.
Evelyn.


word: Extirpate
definition:
Extirpate

Ex"tir*pate
(?; 277)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extirpated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extirpating(?).]
[L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.]
To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.


word: Extirpation
definition:
Extirpation

Ex`tir*pa"tion
(?)
n.
[L. extirpatio, exstirpatio: cf. F. extirpation.]
The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.


word: Extirpator
definition:
Extirpator

Ex"tir*pa`tor
(?; 277)
n.
[L. extirpator, exstirpator: cf. F. extirpateur.]
One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.


word: Extispicious
definition:
Extispicious

Ex`ti*spi"cious
(?)
a.
[L. extispicium an inspection of the inwards for divination; extra the entrails + specer to look at.]
Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Extol
definition:
Extol

Ex*tol"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extolled(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extolling.]
[L. extollere; ex out + tollere to lift, take up, or raise: cf. OF. extoller. See Tollerate, and cf. Flate.]
1.
To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.
[Obs.]

Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes,
Where you might sit and muster all the beauties.
Beau. & Fl.

2.
To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

Wherein have I so deserved of you,
That you extol me thus?
Shak.


word: Extorsive
definition:
Extorsive

Ex*tor"sive
(?)
a.
[See Extort.]
Serving or tending to extort.
[R.]
Johnson.
Ex*tor"sive*ly, adv. [R.]


word: Extort
definition:
Extort

Ex*tort"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extorting.]
[L. extortus, p. p. of extorquere to twist or wrench out, to extort; ex out + torquere to turn about, twist. See Torsion.]
1.
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.

2.
(Law)
To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.


word: Extortion
definition:
Extortion

Ex*tor"tion
(?)
n.
[F. extorsion.]
1.
The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.

2.
(Law)
The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due.
Abbott.

3.
That which is extorted or exacted by force.


word: Extortious
definition:
Extortious

Ex*tor"tious
(?)
a.
Extortionate.
[Obs.]
Extortious
Bp. Hall
Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Bacon.


word: Extra-
definition:
Extra-

Ex"tra-
(?)
[L., fr. exter. See Exterior.]
A Latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.


word: Extra
definition:
Extra

Ex"tra
a.
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.
extra
H. Spencer.


word: Extra₂
definition:
Extra

Ex"tra
(?)
n.
pl. Extras (_;).
1.
Something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; esp., an added charge or fee, or something for which an additional charge is made; as, at some hotels air conditioning is an extra.

2.
An edition of a newspaper issued at a time other than the regular one.

3.
(Cricket)
A run, as from a bye, credited to the general score but not made from a hit.

4.
Something of an extra quality or grade.


word: Extraaxillary
definition:
Extraaxillary

Extraaxillar

{ Ex`tra*ax"il*lar (?), Ex`tra*ax"il*la*ry (?) }
a.
(Bot.)
Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.


word: Extrabranchial
definition:
Extrabranchial

Ex`tra*bran"chi*al
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.


word: Extracapsular
definition:
Extracapsular

Ex`tra*cap"su*lar
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.


word: extracellular
definition:
extracellular

extracellular
adj.
located or occurring outside of a living cell or cells; as, extracellular fluid.  Opposite of intracellular.


word: Extract
definition:
Extract

Ex*tract"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Extracting.]
[L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.]
1.
To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.

The bee
Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Milton.

2.
To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence.  Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.

Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.

3.
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.

I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Swift.

To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.


word: Extract₂
definition:
Extract

Ex"tract`
(?)
n.
1.
That which is extracted or drawn out.

2.
A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.

3.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

4.
(Med.)
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

5.
(Old Chem.)
A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
[Obs.]

6.
Extraction; descent.
[Obs.]
South.

7.
(Scots Law)
A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Tomlins.

Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug.


word: Extractible
definition:
Extractible

Extractable

{ Ex*tract"a*ble (?), Ex*tract"i*ble (?), }
a.
Capable of being extracted.


word: Extractiform
definition:
Extractiform

Ex*tract"i*form
(?)
a.
(Chem.)
Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.


word: Extraction
definition:
Extraction

Ex*trac"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. extraction.]
1.
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

2.
Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
extraction
Clarendon.

3.
That which is extracted; extract; essence.

They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Milton.

The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.


word: Extractive
definition:
Extractive

Ex*tract"ive
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. extractif.]
1.
Capable of being extracted.
extractive
Kirwan.

2.
Tending or serving to extract or draw out.

Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc.
Cairnes.


word: Extractive₂
definition:
Extractive

Ex*tract"ive
n.
1.
Anything extracted; an extract.

Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar.
H. N. Martin.

2.
(Chem.)
(a)
A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
[Obs.]
(b)
Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.


word: Extractor
definition:
Extractor

Ex*tract"or
(?)
n.
1.
One who, or that which, extracts
(a)
(Surg.)
A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
(b)
(Breech-loading Firearms)
A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.

2.
A centrifugal drying machine.

3.
(Apiculture)
A machine for clearing combs of honey; also, a device for rendering wax.


word: Extradictionary
definition:
Extradictionary

Ex`tra*dic"tion*a*ry
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + L. dictio a saying. See Diction.]
Consisting not in words, but in realities.
[Obs.]

Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six.
Sir T. Browne.


word: Extraditable
definition:
Extraditable

Ex"tra*di`ta*ble
(?)
a.
1.
Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

2.
Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.


word: Extradite
definition:
Extradite

Ex"tra*dite
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extradited(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extraditing(?).]
To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.


word: Extradition
definition:
Extradition

Ex`tra*di"tion
(?)
n.
[L. ex out + traditio a delivering up: cf. F. extradition. See Tradition.]
The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.


word: Extrados
definition:
Extrados

Ex*tra"dos
(?)
n.
[F.; pref. extra- outside + dos (L. dorsum) the back.]
(Arch.)
The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.


word: Extradotal
definition:
Extradotal

Ex`tra*do"tal
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + dotal.]
Forming no part of the dowry; as, extradotal property.


word: Extrafoliaceous
definition:
Extrafoliaceous

Ex`tra*fo`li*a"ceous
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + foliaceous.]
(Bot.)
Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles.
Loudon.


word: Extraforaneous
definition:
Extraforaneous

Ex`tra*fo*ra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + L. foras out of doors.]
Pertaining to that which is out of doors.
Extraforaneous
Cowper.


word: Extrageneous
definition:
Extrageneous

Ex`tra*ge"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + L. genus race.]
Belonging to another race or kind.


word: Extrajudicial
definition:
Extrajudicial

Ex`tra*ju*di"cial
(?)
a.
Out of or beyond the power authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not valid as a part of a judicial proceeding; as, extrajudicial oaths, judgments, etc., are null and void.
Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.


word: Extrajudicial conveyance
definition:
Extrajudicial conveyance

Extrajudicial conveyance
(Law)
A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.


word: Extralimitary
definition:
Extralimitary

Ex`tra*lim"it*a*ry
(?)
a.
Being beyond the limit or bounds; as, extraliminary land.
Mitford.


word: Extralogical
definition:
Extralogical

Ex`tra*log"ic*al
(?)
a.
Lying outside of the domain of logic.
Ex`tra*log"ic*al*ly, adv.


word: Extramundane
definition:
Extramundane

Ex`tra*mun"dane
(?)
a.
[L. extramundanus; extra + mundus world.]
Beyond the material world.
extramundane
Bp. Warburton.


word: Extramural
definition:
Extramural

Ex`tra*mu"ral
(?)
a.
1.
Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.

2.
pertaining to activities, such as sports contests, that involve representatives from more than one school.


word: Extraneous
definition:
Extraneous

Ex*tra"ne*ous
(?)
a.
[L. extraneus, from extra. See Extra-, Strange.]
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.

Nothing is admitted extraneous from the indictment.
Landor.


word: Extra-ocular
definition:
Extra-ocular

Ex`tra-oc"u*lar
(?)
a.
(Zoöl.)
Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.


word: Extraordinariness
definition:
Extraordinariness

Ex*traor"di*na*ri*ness
n.
The quality of being extraordinary.
[R.]
Gov. of the Tongue.


word: Extraordinary
definition:
Extraordinary

Ex*traor"di*na*ry
(?)
a.
[L. extraordinarius; extra on the outside + ordinarius: cf. F. extraordinaire. See Ordinary.]
1.
Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.

Which dispose
To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Milton.

2.
Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.

3.
Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.


word: Extraordinary₂
definition:
Extraordinary

Ex*traor"di*na*ry
n.
pl. Extraordinaries (_;).
That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.

Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotions.
Jer. Taylor.


word: Extraparochial
definition:
Extraparochial

Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al
(?)
a.
Beyond the limits of a parish.
Ex`tra*pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv.


word: Extraprofessional
definition:
Extraprofessional

Ex`tra*pro*fes"sion*al
(?)
a.
Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.


word: Extraprovincial
definition:
Extraprovincial

Ex`tra*pro*vin"cial
(?)
a.
Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.
Ayliffe.


word: extrasensory perception
definition:
extrasensory perception

extrasensory perception
n.
the ability to perceive or gain information about external facts or events by means other than the senses.
the existence of such an ability, as well as other parapsychologial phenomena, is widely disbelieved among scientists, and no demonstration of the phenomenon satisfyng rigorous standards of scientific proof has been reported.


word: Extrastapedial
definition:
Extrastapedial

Ex`tra*sta*pe"di*al
(ĕks`trȧ*staȧ*pē"dĭ*al)
a.
(Anat.)
Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes.
n. The extrastapedial part of columella.


word: extraterrestrial
definition:
extraterrestrial

ex`tra*ter*res"tri*al
(ĕks`trȧ*tĕr`rĕs"trĭ*al)
adj.
originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere; as, there is no clear evidence for extraterrestrial life.


word: extraterrestrial₂
definition:
extraterrestrial

extraterrestrial
(ĕks`trȧ*tĕr`rĕs"trĭ*al)
n.
a hypothetical form of life existing outside the Earth or its atmosphere, especially intelligent life on other planets or in other solar systems; as, what would you say to an extraterrestrial?.

Syn. -- extraterrestrial being, alien.


word: Extraterritorial
definition:
Extraterritorial

Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al
(ĕks`trȧ*tĕr`rĭ*t&omacr"rĭ*al)
a.
Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial.
Ex`tra*ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly(#), adv.


word: Extraterritoriality
definition:
Extraterritoriality

Ex`tra*ter`ri*to`ri*al"i*ty
(?)
n.
The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory
(Internat. Law)
A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation.
Wheaton.


word: Extraught
definition:
Extraught

Ex`traught"
(ĕks*tr&asuml_;t")
p. p.
Extract
[Cf. Distraught.]
Extracted; descended.
[Obs.]

Knowing whence thou art extraught
Shak.


word: Extra-uterine
definition:
Extra-uterine

Ex`tra-u"ter*ine
(?)
a.
(Anat. & Med.)
Outside of the uterus, or womb.

Extra-uterine pregnancy (Med.), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.


word: Extravagance
definition:
Extravagance

Ex*trav"a*gance
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. extravagance. See Extravagant, and cf. Extravaganza.]
1.
A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.

2.
The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.

Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance.
Dryden.

The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance.
Arbuthnot.


word: Extravagant
definition:
Extravagant

Ex*trav"a*gant
(?)
a.
[F. extravagant, fr. L. extra on the outside + vagans, -antis, p. pr. of vagari to wander, from vagus wandering, vague. See Vague.]
1.
Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
[Obs.]

The extravagant and erring spirit hies
To his confine.
Shak.

2.
Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.

There appears something nobly wild and extravagant in great natural geniuses.
Addison.

3.
Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
Extravagant
Bancroft.


word: Extravagant₂
definition:
Extravagant

Ex*trav"a*gant
n.
1.
One who is confined to no general rule.
L'Estrange.

2.
pl.
(Eccl. Hist.)
Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.


word: Extravagantness
definition:
Extravagantness

Ex*trav"a*gant*ness
n.
The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.


word: Extravaganza
definition:
Extravaganza

Ex*trav`a*gan"za
(?)
n.
[Extravagance with an Italian ending: cf. It. stravaganza.]
1.
A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.

2.
An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

3.
a lavish or spectacular show or event, or presentation; as, Disney staged an extravaganza in Central Park that drew many thousands.


word: Extravagate
definition:
Extravagate

Ex*trav"a*gate
(?)
v. i.
[Pref. extra- + L. vagatus, p. p. of vagari to rove. See Extravagant.]
To rove.
Bp. Warburton.


word: Extravasate
definition:
Extravasate

Ex*trav"a*sate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extravasated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Extravasating(?).]
[Pref. extra- + L. vas vessel: cf. F. extravaser. See Vase.]
To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.


word: Extravasate₂
definition:
Extravasate

Ex*trav"a*sate
(?)
v. i.
[See Extravasate, v. t.]
(Physiol.)
To pass by infiltration or effusion from the normal channel, such as a blood vessel or a lymphatic, into the surrounding tissue; -- said of blood, lymph, etc.


word: Extravasation
definition:
Extravasation

Ex*trav`a*sa"tion
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. extravasation.]
1.
The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

2.
(Geol.)
The issue of lava and other volcanic products from the earth.


word: Extravascular
definition:
Extravascular

Ex`tra*vas"cu*lar
(?)
a.
(Anat.)
(a)
Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.
(b)
Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.


word: Extravenate
definition:
Extravenate

Ex*trav"e*nate
(?)
a.
[Pref. extra- + L. vena vein.]
Let out of the veins.
[Obs.]
Extravenate
Glanvill.


word: Extraversion
definition:
Extraversion

Ex`tra*ver"sion
(?)
n.
[Pref. extra- + L. vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. extraversion.]
The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out.
[Obs.]
Boyle.


word: Extreme
definition:
Extreme

Ex*treme"
(?)
a.
[L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extrême. See Exterior.]
1.
At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

2.
Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

3.
The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
extremest
Dryden.
Extreme
Sir W. Scott.

Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire.
Shak.

4.
Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.

The Puritans or extreme Protestants.
Gladstone.

5.
(Mus.)
Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.

Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. -- Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6. -- Extreme unction. See under Unction.

&hand_; Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. “Tried in his extremest state.” Spenser. “Extremest hardships.” Sharp.  “Extremest of evils.” Bacon. “Extremest verge of the swift brook.” Shak. “The sea's extremest borders.” Addison.


word: Extreme₂
definition:
Extreme

Ex*treme"
n.
1.
The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.

2.
Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.

His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness.
Bancroft.

3.
An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
extremes
Shak.

4.
(Logic)
Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.

5.
(Math.)
The first or the last term of a proportion or series.

In the extreme as much as possible. “The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme.”  J. P. Peters.


word: Extremely
definition:
Extremely

Ex*treme"ly
adv.
In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.


word: Extremist
definition:
Extremist

Ex*trem"ist
(?)
n.
A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.


word: Extremity
definition:
Extremity

Ex*trem"i*ty
(?)
n.
pl. Extremities (_;).
[L. extremitas: cf. F. extrémité.]
1.
The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.

They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia.
Arbuthnot.

2.
(Zoöl.)
One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

3.
The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
extremity
Ray.

4.
The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.

Divers evils and extremities that follow upon such a compulsion shall here be set in view.
Milton.

Upon mere extremity he summoned this last Parliament.
Milton.


word: extremum
definition:
extremum

extremum
n.
1.
the point located farthest from the middle of something.

Syn. -- extreme point, extreme, extremity.

2.
the most extreme possible amount or value.

Syn. -- peak.


word: Extricate
definition:
Extricate

Ex"tri*cate
(ĕks"trĭ*kāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extricated(ĕks"trĭ*kā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Extricating(ĕks"trĭ*kā`tĭng).]
[L. extricatus, p. p. of extricare to extricate; ex out + tricae trifles, impediments, perplexities.  Cf. Intricate.]
1.
To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.

We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles.
Eustace.

2.
To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.


word: extricated
definition:
extricated

extricated
adj.
freed from an entanglement or difficulty.

Syn. -- disentangled, freed.


word: Extrication
definition:
Extrication

Ex`tri*ca"tion
(?)
n.
1.
The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.

2.
The act of sending out or evolving.


word: Extrinsic
definition:
Extrinsic

Ex*trin"sic
(?)
a.
[L. extrinsecus; exter on the outside + secus otherwise, beside; akin to E. second: cf. F. extrinsèque. See Exterior, Second.]
1.
Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.

The extrinsic aids of education and of artificial culture.
I. Taylor.

2.
(Anat.)
Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part; -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.


word: Extrinsicalness
definition:
Extrinsicalness

Extrinsicality

{ Ex*trin`si*cal"i*ty (?), Ex*trin"sic*al*ness (?), }
n.
The state or quality of being extrinsic.


word: Extroitive
definition:
Extroitive

Ex*tro"i*tive
(?)
a.
[L. extra on the outside + ire, itum, to go.]
Seeking or going out after external objects.
[R.]

Their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
Coleridge.


word: Extrorse
definition:
Extrorse

Ex*trorse"
(?)
a.
[As if from an assumed L. extrorsus, for extroversus; extra on the outside + vertere, versum, to turn: cf. F. extrorse.]
(Bot.)
Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.


word: extroversion
definition:
extroversion

ex`tro*ver"sion
(?)
n.
[See Extrorse.]
1.
The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder.
Dunglison.

2.
(Psychol.)
the trait of being interested primarily in things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings.

3.
(Psychol.)
the act of directing one's interests primarily toward things in one's external environement, rather than one's own thoughts and feelings.


word: extrovert
definition:
extrovert

extrovert
n.
(Psychol.)
A person who is extroverted; a person who is marked by an interest in others or concerned primarily with external reality.  Contrasted with introvert.


word: extrovertive
definition:
extrovertive

extroverted

extroverted extrovertive
adj.
1.
(Psychol.)
directed outward; marked by an interest in other people or concerned primarily with external reality.

Syn. -- extrovert, extravert, extraverted, extravertive, extroversive, extraversive.


word: Extruct
definition:
Extruct

Ex*truct"
(?)
v. t.
[L. extructus, exstructus, p. p. of extruere, exstruere, to build up; ex out + struere to build.]
To construct.
[Obs.]
Byrom.


word: Extrude
definition:
Extrude

Ex*trude"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Extruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Extruding.]
[L. extrudere, extrusum; ex out + trudere to thrust, akin to E. threat. See Threat.]
1.
To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.
extruded
Coleridge.

2.
(Metallurgy)
To shape or form by forcing metal heated to a semi-plastic condition through dies by the use of hydraulic power; as, extruded metal, extruded rods, extruded shapes.


word: Extrusive
definition:
Extrusive

Ex*tru"sive
(?)
a.
[See Extrude.]
(Geol.)
Forced out at the surface; as, extrusive rocks; -- contrasted with intrusive.


word: Extuberant
definition:
Extuberant

Ex*tu"ber*ant
(?)
a.
[L. extuberare.]
Swollen out; protuberant.
[R.]
Extuberant
Gayton.


word: Extuberate
definition:
Extuberate

Ex*tu"ber*ate
(?)
v. i.
[L. extuberatus, p. pr. of extuberare to swell; ex out + tuber a swelling.]
To swell out.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.


word: Extumescence
definition:
Extumescence

Ex`tu*mes"cence
(?)
n.
[L. ex. + tumescens, p. pr. of tumescere, incho. fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. extumescence.]
A swelling or rising.
[R.]
Cotgrave.


word: Exuberance
definition:
Exuberance

Ex*u"ber*ance
(?)
n.
[L. exuberantia: cf. F. exubérance.]
The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.


word: Exuberant
definition:
Exuberant

Ex*u"ber*ant
(?)
a.
[L. exuberans, exuberantis, p. pr. of exuberare to be abundant; ex + uberare to be fruitful, fr. uber fruitful, fertile, uber udder: cf. F. exubérant. See Udder.]
Characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.
Exuberant
Thomson.
Ex*u"ber*ant*ly, adv.


word: Exuberate
definition:
Exuberate

Ex*u"ber*ate
(?)
v. i.
[L. exuberatus, p. p. of exuberare. See Exuberant, n.]
To abound; to be in great abundance.
[Obs.]
Boyle.


word: Exudation
definition:
Exudation

Ex`u*da"tion
(?)
n.
The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.

Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations.
Am. Cyc.


word: Exude
definition:
Exude

Ex*ude"
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exuded; p. pr. & vb. n. exuding.]
[L. exudare, exsudare, exudatum, exsudatum, to sweat out; ex out + sudare to sweat: cf. F. exuder, exsuder. See Sweat.]
To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.

Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance.
Dr. T. Dwight.


word: Exulcerate
definition:
Exulcerate

Ex*ul"cer*ate
(?)
v. t. & i.
[L. exulceratus, p. p. of exulcerare to make sore; ex out + ulcerare. See Ulcerate.]
1.
To ulcerate.
[Obs.]
exulcerate
Evelyn.

2.
To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
[Obs.]

Minds exulcerated in themselves.
Hooker.


word: Exulceration
definition:
Exulceration

Ex*ul`cer*a"tion
(?)
n.
[L. exulceratio: cf. F. exulcération.]
[Obs. or R.]
1.
Ulceration.
Quincy.

2.
A fretting; a festering; soreness.
Hooker.


word: Exulceratory
definition:
Exulceratory

Ex*ul"cer*a*to*ry
(?)
a.
[L. exulceratorius: cf. F. exulcératoire.]
Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.


word: Exult
definition:
Exult

Ex*ult"
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Exulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exulting.]
[L. exultare, exsultare, exultatum, exsultatum, to leap vigorously, to exult, intens. fr. exsilire to spring out or up; ex out + salire to spring, leap: cf. F. exulter. See Salient.]
To be in high spirits; figuratively, to leap for joy; to rejoice in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart.
exulting
Bancroft.

The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego,
And leap exulting like the bounding roe.
Pope.


word: Exultancy
definition:
Exultancy

Exultance

{ Ex*ult"ance (?), Ex*ult"an*cy (?), }
n.
[L. exsultantia.]
Exultation.
[Obs.]
Burton. Hammond.


word: Exultant
definition:
Exultant

Ex*ult"ant
(?)
a.
[L. exsultans, exsultantis, p. pr. of exsultare. See Exult.]
Inclined to exult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly.

Break away, exultant, from every defilement.
I. Tay;or.


word: Exultation
definition:
Exultation

Ex`ul*ta"tion
(?; 277)
n.
[L. exsultatio: cf. F. exultation.]
The act of exulting; lively joy at success or victory, or at any advantage gained; rapturous delight; triumph.

His bosom swelled with exultation.
Prescott.


word: Exundate
definition:
Exundate

Ex*un"date
(?)
v. i.
[L. exundatus, p. p. of exundare to overflow; ex out + undare. See Undated waved.]
To overflow; to inundate.
[Obs.]
Bailey.


word: Exungulate
definition:
Exungulate

Ex*un"gu*late
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Exungulated(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Exungulating(?).]
[L. exungulare to lose the hoof, ex out, from + ungula. See Ungula.]
To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc.
[R.]


word: Exuperable
definition:
Exuperable

Ex*u"per*a*ble
(?)
a.
[L. exuperabilis, exsuperabilis. See Exuperate.]
Surmountable; superable.
[Obs.]
Johnson.


word: Exuperance
definition:
Exuperance

Ex*u"per*ance
(?)
n.
[L. exuperantia, exsuperantia.]
Superiority; superfluity.
[Obs.]
Sir K. Digby.


word: Exuperant
definition:
Exuperant

Ex*u"per*ant
(?)
a.
[L. exuperans, exsuperans, p. pr.]
Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting.
[Obs.]


word: Exuperate
definition:
Exuperate

Ex*u"per*ate
(?)
v. t.
[L. exuperatus, exsuperatus, p. p. of exuperare, exsuperare to excel; ex out + superare to go over, super above, over.]
To excel; to surmount.
[Obs.]


word: Exuperation
definition:
Exuperation

Ex*u`per*a"tion
(?)
n.
[See Exurgent.]
The act of rising or coming into view.
[Obs.]
Baxter.


word: Exurgent
definition:
Exurgent

Ex*ur"gent
(?)
a.
[L. exurgens, exsurgens, p. pr. of exurgere, exsurgere, to rise up; ex out + surgere to rise.]
Arising; coming to light.
[Obs.]


word: Exustion
definition:
Exustion

Ex*us"tion
(?; 106)
n.
[L. exustio, fr. exurere, exustum, to burn up; ex out + urere to burn.]
The act or operation of burning up.
Bailey.


word: Exuviable
definition:
Exuviable

Ex*u"vi*a*ble
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. exuviable.]
Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviæ.


word: Exuviae
definition:
Exuviae

Ex*u"vi*æ
n. pl.
[L., fr. exuere to draw out or off, to pull off.]
1.
(Zoöl.)
Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

2.
(Geol.)
The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.


word: Exuviate
definition:
Exuviate

Ex*u"vi*ate
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Exuviated, p. pr. & vb. n. Exuviating.]
(_;)
[From Exuviae.]
(Zoöl.)
To she
[1913 Webster]d an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.
There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year.
Huxley.


word: Exuviation
definition:
Exuviation

Ex*u`vi*a"tion
(?)
n.
(Zoöl.)
The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.


word: Ex-voto
definition:
Ex-voto

Ex`-vo"to
(?)
n.
pl. Ex-votos (-töz).
[L. ex out of, in accordance with + voto, abl. of votum a vow.]
An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.


word: Eyalet
definition:
Eyalet

E`ya*let"
(?)
n.
[Turk., fr. Ar. iyālah.]
Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.


word: Eyas
definition:
Eyas

Ey`as
(?)
n.
[F.niais fresh from the nest, a derivative fr. L. nidus nest. E. an eyas for a nias. See Nest, and cf. Nias, Jashawk.]
(Zoöl.)
A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself.
Shak J. H. Walsh


word: Eyas₂
definition:
Eyas

Ey"as
a.
Unfledged, or newly fledged.
[Obs.]

Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies,
His newly budded pinions to assay.
Spebser.


word: Eyasmusket
definition:
Eyasmusket

Ey"as*mus`ket
(?)
n.
[Eyas + muske the brid.]
An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk.
[Obs.]
Shak.


word: Eye
definition:
Eye

Eye
(ī)
n.
[Prob. fr. nye, an eye being for a nye. See Nye.]
(Zoöl.)
A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.


word: Eye₂
definition:
Eye

Eye
(ī)
n.
[OE. eghe, eighe, eie, eye, AS.  eáge; akin to OFries. āge, OS. &omacrga, D. oog, Ohg. ouga, G. auge, Icel. auga, Sw. öga, Dan. öie, Goth. aug&omacr; cf. OSlav. oko, Lith. akis, L. okulus, Gr. 'o`kkos, eye, 'o`sse, the two eyes, Skr. akshi. √10, 212.  Cf. Diasy, Ocular, Optic, Eyelet, Ogle.]
1.
The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the eyes are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.
&hand_; The essential parts of the eye are inclosed in a tough outer coat, the sclerotic, to which the muscles moving it are attached, and which in front changes into the transparent cornea. A little way back of cornea, the crystalline lens is suspended, dividing the eye into two unequal cavities, a smaller one in front filled with a watery fluid, the aqueous humor, and larger one behind filled with a clear jelly, the vitreous humor.  The sclerotic is lined with a highly pigmented membrane, the choroid, and this is turn is lined in the back half of the eyeball with the nearly transparent retina, in which the fibers of the optic nerve ramify. The choroid in front is continuous with the iris, which has a contractile opening in the center, the pupil, admitting light to the lens which brings the rays to a focus and forms an image upon the retina, where the light, falling upon delicate structures called rods and cones, causes them to stimulate the fibres of the optic nerve to transmit visual impressions to the brain.

2.
The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of a sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

3.
The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.

In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on.
Shak.

4.
The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.

We shell express our duty in his eye.
Shak.

Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes.
Shak.

5.
Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
eyes
Shak.

Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage.
Addison.

6.
That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance
(a)
(Zoöl.)
The spots on a feather, as of peacock.
(b)
The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.
(c)
The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as, the eye of a potato.
(d)
The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
(e)
A small loop to receive a hook; as, hooks and eyes on a dress.
(f)
The hole through the head of a needle.
(g)
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as, an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
(h)
The hole through the upper millstone.

7.
That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
eye
Shak.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts.
Milton.

8.
Tinge; shade of color.
[Obs.]

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.
Boyle.

By the eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central parts of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl.), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an opthalmologist or optometrist; -- formerly called an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch.), the circle in the center of volute. -- Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of heaven, the sun. “So gently shuts the eye of day.” Mrs. Barbauld. -- Eye of a ship, the foremost part in the bows of a ship, where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Half an eye, very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see a thing with half an eye; often figuratively. “Those who have but half an eye.” B. Jonson. -- To catch one's eye, to attract one's notice. -- To find favor in the eyes (of), to be graciously received and treated. -- To have an eye to, to pay particular attention to; to watch. “Have an eye to Cinna.” Shak. -- To keep an eye on, to watch. -- To set the eyes on, to see; to have a sight of. -- In the eye of the wind (Naut.), in a direction opposed to the wind; as, a ship sails in the eye of the wind.


word: Eye₃
definition:
Eye

Eye
(ī)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Eyed (īd); p. pr. & vb. n. Eying or Eyeing.]
To fix the eye on; to stare at; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportioned strength.
Milton.


word: Eye₄
definition:
Eye

Eye
v. i.
To appear; to look.
[Obs.]

My becomings kill me, when they do not
Eye well to you.
Shak.


word: eye-beaming
definition:
eye-beaming

eye-beaming
n.
a radiant glance of the eye; as, he pretended profundity by eye-beamings at people.


word: Eyebright
definition:
Eyebright

Eye"bright`
(?)
n.
(Bot.)
A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.


word: eyebrow pencil
definition:
eyebrow pencil

eye"brow pen"cil
(ī"brou pĕn"sĭl)
n.
a cosmetic pencil-like device used to apply a tint to the eyebrows, or darken lighter areas on the eyebrows.  It is sometimes used to create a “beauty mark” on the face.


word: eye-catcher
definition:
eye-catcher

eye"-catch`er
n.
An object or person that seizes the attention; as, her Statue of Liberty outfit was an eye-catcher.

Syn. -- attention-getter.


word: eye-catching
definition:
eye-catching

eye"-catch`ing
adj.
Seizing the attention; as, eye-catching posters; as, she wore an eye-catching low-cut gown.

Syn. -- attention-getting.


word: eyecup
definition:
eyecup

eye"cup`
(?)
n.
A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.


word: Eyed
definition:
Eyed

Eyed
(īd)
a.
Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as, sharp-eyed; blue-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.


word: eye-deceiving
definition:
eye-deceiving

eye-deceiving
adj.
creating the illusion of seeing reality.

Syn. -- trompe-l'oeil(prenominal).


word: eye dropper
definition:
eye dropper

eye" drop`per
(?)
n.
a small dropping tube for delivering drops of a liquid; same as dropper{2}.


word: eyeful
definition:
eyeful

eye"ful
(?)
n.
1.
a view of something remarkable; a completely satisfying view; as much as, or more than, one would want to see; as, he got an eyeful of burnt-out buildings on his tour of the south Bronx.

2.
an unusually attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.


word: Eyeglass
definition:
Eyeglass

Eye"glass`
(?)
n.
1.
A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision; -- usually used in the plural, referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, and worn resting on the bridge of the nose, to improve the vision. A single eyeglass in a frame is called a monocle.

2.
Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.

3.
The retina.
[Poetic]

4.
A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.


word: eyeglasses
definition:
eyeglasses

eye"glas`ses
n. pl.
a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, used for correcting defective vision.  Also called a pair of eyeglasses.  See also eyeglass{1}.

Syn. -- spectacles, specs, glasses.


word: Eyelash
definition:
Eyelash

Eye"lash`
(?)
n.
1.
The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

2.
A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.


word: Eyelet
definition:
Eyelet

Eye"let`
(ī"lĕt)
n.
[F. œillet, dim. of œil eye, fr. L. oculus. See Eye, and cf.  Oillet.]
1.
A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

2.
A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.

Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring.  See Eyelet, 2.


word: Eyeleteer
definition:
Eyeleteer

Eye`let*eer"
(?)
n.
A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.


word: Eyelid
definition:
Eyelid

Eye`lid"
(?)
n.
(Anat.)
The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.


word: eyeliner
definition:
eyeliner

eye"lin`er
(ī"lī`nẽr)
n.
a cosmetic powder of a dark tint, applied to the eyelid close to the base of the eyelashes to accentuate the eyes.  Compare eye shadow.


word: Eye-minded
definition:
Eye-minded

Eye"-mind`ed
a.
Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and memories mainly in the form of visual images.
Eye"-mind`ed*ness, n.


word: eye opener
definition:
eye opener

eye opener
n.
1.
That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence; something which causes one to suddenly understand what was not previously known.

2.
A drink of liquor, especially the first one in the morning.
[U. S. Slang]


word: eye-opening
definition:
eye-opening

eye-opening
a.
Causing one suddenly to learn or understand what was not previously known; as, an eye-opening look into the private machinations of the governor.


word: eyepatch
definition:
eyepatch

eye"patch`
n.
a protective covering, usually made of cloth, for an injured eye.

Syn. -- patch.


word: eye-piece
definition:
eye-piece

eyepiece

eye"piece`
eye"-piece`
(?)
n.
(Opt.)
The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a microscope, telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.

Syn. -- ocular.

Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called Campani's eyepiece. -- Positive eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, Ramsden's eyepiece. -- terrestrial, or Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.


word: Eye-saint
definition:
Eye-saint

Eye"-saint`
(?)
n.
An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.
[Obs.]

That's the eye-saint, I know,
Among young gallants.
Beau. & Fl.


word: Eyeservice
definition:
Eyeservice

Eye"serv`ice
(?)
n.
Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers.
Col. iii. 22.


word: eyeshadow
definition:
eyeshadow

eye shadow

eye" shad`ow, eye"shad`ow
(ī"shăd`&omacr)
n.
a cosmetic powder or cream of a dark tint, applied on the eyelids or just under the eyebrows to accentuate the eyes.  Compare eyeliner.


word: Eyeshot
definition:
Eyeshot

Eye"shot`
(?)
n.
Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.
Dryden.


word: Eyesight
definition:
Eyesight

Eye"sight`
(?)
n.
Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight.
Bp. Wilkins.


word: Eyesore
definition:
Eyesore

Eye"sore`
(?)
n.
Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.

Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman.
L'Estrange.


word: Eye-splice
definition:
Eye-splice

Eye"-splice`
(?)
n.
(Naut.)
A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.


word: Eye-spot
definition:
Eye-spot

Eye"-spot`
(?)
n.
(Zoöl.)
(a)
A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.
(b)
An eyelike spot of color.


word: Eye-spotted
definition:
Eye-spotted

Eye"-spot`ted
(?)
a.
Marked with spots like eyes.

Juno's bird, in her eye-spotted train.
Spenser.


word: Eyestalk
definition:
Eyestalk

Eye"stalk`
(?)
n.
(Zoöl.)
One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.


word: Eyestone
definition:
Eyestone

Eye"stone`
(ī"st&omacrn`)
n.
1.
A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidæ, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance.

2.
(Min.)
Eye agate. See under Eye.


word: Eyetooth
definition:
Eyetooth

Eye"tooth
(ī"tōth`)
n.
pl. Eyeteeth (ī"tēth`)
(Anat.)
A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
Teeth

To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]


word: Eyewitness
definition:
Eyewitness

Eye"wit`ness
(?)
n.
One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Pet. i. 16.


word: Eyen₂
definition:
Eyen

Eyne

{ Eyne (?), or Ey"en (?) }
n.
Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry.
Shak.

With such a plaintive gaze their eyne
Are fastened upwardly on mine.
Mrs. Browning.


word: Eyot
definition:
Eyot

Ey"ot
(ī"&obreve_;t or āt)
n.
[Ey (AS. īg or Icel. ey) + F. dim. termination -ot; cf. AS. īgeoð.  See Island, and cf. Ait.]
A little island in a river or lake. See Ait.
[Written also ait, ayt, ey, eyet, and eyght.]
Blackstone.


word: Eyra
definition:
Eyra

Ey"ra
(?)
n.
[Native South American name.]
(Zoöl.)
A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but with a more slender body and shorter legs.


word: Eyre
definition:
Eyre

Eyre
(âr)
n.
[OF. erre journey, march, way, fr. L. iter, itineris, a going, way, fr. the root of ire to go.  Cf. Errant, Itinerant, Issue.]
(O. Eng. Law)
A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

&hand_; They were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit, holding courts in the different counties.


word: Eyry
definition:
Eyry

Eyrie

{ Ey"rie, Ey"ry (ā"r&ybreve_; or ē"r&ybreve_;; 277) }
n.
pl. Ey"ries (-rĭz).
[See Aerie]
The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in a lofty place; aerie.

The eagle and the stork
On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build.
Milton.


word: F
definition:
F

F
(ĕf)
1.
F is the sixth letter of the English alphabet, and a nonvocal consonant. Its form and sound are from the Latin. The Latin borrowed the form from the Greek digamma _;, which probably had the value of English w consonant. The form and value of Greek letter came from the Phœnician, the ultimate source being probably Egyptian. Etymologically f is most closely related to p, k, v, and b; as in E. five, Gr. pe`nte; E. wolf, L. lupus, Gr. ly`kos; E. fox, vixen ; fragile, break; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

2.
(Mus.)
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F &sharp) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

F clef, the bass clef. See under Clef.


word: Fa
definition:
Fa

Fa
(fä)
n.
[It.]
(Mus.)
(a)
A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
(b)
The tone F.


word: Fabaceae
definition:
Fabaceae

Fabaceae
prop. n.
A large natural family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniacea; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae.

Syn. -- Leguminosae, family Leguminosae, family Fabaceae, legume family, pea family.


word: Fabaceous
definition:
Fabaceous

Fa*ba"ceous
(fȧ*bā"shŭs)
a.
[L. fabaceus, fr. faba bean.]
Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.


word: Fabella
definition:
Fabella

Fa*bel"la
(?)
n.
pl. Fabellae (-lē).
[NL., dim. of L. faba a bean.]
(Anat.)
One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.


word: Fabian
definition:
Fabian

Fa"bi*an
(?)
a.
[L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to Fabius.]
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.

Fabian policy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.


word: Fabian₂
definition:
Fabian

Fa"bi*an
a.
1.
Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia.

2.
Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation.
The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action.
William Clarke.


word: Fabiana
definition:
Fabiana

Fabiana
n.
a genus of South and Central American heathlike evergreen shrubs.

Syn. -- genus Fabiana.


word: Fabianism
definition:
Fabianism

Fabianism
n.
the principles and beliefs of or similar to those of the Fabian Society, advocating socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law.
[British]


word: Fable
definition:
Fable

Fa"ble
(fā"b'l)
n.
[F., fr. L. fabula, fr. fari to speak, say. See Ban, and cf. Fabulous, Fame.]
1.
A Feigned story or tale, intended to instruct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue.  See the Note under Apologue.

Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant.
Addison.

  A fable may have talking animals anthropomorphically cast as humans representing different character types, sometimes illustrating some moral principle; as, Aesop's Fables.

2.
The plot, story, or connected series of events, forming the subject of an epic or dramatic poem.

The moral is the first business of the poet; this being formed, he contrives such a design or fable as may be most suitable to the moral.
Dryden.

3.
Any story told to excite wonder; common talk; the theme of talk.
fables
1 Tim. iv. 7.

We grew
The fable of the city where we dwelt.
Tennyson.

4.
Fiction; untruth; falsehood.

It would look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods.
Addison.


word: Fable₂
definition:
Fable

Fa"ble
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fabled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fabling (?).]
To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction ; to write or utter what is not true.
Fables
Shak.

Vain now the tales which fabling poets tell.
Prior.

He fables, yet speaks truth.
M. Arnold.


word: Fable₃
definition:
Fable

Fa"ble
v. t.
To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

The hell thou fablest.
Milton.


word: Fabler
definition:
Fabler

Fa"bler
(fā"blẽr)
n.
A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
Bp. Hall.


word: Fabliau
definition:
Fabliau

Fa`bli`au"
(?)
n.
pl. Fabliaux (-o̝").
[F., fr. OF.fablel, dim. of fable a fable.]
(Fr. Lit.)
One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.


word: Fabric
definition:
Fabric

Fab"ric
(făb"rĭk)
n.
[L. fabrica fabric, workshop: cf. F. fabrique fabric. See Forge.]
1.
The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

2.
That which is fabricated
as:
(a)
Framework; structure; edifice; building.

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose like an exhalation.
Milton.
3.
The act of constructing; construction.
[R.]

Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabric of the churches for the poor.
Milman.

4.
Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

The whole vast fabric of society.
Macaulay.


word: Fabric₂
definition:
Fabric

Fab"ric
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fabricked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricking.]
To frame; to build; to construct.
[Obs.]
Fabric
J. Philips.


word: Fabricate
definition:
Fabricate

Fab"ri*cate
(?)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Fabricated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fabricating (?).]
[L. fabricatus, p. p. of fabricari, fabricare, to frame, build, forge, fr. fabrica. See Fabric, Farge.]
1.
To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

2.
To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

3.
To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.

Our books were not fabricated with an accomodation to prevailing usages.
Paley.


word: fabricated
definition:
fabricated

fabricated
adj.
formed or conceived by the fancy or imagination; as, a fabricated excuse for his absence.

Syn. -- fancied, fictional, fictitious, fictive, invented, made-up.


word: Fabrication
definition:
Fabrication

Fab`ri*ca"tion
(?)
n.
[L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.]
1.
The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.
Burke.

2.
That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.


word: Fabricator
definition:
Fabricator

Fab"ri*ca`tor
(?)
n.
[L.]
One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes.

The fabricator of the works of Ossian.
Mason.


word: Fabrile
definition:
Fabrile

Fab"rile
(?)
a.
[L. fabrilis, fr. faber workman. See Forge.]
Pertaining to a workman, or to work in stone, metal, wood etc.; as, fabrile skill.


word: Fabulist
definition:
Fabulist

Fab"u*list
(?)
n.
[Cf. F. fabuliste, fr. L. fabula. See Fable.]
One who invents or writes fables.


word: Fabulize
definition:
Fabulize

Fab"u*lize
(?)
v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Fabulized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fabulizing (?).]
[Cf. F. fabuliser. See Fable.]
To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
G. S. Faber.


word: Fabulosity
definition:
Fabulosity

Fab`u*los"i*ty
(?)
n.
[L. fabulositas: cf. F. fabulosité.]
1.
Fabulousness.
[R.]
Abp. Abbot.

2.
A fabulous or fictitious story.
[R.]
Sir T. Browne.


word: Fabulous
definition:
Fabulous

Fab"u*lous
(făb"&uuptack_;*lŭs)
a.
[L. fabulosus; cf. F. fabuleux. See Fable.]
1.
Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

The fabulous birth of Minerva.
Chesterfield.

2.
Beyond belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.
Macaulay.

3.
Exceptionally good; extremely pleasing.
[informal]

Fabulous age, that period in the history of a nation of which the only accounts are myths and unverified legends; as, the fabulous age of Greece and Rome.


word: Faburden
definition:
Faburden

Fab"ur*den
(făb"ŭr*den)
n.
[F. faux bourdon. See False, and Burden a verse.]
1.
(Mus.)
(a)
A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.
(b)
A succession of chords of the sixth.
[Obs.]

2.
A monotonous refrain.
[Obs.]
Holland.


word: Fac
definition:
Fac

Fac
(făk)
n.
[Abbrev. of facsimile.]
A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.
Brande & C.


word: Facade
definition:
Facade

Fa`çade"
(fȧ`sȧd" or fȧ`sād")
n.
[F., fr. It. facciata, fr. faccia face, L. facies. See Face.]
(Arch.)
The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its façade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.


word: Face
definition:
Face

Face
(fās)
n.
[F., from L. facies form, shape, face, perh. from facere to make (see Fact); or perh. orig. meaning appearance, and from a root meaning to shine, and akin to E. fancy.  Cf. Facetious.]
1.
The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.

A mist . . . watered the whole face of the ground.
Gen. ii. 6.

Lake Leman wooes me with its crystal face.
Byron.

2.
That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.

3.
(Mach.)
(a)
The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley; the principal flat surface of a part or object.
(b)
That part of the acting surface of a cog in a cog wheel, which projects beyond the pitch line.
(c)
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.

4.
(Print.)
(a)
The upper surface, or the character upon the surface, of a type, plate, etc.
(b)
The style or cut of a type or font of type.

5.
Outside appearance; surface show; look; external aspect, whether natural, assumed, or acquired.

To set a face upon their own malignant design.
Milton.

This would produce a new face of things in Europe.
Addison.

We wear a face of joy, because
We have been glad of yore.
Wordsworth.

6.
That part of the head, esp. of man, in which the eyes, cheeks, nose, and mouth are situated; visage; countenance.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
Gen. iii. 19.

7.
Cast of features; expression of countenance; look; air; appearance.

We set the best faceon it we could.
Dryden.

8.
(Astrol.)
Ten degrees in extent of a sign of the zodiac.
Chaucer.

9.
Maintenance of the countenance free from abashment or confusion; confidence; boldness; shamelessness; effrontery.

This is the man that has the face to charge others with false citations.
Tillotson.

10.
Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.

11.
Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.

The Lord make his face to shine upon thee.
Num. vi. 25.

My face [favor] will I turn also from them.
Ezek. vii. 22.

12.
(Mining)
The end or wall of the tunnel, drift, or excavation, at which work is progressing or was last done.

13.
(Com.)
The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount; most commonly called face value.
McElrath.

&hand_; Face is used either adjectively or as part of a compound; as, face guard or face-guard; face cloth; face plan or face-plan; face hammer.

Face ague (Med.), a form of neuralgia, characterized by acute lancinating pains returning at intervals, and by twinges in certain parts of the face, producing convulsive twitches in the corresponding muscles; -- called also tic douloureux. -- Face card, one of a pack of playing cards on which a human face is represented; the king, queen, or jack. -- Face cloth, a cloth laid over the face of a corpse. -- Face guard, a mask with windows for the eyes, worn by workman exposed to great heat, or to flying particles of metal, stone, etc., as in glass works, foundries, etc. -- Face hammer, a hammer having a flat face. -- Face joint (Arch.), a joint in the face of a wall or other structure. -- Face mite (Zool.), a small, elongated mite (Demdex folliculorum), parasitic in the hair follicles of the face. -- Face mold, the templet or pattern by which carpenters, etc., outline the forms which are to be cut out from boards, sheet metal, etc. -- Face plate. (a) (Turning) A plate attached to the spindle of a lathe, to which the work to be turned may be attached. (b) A covering plate for an object, to receive wear or shock. (c) A true plane for testing a dressed surface. Knight. -- Face wheel. (Mach.) (a) A crown wheel. (b) A wheel whose disk face is adapted for grinding and polishing; a lap. -- face value the value written on a financial instrument; same as face{13}.  Also used metaphorically, to mean apparent value; as, to take his statemnet at its face value.

 Cylinder face (Steam Engine), the flat part of a steam cylinder on which a slide valve moves. -- Face of an anvil, its flat upper surface. -- Face of a bastion (Fort.), the part between the salient and the shoulder angle. -- Face of coal (Mining), the principal cleavage plane, at right angles to the stratification. -- Face of a gun, the surface of metal at the muzzle. -- Face of a place (Fort.), the front comprehended between the flanked angles of two neighboring bastions. Wilhelm. -- Face of a square (Mil.), one of the sides of a battalion when formed in a square. -- Face of a watch, clock, compass, card etc., the dial or graduated surface on which a pointer indicates the time of day, point of the compass, etc. -- Face to face. (a) In the presence of each other; as, to bring the accuser and the accused face to face. (b) Without the interposition of any body or substance. “Now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face.” 1 Cor. xiii. 12. (c) With the faces or finished surfaces turned inward or toward one another; vis à vis; -- opposed to back to back. -- To fly in the face of, to defy; to brave; to withstand. -- To make a face, to distort the countenance; to make a grimace; -- often expressing dislike, annoyance, or disagreement. Shak.


word: Face₂
definition:
Face

Face
(fās)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Faced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Facing (?).]
1.
To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.

I'll face
This tempest, and deserve the name of king.
Dryden.

2.
To Confront impudently; to bully.

I will neither be facednor braved.
Shak.

3.
To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park; some of the seats on the train faced backward.

He gained also with his forces that part of Britain which faces Ireland.
Milton.

4.
To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon; as, a building faced with marble.

5.
To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.

6.
To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.

7.
(Mach.)
To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

8.
To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.

To face down, to put down by bold or impudent opposition. “He faced men down.” Prior. -- To face (a thing) out, to persist boldly or impudently in an assertion or in a line of conduct.  “That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.” Shak. -- to face the music to admit error and accept reprimand or punishment as a consequence for having failed or having done something wrong; to willingly experience an unpleasant situation out of a sense of duty or obligation; as, as soon as he broke the window with the football, Billy knew he would have to face the music.


word: Face₃
definition:
Face

Face
v. i.
1.
To carry a false appearance; to play the hypocrite.
face
Spenser.

2.
To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.

Face about, man; a soldier, and afraid!
Dryden.

3.
To present a face or front.


word: face lift
definition:
face lift

face lift
n.
1.
an operation to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from a person's face.

Syn. -- face lifting, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty.

2.
a renovation that improves the outward appearance, as of a building.

Syn. -- face lifting.


word: Facer
definition:
Facer

Fa"cer
(fā"sẽr)
n.
1.
One who faces; one who puts on a false show; a bold-faced person.
[Obs.]

There be no greater talkers, nor boasters, nor fasers.
Latimer.

2.
A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
[Collog.]

I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer.
C. Kingsley.
3.
a serious difficulty with which one is suddenly faced.
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[obsolescent Briticism]


word: face-saving
definition:
face-saving

face-saving
adj.
1.
allowing one to maintain one's dignity or prestige; designed to avoid admitting something embarrassing; as, a face-saving compromise; -- of actions.


word: Facet
definition:
Facet

Fac"et
(?)
n.
[F. facette, dim. of face face. See Face.]
1.
A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.
[Written also facette.]

2.
(Anat.)
A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

3.
(Arch.)
The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.

4.
(Zool.)
One of the numerous small eyes which make up the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.


word: Facet₂
definition:
Facet

Fac"et
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Faceted; p. pr. & vb. n. Faceting.]
To cut facets or small faces upon; as, to facet a diamond.


word: Facete
definition:
Facete

Fa*cete"
(?)
a.
[L. facetus elegant, fine, facetious; akin to facies. See Face, and cf. Facetious.]
Facetious; witty; humorous.
[Archaic]
facete
Jer. Taylor.

“How to interpose” with a small, smart remark, sentiment facete, or unctuous anecdote.
Prof. Wilson.


word: Facetiae
definition:
Facetiae

Fa*ce"ti*æ
(_;)
n. pl.
[L., fr. facetus. See Facete.]
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.


word: face time
definition:
face time

face" time`
(fās" tīm`)
n.
Time spent speaking with a person face-to-face; -- contrasted with time spent communicating by electronic media, such as telephone or e-mail, or via written communications; as, the chief of staff has the most face time with the president.
[Recent]


word: Facetious
definition:
Facetious

Fa*ce"tious
(?)
a.
[Cf. F. facétieux. See Facetiæ.]
1.
Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.

2.
Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply.


word: face-to-face
definition:
face-to-face

face-to-face
adj.
1.
without intervening persons; involving direct communication between persons in each other's presence; -- of conversation or confrontation; as, face-to-face negotiations.

Syn. -- person-to-person.

2.
having the front parts facing each other.


word: Facework
definition:
Facework

Face"work`
(?)
n.
The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.


word: Facial
definition:
Facial

Fa"cial
(?)
a.
[LL. facialis, fr. L. facies face : cf. F. facial.]
Of or pertaining to the face; as, the facial artery, vein, or nerve.
Fa"cial*ly, adv.

Facial angle (Anat.), the angle, in a skull, included between a straight line (ab, in the illustrations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.


word: Faciend
definition:
Faciend

Fa"ci*end
(?)
n.
[From neut. of L. faciendus, gerundive of facere to do.]
(Mach.)
The multiplicand. See Facient, 2.


word: Facient
definition:
Facient

Fa"cient
(?)
n.
[L. faciens, -- entis, p. pr. of facere to make, do. See Fact.]
1.
One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hacket.

2.
(Mach.)
(a)
One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
(b)
The multiplier.

&hand_; The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but is either some specified operation, or, in general, any mathematical operation. See Multiplication.


word: Facies
definition:
Facies

Fa"ci*es
(?)
n.
[L., from, face. See Face.]

1.
The anterior part of the head; the face.

2.
(Biol.)
The general aspect or habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.

3.
(Zool.)
The face of a bird, or the front of the head, excluding the bill.

Facies Hippocratica. (Med.) See Hippocratic.


word: Facile
definition:
Facile

Fac"ile
(?)
a.
[L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F. facile. Srr Fact, and cf. Faculty.]
1.
Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable or attainable with little labor.

Order . . . will render the work facile and delightful.
Evelyn.

2.
Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered.

The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
Milton.

3.
Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty, austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet.
B. Jonson.

4.
Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible.

Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve,
Lost Paradise, deceived by me.
Milton.

This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway.
Prof. Wilson.

5.
Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen.


word: Facilitate
definition:
Facilitate

Fa*cil"i*tate
(fȧ*sĭl"ĭ*tāt)
v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Facilitated (fȧ*sĭl"ĭ*tā`tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Facilitating (fȧ*sĭl"ĭ*tā`tĭng).]
[Cf. F. faciliter. See Facility.]
To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.

To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for.
I. Taylor.


