To deprive of animation or of life.

Deprivation of life or of spirits.

Lifeless; dead.

Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Same as Exanthema.

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.

Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

To exhaust or wear out.

Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write.

Act of plowing; also, act of writing.

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.

The office or the province of an exarch.

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

Luxation; the dislocation of a joint.

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.

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

extremely annoying or displeasing.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.

See Exauthorate.

See Exauthoration.

To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow.

The act of exaugurating; desecration.

To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge.

Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration.

To deprive of authority.

To deprive of shoes.

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.

A heating or warming; calefaction.

Serving to heat; warming.

Heating; warming.

The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.

White or glowing with heat.

Disenchantment by a countercharm.

To deprive or clear of flesh.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

To clear of flesh; to excarnate.

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.

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.

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

To excavate.

To blind.

The act of making blind.

Excess.

To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

Capable of exceeding or surpassing.

One who exceeds.

In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.

To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.

To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

Excellently; eminently; exceedingly.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Out of the center.

Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.

Unless; if it be not so that.

Making exception.

With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.

The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.

One who takes exceptions or makes objections.

Without exception.

Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.

That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.

Not exceptional; usual.

One who takes exceptions.

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

Brainless.

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.

Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.

To pick out.

An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.

The act of excerpting or selecting.

That excerpts, selects, or chooses.

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

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.

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

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.

To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.

The quality or state of being exchangeable.

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.

By way of exchange.

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.

See Escheat.

See Escheator.

To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

To cut off.

An exceptor.

The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.

Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

being easily excited.

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.

To excite.

The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.

Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.

A kind of discarder.

Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.

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.

Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.

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.

One who, or that which, excites.

Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

That which excites; an excitant.

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

Excito-motory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

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.