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.

In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

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.

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.

Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

Outcry; clamor.

One who exclaims.

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.

Exclamatory.

Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker.

A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.

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.

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.

Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

The character, manner, or principles of an exclusionist.

One who would exclude another from some right or privilege; esp., one of the anti-popish politicians of the time of Charles II.

One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.

Quality of being exclusive.

The act or practice of excluding being exclusive; exclusiveness.

One who favor or practices any from of exclusiveness or exclusivism.

Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.

To boil out; to produce by boiling.

To cogitate.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.

Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.

One who has been excommunicated.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

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.

One who excommunicates.

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.

The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.

To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.

The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

Capable of being discharged by spitting.

To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.

Act of spitting out.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Of or pertaining to excrement.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.

To void excrement.

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.

Excrescence.

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence.

Matters to be excreted.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.

A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human f/ces.

The act of excreting.

Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion.

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

Liable to torment.

To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body.

Torturing; racking.

The act of inflicting agonizing pain, or the state of being thus afflicted; that which excruciates; torture.

A keeping watch.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.