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.

To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit.

freed from any question of guilt; having suspicion of guilt eliminated.

The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that which exculpates; excuse.

To run out or forth; to extend.

Running or flowing out 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.

To journey or pass thought.

One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.

A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.

Excuse; apology.

One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist.

Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

The act of excusing, apologizing, exculpating, pardoning, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.

Excuse.

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.

To shake off; to discard.

The act of excusing; seizure by law.

A license for absence from a college or a religious house.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

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.

The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

A word used for cursing; an imprecatory word or expression.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. A formulary of execrations.

To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect.

See Exsection.

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument.

To do one's work; to act one's part or purpose.

One who performs or carries into effect. See Executor.

putting a condemned person to death.

The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

One who executes; an executer.

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

Of or pertaining to an executive.

The office of an executor.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive.

An executrix.

A woman exercising the functions of an executor.

Eating out; consuming.

A room in a public building, furnished with seats.

Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

An exegetist.

Pertaining to exegesis; tending to unfold or illustrate; explanatory; expository.

The science of interpretation or exegesis.

One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

Exemplary.

In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitation or for warning; by way of example.

The state or quality of being exemplary; fitness to be an example.

Exemplariness.

An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing.

That can be exemplified.

The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.

One who exemplifies by following a pattern.

To show or illustrate by example.

clarifying by use of examples.

To remove; to set apart.

That may be exempted.

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.

Separable.

To take out the bowels or entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes.

Act of exenterating.

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.

Of or pertaining to funerals; funereal.

Funereal.

A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Practicing; professional.

That may be exercised, used, or exerted; as, the stock options are exercisable for only five years from the date of issue.

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.

One who exercises.

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

exercise; practice; use.

a stationary bike for exercising.

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.

To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

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.

Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.

Exertion.

The act of eating out or through.

To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.

A boiling up; effervescence.

Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.

To remove scales, lamin/, or splinters from the surface of.

The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

Having the power of causing exfoliation. An exfoliative agent.

Capable of being exhaled or evaporated.

Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish.

Exhalation.

Exhalation.

breathing out; exhalation{1}.

The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.