One who exhorts or incites.

Disinterred.

The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.

To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

See Exsiccate.

See Exsiccation.

Exigency.

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.

See Exigenter.

Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

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.

That may be exacted; repairable.

Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

Small; slender; thin; fine.

Banishment.

Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

A sudden springing or leaping out.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.

An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.

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.

Existence.

Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

Having existence.

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.

One who exists.

Capable of existence.

Esteem; opinion; reputation.

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.

The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

Destructive; fatal.

One of a breed of horned sheep of Devonshire, England, having white legs and face and black nostrils. They are esp. valuable for mutton.

Situated or arising outside of the heart; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull. The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.

A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.

To deprive of eyes.

Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

See Exode.

the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth.

a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth.

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.

Exodus; withdrawal.

Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.

The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.

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.

Arising or growing from without; exogenous.

same as exogenous.

derived from or originating outside; pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.

A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

See Exsolution.

To loose; to pay.

An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.

To unload; to disburden; to discharge.

same as exculpated.

Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.

Same as Exophthalmia.

Exophthalmia.

Not sheathed in another leaf.

See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.

The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

Very desirable.

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.

To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.

Entreaty.

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.

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.

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

To go out of the track; to deviate.

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.

An exorcist.

The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.

Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.

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.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

Ornament; decoration; embellishment.

Rising; relating to the east.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.

Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.

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.

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.

See Exosmose.

Pertaining to exosmose.

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.

Boneless.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.

The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.

That which is obvious, public, or common.

The tissue which fills the interspaces between the cost/ of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

The outer coat of the anther.

Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Foreign; not native; exotic.

The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

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.

able to expand or to be expanded.

increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of contracted.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

same as expandable.

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

To expand.

The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

Expansible.

The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.