Same as Expectorant.

To expedite; to hasten.

To hasten; to expedite.

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.

That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

An expedient.

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.

To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Quality of being expedite.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

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.

Performing with speed.

To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.

Capable of being expelled or driven out.

One who, or that which, expels.

any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.

To be laid out, used, or consumed.

nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Full of expense; costly; chargeable.

Without cost or expense.

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

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.

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.

One who experiences.

Experienced.

Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.

The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.

One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience.

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.

One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.

To make experiments (upon); to experiment.

By experiment; by experience or trial.

Relying on experiment or experience. One who relies on experiment or experience.

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

Experimental; of the nature of experiment.

An experimenter.

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

An experimenter.

A waking up or arousing.

To experience.

In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Worthy of being wished for; desirable.

Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

Terminated.

The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

An expiator.

One who makes expiation or atonement.

Of an expiatory nature; expiatory.

Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.

That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

One who expires or is expiring.

The act of expiring 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. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

bearing a date after which it is no longer valid or salable; -- of a security, option, or perishable item.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

To emit the breath.

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.

Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

Expiration.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.

The act of expiscating; a fishing.

Tending to fish out; searching out

To give an explanation.

Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

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.

Explanatory.

The quality of being explanatory.

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

To explain; to unfold.

Accomplishment; fulfillment.

A word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.

In the manner of an expletive.

Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.

Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Quality of being explicable.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open.

The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.

One who unfolds or explains; an expounder; an explainer.

Explicative.

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.

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness.

To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

One who or that which explodes.

A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

The act of exploiting or utilizing.

tending to exploit or make use of.

The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement.

That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

To explore.

The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries physical examination.

Exploratory.

One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative.

To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.

The act of exploring; exploration.

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration.

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.

An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, TNT, dynamite, or nitro-glycerine.

In an explosive manner.

See Exspoliation.

To polish thoroughly.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil.

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