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Expressman

A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon.

Expressness

The state or quality of being express; definiteness.

Expressure

The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation.

Exprobrate

To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid.

Expropriate

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

expropriated

taken out of the possession of another and transferred to one's own use often without permission; as, the expropriated land was developed into a public playground.

Expropriation

The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.

Expugn

To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.

Expulsion

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

Expulsive

Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.

Expunction

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.

Expunge

To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.

expunging

deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.

Expurgate

To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.

expurgated

having material deleted; -- of books; as, at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions.

Expurgation

The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.

Expurgatory

Serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.

Exquisite

One who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

Exquisitely

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.

Exsanguinity

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.

Exscind

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.

Exscriptural

Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

Exscutellate

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

Exsert

To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.

Exserted Exsert

Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.

Exsertile

Capable of being thrust out or protruded.

Exsiccant

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up. An exsiccant medicine.

Exsiccate

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up.

Exsiccation

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.

Exsiccative

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

Exsiccator

An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

Exstrophy

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

Exsuccous

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

Extancy

The state of rising above others; a projection.

Extant

Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

Extemporaneous

Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; ad-lib; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.

Extempore

Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. Done or performed extempore. Speaking or writing done extempore.

Extemporization

The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.

Extemporize

To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.

Extend

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

Extender

One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

Extendible

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Extense

Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise.

Extensibility

The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.

Extensible

Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.

Extensile

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.

Extension

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

Extensive

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

Extensively

To a great extent; widely; largely; as, a story is extensively circulated.

Extensiveness

The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.

Extensometer

An instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

Extensor

A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.

Extent

Space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.

extenuating

serving or tending to reduce the severity of guilt or blameworthiness; as, extenuating circumstances.

Extenuation

The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.

Exterior

The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.

exterminable

capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out.

Extermination

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

Exterminatory

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate.

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