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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Ex-ăn'gu-lous, a.p. 473Having no corners; without angles. [Rare.]
  2. Ex-ăn'i-mate, a.p. 473Destitute of life; inanimate; dead. “With caresses exanimate.” Spencer. 2. Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. “Pale wretch exanimate by love.” Thomson.
  3. Ex-ăn'ĭ-māte, v. t.p. 473To render destitute of life; to kill. 2. To deprive of animation; to dishearten.
  4. Ex-ăn'/i-mā'/tion, n.p. 473Deprivation of life or of spirits. [Rare.] Bailey.
  5. Ex-ăn′i-mōŭs, a.p. 473Lifeless; dead. [Obs.] Johnson.
  6. Ex-ăn'tha-lōse', n.p. 473(Min.) A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of soda, and occurring as an efflorescence in certain lavas, and also in other situations; native sulphate of soda.
  7. Ex-ăn'them, n.p. 473Same as EXANTHEMA.
  8. Ĕx'an-thē'mȧ, n.p. 473(Med.) An efflorescence or redness of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, small-pox, scarlatina, and the like diseases;—sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.
  9. Ex-ăn'the-măt'ic or Ĕx'an-thĕm'a-tous, a.p. 473Relating to exanthem; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption. Dunglison.
  10. Ex'an-thē'sis, n.p. 473(Med.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
  11. Ex-ăn'ṭlāte, v. t.p. 473To take out; to draw up and bring forth, as water from a well. [Obs.] 2. To spend; to exhaust. [Obs.] “Wearied and exantlated.” Boyle.
  12. Ĕx'ant-lā'tion, n.p. 473The act of drawing out; exhaustion. [Obs.] Browne.
  13. Ex'a-rāte, v. t.p. 473To plow up; hence, to mark as if by a plow; to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.
  14. Ex'a-rā'tion, n.p. 473The act of plowing; hence, the act of marking, as if with a plow, or of inscribing or writing. [Obs.] Bailey.
  15. Ex'arch, n.p. 473A chief or leader; hence, a viceroy of the Byzantine empire; a bishop, as superior over surrounding bishops; and more recently, an inspector of the clergy under the Greek patriarch. J. Murdock.
  16. Ex-ärch'ate or Ex'ar-ehate, n.p. 473The office, dignity, or administration of an exarch. Bp. Taylor.
  17. Ex-är'-il-late, a.p. 473(Bot.) Having no aril;—said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.
  18. Ex/ar-tic/u-lā'tion, n.p. 473Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.
  19. Ex-ăs'per-āte, v. t.p. 473To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to excite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his passions. To exasperate you to make your dormouse valor. Shak. 2. To make…
  20. Ex-ăs'per-ate, a.p. 473Exasperated; imbittered; provoked; inflamed. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year. Sets spinning. E. B. Browning.
  21. Ex-ăs'per-ā'ter, n.p. 473One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
  22. Ex-ăs'/pĕr-ā'tion, n.p. 473The act of exasperating, or the state of being exasperated; irritation; provocation. “The exasperation of his spirits.” South. 2. Increase of violence or malignity; exacerbation, as of a disease.…
  23. Ex·au'tor-āte, v. t.p. 473Same as EXAUTHORATE. [Obs.]
  24. Ex-auc'tor-ā'tion, n.p. 473Same as EXAUTHORATION.
  25. Ex-au'gu-rāte, v. t.p. 473To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhallow. [Obs.] Holland.
  26. Ex-au'gu-rā'tion, n.p. 473The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.] Holland.
  27. Ex-au’thor-āte, v. t.p. 473To deprive of authority; to depose from an office; to discharge from service. [Obs.] “Exauthorated for unworthiness.” Bp. Taylor.
  28. Ex-au'thor-ā'tion, n.p. 473Deprivation of authority; dismissal from service, office, or dignity; degradation. [Obs.] Bp. Taylor.
  29. Ex-au'thor-ize, v. t.p. 473To deprive of authority. [Obs.] Selden.
  30. Ex-cāl'çe-āte, v. t.p. 473To deprive of shoes; to make barefooted. [Obs.] Chambers.
  31. Ex-ēl'çe-ā'tion, n.p. 473The act of excalceating, or depriving of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.
  32. Ex'cal-fāe'tion, n.p. 473The act of making warm; calefaction. [Obs.] Blount.
  33. Ex′cal-făc′tive, a.p. 473Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Colgrave.
  34. Ex'cal-fāc'to-ry, a.p. 473Heating; warming. [Obs.] “A special excalfactory virtue.” Holland.
  35. Ex-cāmb' or Ex-cām'bie, v. t.p. 473(Scots Law.) To exchange; — used with reference to transfers of land.
  36. Ex-cām'bi-ōn, n.p. 473(Scots Law.)
  37. Ex-cām'bi-ūmp. 473Exchange of lands; — rarely used in reference to exchanges of other kinds of property.
  38. Ex'can-dēs'çence, n.p. 473A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [Rare.] 2. Violent anger; a growing angry. [Obs.] Blount.
  39. Ĕx'can-dĕs'cent, a.p. 473White or glowing with heat. [Rare.]
  40. Ex'can-tā'tion, n.p. 473Disenchantment by a counter-charm. [Obs.] Gayton.
  41. Ex-eār'nāte, v. t.p. 473To deprive or clear of flesh. [Obs.] Grew.
  42. Ex'car-nā'tion, n.p. 473The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; — opposed to incarnation. 2. (Anat.) The act or process of separating the blood-vessels, after injection, from the parts by which they are…
  43. Ex-cār'ni-fi-cāte or Ex'car-nī'fi-cāte, v. t.p. 473To clear of flesh; to excarnate. More.
  44. Ex-căr/ni-fi-cā/tion, n.p. 473The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.
  45. Ĕx'ca-vāte, v. t.p. 473To hollow out; to form a cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging, or the like; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. 2. To form by hollowing; to shape as a cavity…
  46. Ex'ca-vā'tion, n.p. 473The act of excavating or of making hollow, by cutting, wearing, or scooping out the interior substance or part of a thing. 2. A hollow or cavity formed by removing the interior. “A winding…
  47. Ĕx'ca-vā'tor, n.p. 473One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; especially, a machine for excavating.
  48. Ex-cāve′, v. t.p. 473To hollow out; to excavate. [Obs.] Cockram.
  49. Ex-cē'cāte, v. t.p. 473To make blind; to blind. [Obs.] Cockram.
  50. Ēx'çe-cā'tion, n.p. 473The act of blinding, or making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.
  51. Ex-cēd'ent, n.p. 473Excess. [Obs.]
  52. Ex-ceed′, v. t.p. 473To pass or go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, or weight; one offender exceeds another in villainy. Name the time…
  53. Ex-ceed′, v. i.p. 474To go too far; to pass the proper bounds; to go over any given limit, number, or measure. “In our reverence to whom we can not possibly exceed.” Bp. Taylor. Forty stripes he may give him, and not…
  54. Ex-ceed'a-ble, a.p. 474Capable of exceeding or surpassing. [Obs.] Sherwood.
  55. Ex-cēed'er, n.p. 474One who exceeds or passes the bounds of fitness. Montagu.
  56. Ex-ceed'ing, adv.p. 474In a very great degree; unusually; surpassingly; transcendently; as, exceeding rich. The Genoese were exceeding powerful by sea. Raleigh.
  57. Ex-ceed'ing-ly, adv.p. 474To a very great degree; in a degree beyond what is usual; greatly; very much.
  58. Ex-ceed'ing-ness, n.p. 474Greatness in quantity, extent, or duration. [Obs.] Sidney.
  59. Ex-cĕl′, v. t.p. 474To go beyond; to exceed; to surpass, especially in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo. Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. Prior. 2. To exceed or go…
  60. Ex-cĕl′, v. i.p. 474To have good qualities, or to perform meritorious actions, in an unusual degree; to surpass others; to be superior; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics, or painting. All horsemen, in which fight…