Excentrical (a.) Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical.
Excentrical (a.) One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center.
Excentricity () Same as Eccentricity.
Excepted (imp. & p. p.) of Except
Excepting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Except
Except (v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
Except (v. t.) To object to; to protest against.
Except (v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
Except (prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
Except (conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.
Exceptant (a.) Making exception.
Excepting (prep. & conj., but properly a participle) With rejection or exception of; excluding; except.
Exception (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
Exception (n.) That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
Exception (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.
Exceptionable (a.) Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Exceptional (a.) Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.
Exceptioner (n.) One who takes exceptions or makes objections.
Exceptionless (a.) Without exception.
Exceptious (a.) Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious.
Exceptive (a.) That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition.
Exceptless (a.) Not exceptional; usual.
Exceptor (n.) One who takes exceptions.
Excerebration (n.) The act of removing or beating out the brains.
Excerebrose (a.) Brainless.
Excern (v. t.) To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration.
Excernent (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.
Excerp (a.) To pick out.
Excerpted (imp. & p. p.) of Excerpt
Excerpting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excerpt
Excerpt (v. t.) To select; to extract; to cite; to quote.
Excerpt (n.) An extract; a passage selected or copied from a book or record.
Excerption (n.) The act of excerpting or selecting.
Excerption (n.) That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Excerptive (a.) That excerpts, selects, or chooses.
Excerptor (n.) One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.
Excess (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
Excess (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
Excess (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
Excessive (a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
Exchange (n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
Exchange (n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another; as, an exchange of grief for joy, or of a scepter for a sword, and the like; also, the act of giving and receiving reciprocally; as, an exchange of civilities or views.
Exchange (n.) The thing given or received in return; esp., a publication exchanged for another.
Exchange (n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.
Exchange (n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple.
Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change.
Exchanged (imp. & p. p.) of Exchange
Exchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exchange
Exchange (n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent; -- usually followed by for before the thing received.
Exchange (n.) To part with for a substitute; to lay aside, quit, or resign (something being received in place of the thing parted with); as, to exchange a palace for cell.
Exchange (n.) To give and receive reciprocally, as things of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats.
Exchange (v. i.) To be changed or received in exchange for; to pass in exchange; as, dollar exchanges for ten dimes.
Exchangeability (n.) The quality or state of being exchangeable.
Exchangeable (a.) Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
Exchangeable (a.) Available for making exchanges; ratable.
Exchangeably (adv.) By way of exchange.
Exchanger (n.) One who exchanges; one who practices exchange.
Excheat (n.) See Escheat.
Excheator (n.) See Escheator.
Exchequer (n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
Exchequer (n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
Exchequered (imp. & p. p.) of Exchequer
Exchequering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exchequer
Exchequer (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Excide (v. t.) To cut off.
Excipient (v. t.) Taking an exception.
Excipient (n.) An exceptor.
Excipient (n.) An inert or slightly active substance used in preparing remedies as a vehicle or medium of administration for the medicinal agents.
Exciple (n.) Alt. of Excipulum
Excipulum (n.) The outer part of the fructification of most lichens.
Excisable (a.) Liable or subject to excise; as, tobacco in an excisable commodity.
Excise (n.) In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
Excise (n.) That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
Excised (imp. & p. p.) of Excise
Excising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excise
Excise (v. t.) To lay or impose an excise upon.
Excise (v. t.) To impose upon; to overcharge.
Excise (v. t.) To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
Excisemen (pl. ) of Exciseman
Exciseman (n.) An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
Excision (n.) The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.
Excision (n.) The act of cutting off from the church; excommunication.
Excision (n.) The removal, especially of small parts, with a cutting instrument.
Excitability (n.) The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
Excitability (n.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.
Excitable (a.) Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
Excitant (a.) Tending to excite; exciting.
Excitant (n.) An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.
Excitate (v. t.) To excite.
Excitation (n.) The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Excitation (n.) The act of producing excitement (stimulation); also, the excitement produced.
Excitative (a.) Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
Excitator (n.) A kind of discarder.
Excitatory (a.) Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
Excited (imp. & p. p.) of Excite
exciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excite
Excite (v. t.) To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a person, the spirits, the passions; to excite a mutiny or insurrection; to excite heat by friction.
Excite (v. t.) To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.
Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.