Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 65

Exhaust (a.) Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy.

Exhaust (a.) Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work.

Exhaust (n.) The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.

Exhaust (n.) The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.

Exhauster (n.) One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out.

Exhaustibility (n.) Capability of being exhausted.

Exhaustible (a.) Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended.

Exhausting (a.) Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors.

Exhaustion (n.) The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

Exhaustion (n.) The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.

Exhaustion (n.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.

Exhaustive (a.) Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.

Exhaustless (a.) Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.

Exhaustment (n.) Exhaustion; drain.

Exhausture (n.) Exhaustion.

Exhedra (n.) See Exedra.

Exheredate (v. t.) To disinherit.

Exheredation (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor.

Exhereditation (n.) A disinheriting; disherison.

Exhibited (imp. & p. p.) of Exhibit

Exhibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhibit

Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.

Exhibit (v. t.) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.

Exhibit (v. t.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

Exhibit (n.) Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

Exhibit (n.) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.

Exhibiter (n.) One who exhibits; one who presents a petition, charge or bill.

Exhibition (n.) The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

Exhibition (n.) That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.

Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars.

Exhibition (n.) The act of administering a remedy.

Exhibitioner (n.) One who has a pension or allowance granted for support.

Exhibitive (a.) Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory.

Exhibitor (n.) One who exhibits.

Exhibitory (a.) Exhibiting; publicly showing.

Exhilarant (a.) Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.

Exhilarant (n.) That which exhilarates.

Exhilarated (imp. & p. p.) of Exhilarate

Exilarating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhilarate

Exhilarate (v. t.) To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a man.

Exhilarate (v. i.) To become joyous.

Exhilarating (a.) That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.

Exhilaration (n.) The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.

Exhilaration (n.) The state of being enlivened or cheerful.

Exhorted (imp. & p. p.) of Exhort

Exhorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhort

Exhort (v. t.) To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.

Exhort (v. i.) To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

Exhort (n.) Exhortation.

Exhortation (n.) The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.

Exhortation (n.) Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition.

Exhortative (a.) Serving to exhort; exhortatory; hortative.

Exhortatory (a.) Of or pertaining to exhortation; hortatory.

Exhorter (n.) One who exhorts or incites.

Exhumated (a.) Disinterred.

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

Exhumed (imp. & p. p.) of Exhume

Exhuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exhume

Exhume (v. t.) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

Exiccate (v. t.) See Exsiccate.

Exiccation (n.) See Exsiccation.

Exigence (n.) Exigency.

Exigencies (pl. ) of Exigency

Exigency (n.) 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.

Exigendary (n.) See Exigenter.

Exigent (a.) Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.

Exigent (n.) Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.

Exigent (n.) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Exigenter (n.) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished.

Exigible (a.) That may be exacted; repairable.

Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Exiguous (a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

Exile (n.) Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.

Exile (n.) The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home.

Exiled (imp. & p. p.) of Exile

Exiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exile

Exile (v. t.) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away.

Exile (a.) Small; slender; thin; fine.

Exilement (n.) Banishment.

Exilic (a.) Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

Exilition (n.) A sudden springing or leaping out.

Exility (a.) Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness.

Eximious (a.) Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

Exinanite (v. t.) To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.

Exinanition (n.) An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation.

Existed (imp. & p. p.) of Exist

Existing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exist

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

Exist (v. i.) To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

Exist (v. i.) To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

Existence (n.) 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 (n.) Continued or repeated manifestation; occurrence, as of events of any kind; as, the existence of a calamity or of a state of war.

Existence (n.) That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences.

Existency (n.) Existence.

Existent (a.) Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.

Existential (a.) Having existence.

Exister (n.) One who exists.

Existible (a.) Capable of existence.

Existimation (n.) Esteem; opinion; reputation.

Exit () He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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