Exit (n.) The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
Exit (n.) Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
Exit (n.) A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
Exitial (a.) Alt. of Exitious
Exitious (a.) Destructive; fatal.
Exo () A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
Exocardiac (a.) Alt. of Exocardial
Exocardial (a.) Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.
Exocarp (n.) The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
Exoccipital (a.) Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.
Exoccipital (n.) The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.
Exocetus (n.) Alt. of Exocoetus
Exocoetus (n.) A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.
Exoculate (v. t.) To deprive of eyes.
Exode (n.) Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Exode (n.) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
Exode (n.) An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
Exodic (a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
Exogium (n.) See Exode.
Exodus (n.) A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
Exodus (n.) The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
Exody (n.) Exodus; withdrawal.
Ex-official (a.) Proceeding from office or authority.
Ex officiis (pl. ) of Ex officio
Ex officio () From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Exogamous (a.) Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.
Exogamy (n.) The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
Exogen (n.) A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.
Exogenetic (a.) Arising or growing from without; exogenous.
Exogenous (a.) Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
Exogenous (a.) Growing by addition to the exterior.
Exogenous (a.) Growing from previously ossified parts; -- opposed to autogenous.
Exogyra (n.) A genus of Cretaceous fossil shells allied to oysters.
Exolete (a.) Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.
Exolution (n.) See Exsolution.
Exolve (v. t.) To loose; to pay.
Exon (n.) A native or inhabitant of Exeter, in England.
Exon (n.) An officer of the Yeomen of the Guard; an Exempt.
Exonerated (imp. & p. p.) of Exonerate
Exonerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exonerate
Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
Exonerate (v. t.) To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice.
Exonerate (v. t.) To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.
Exoneration (n.) The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.
Exonerative (a.) Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.
Exonerator (n.) One who exonerates or frees from obligation.
Exophthalmia (n.) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
Exophthalmic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia.
Exophthalmos (n.) Alt. of Exophthalmus
Exophthalmus (n.) Same as Exophthalmia.
Exophthalmy (n.) Exophthalmia.
Exophyllous (a.) Not sheathed in another leaf.
Exoplasm (n.) See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.
Exopodite (n.) The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.
Exoptable (a.) Very desirable.
Exoptile (n.) A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.
Exrable (a.) Capable of being moved by entreaty; pitiful; tender.
Exorate (v. t.) To persuade, or to gain, by entreaty.
Exoration (n.) Entreaty.
Exorbitance (n.) Alt. of Exorbitancy
Exorbitancy (n.) A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands.
Exorbitant (a.) Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims.
Exorbitant (a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Exorbitantly (adv.) In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.
Exorbitate (v. i.) To go out of the track; to deviate.
Exorcised (imp. & p. p.) of Exorcise
Exorcising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exorcise
Exorcise (v. t.) To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one.
Exorcise (v. t.) To deliver or purify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon.
Exorciser (n.) An exorcist.
Exorcism (n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
Exorcism (n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.
Exorcist (n.) One who expels evil spirits by conjuration or exorcism.
Exorcist (n.) A conjurer who can raise spirits.
Exordial (a.) Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.
Exordiums (pl. ) of Exordium
Exordia (pl. ) of Exordium
Exordium (n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.
Exorhizae (pl. ) of Exorhiza
Exorhiza (n.) A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.
Exorhizal (a.) Alt. of Exorhizous
Exorhizous (a.) Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.
Exornation (n.) Ornament; decoration; embellishment.
Exortive (a.) Rising; relating to the east.
Exosculate (v. t.) To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly.
Exoskeletal (a.) Pertaining to the exoskeleton; as exoskeletal muscles.
Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.
Exosmose (n.) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.
Exosmosis (n.) See Exosmose.
Exosmotic (a.) Pertaining to exosmose.
Exospore (n.) The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
Exosstate (v. t.) To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone.
Exossation (n.) A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.
Exosse-ous (a.) Boneless.
Exostome (n.) The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.
Exostosis (n.) Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.
Exostosis (n.) A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.
Exoteric (a.) Alt. of Exoterical
Exoterical (a.) External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.
Exoterics (n. pl.) The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See Esoterics.