Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 67

Exoteries (pl. ) of Exotery

Exotery (n.) That which is obvious, public, or common.

Exotheca (n.) The tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.

Exothecium (n.) The outer coat of the anther.

Exotic (a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

Exotic (n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

Exotical (a.) Foreign; not native; exotic.

Exoticism (n.) The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.

Expanded (imp. & p. p.) of Expand

Expanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expand

Expand (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

Expand (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

Expand (v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.

Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

Expander (n.) Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

Expanding (a.) That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.

Expanse (n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.

Expanse (v. t.) To expand.

Expansibility (n.) The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.

Expansible (a.) Capable of being expanded or spread out widely.

Expansile (a.) Expansible.

Expansion (n.) The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.

Expansion (n.) That which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.

Expansion (n.) Space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.

Expansion (n.) Enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.

Expansion (n.) The developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.

Expansion (n.) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

Expansion (n.) The enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.

Expansive (a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.

Expansure (n.) Expanse.

Ex parte () Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex parte statement.

Expatiated (imp. & p. p.) of Expatiate

Expariating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expatiate

Expatiate (v. i.) To range at large, or without restraint.

Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

Expatiate (v. t.) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.

Expatiation (n.) Act of expatiating.

Expatiatory (a.) Expansive; diffusive.

Expatriated (imp. & p. p.) of Expatriate

Expatriating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expatriate

Expatriate (v. t.) To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

Expatriate (v. t.) Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

Expatriation (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

Expected (imp. & p. p.) of Expect

Expecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expect

Expect (v. t.) To wait for; to await.

Expect (v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated.

Expect (v. t.) To wait; to stay.

Expect (n.) Expectation.

Expectable (a.) That may be expected or looked for.

Expectance (n.) Alt. of Expectancy

Expectancy (n.) The act of expecting ; expectation.

Expectancy (n.) That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.

Expectant (a.) Waiting in expectation; looking for

Expectant (a.) waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.

Expectant (n.) One who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.

Expectation (n.) The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

Expectation (n.) That which is expected or looked for.

Expectation (n.) The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.

Expectation (n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

Expectation (n.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectative (a.) Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Expectative (n.) Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.

Expectedly (adv.) In conformity with expectation.

Expecter (n.) One who expects.

Expectingly (adv.) In a state of expectation.

Expective (a.) Expectative.

Expectorant (a.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.

Expectorant (n.) An expectorant medicine.

Expectorated (imp. & p. p.) of Expectorate

Expectorating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expectorate

Expectorate (v. t.) To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

Expectorate (v. i.) To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.

Expectoration (n.) The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

Expectoration (n.) That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.

Expectorative (a. & n.) Same as Expectorant.

Expede (v. t.) To expedite; to hasten.

Expediate (v. t.) To hasten; to expedite.

Expedience (n.) Alt. of Expediency

Expediency (n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Expediency (n.) Expedition; haste; dispatch.

Expediency (n.) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.

Expedient (a.) Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.

Expedient (a.) Quick; expeditious.

Expedient (n.) That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.

Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Expediential () Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

Expediently (adv.) In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.

Expediment (n.) An expedient.

Expeditate (v. t.) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

Expedite (a.) Free of impediment; unimpeded.

Expedite (a.) Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.

Expedited (imp. & p. p.) of Expedite

Expediting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expedite

Expedite (v. t.) To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.

Expedite (v. t.) To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.

Expeditely (adv.) In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Expediteness (n.) Quality of being expedite.

Expedition (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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