| Excalceate |
v. t. |
To deprive of shoes. |
| Excalceation |
n. |
The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. |
| Excalfaction |
n. |
A heating or warming; calefaction. |
| Excalfactive |
a. |
Serving to heat; warming. |
| Excalfactory |
a. |
Heating; warming. |
| Excalibur |
n. |
The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. |
| Excamb |
v. t. |
Alt. of Excambie |
| Excambie |
v. t. |
To exchange;
used with reference to transfers of land. |
| Excambion |
n. |
Alt. of Excambium |
| Excambium |
n. |
Exchange; barter;
used commonly of lands. |
| Excandescence |
n. |
A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. |
| Excandescence |
n. |
Violent anger; a growing angry. |
| Excandescent |
a. |
White or glowing with heat. |
| Excantation |
n. |
Disenchantment by a countercharm. |
| Excarnate |
v. t. |
To deprive or clear of flesh. |
| Excarnation |
n. |
The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification;
opposed to incarnation. |
| Excarnificate |
v. t. |
To clear of flesh; to excarnate. |
| Excarnification |
n. |
The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. |
| Excavate |
v. t. |
To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth. |
| Excavate |
v. t. |
To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel. |
| Excavate |
v. t. |
To dig out and remove, as earth. |
| Excavated |
imp. & p. p. |
of Excavate |
| Excavating |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Excavate |
| Excavation |
n. |
The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. |
| Excavation |
n. |
A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. |
| Excavation |
n. |
An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel. |
| Excavation |
n. |
The material dug out in making a channel or cavity. |
| Excavator |
n. |
One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating. |
| Excave |
v. t. |
To excavate. |
| Excecate |
v. t. |
To blind. |
| Excecation |
n. |
The act of making blind. |
| Excedent |
v. t. |
Excess. |
| Exceed |
v. t. |
To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass;
used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours. |
| Exceed |
v. i. |
To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure. |
| Exceed |
v. i. |
To be more or greater; to be paramount. |
| Exceedable |
a. |
Capable of exceeding or surpassing. |
| Exceeded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Exceed |
| Exceeder |
n. |
One who exceeds. |
| Exceeding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Exceed |
| Exceeding |
a. |
More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. |
| Exceeding |
adv. |
In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly. |
| Exceedingly |
adv. |
To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very. |
| Excel |
v. t. |
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense. |
| Excel |
v. t. |
To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. |
| Excel |
v. i. |
To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics. |
| Excelled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Excel |
| Excellence |
n. |
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue. |
| Excellence |
n. |
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue. |
| Excellence |
n. |
A title of honor or respect;
more common in the form excellency. |
| Excellencies |
pl. |
of Excellency |
| Excellency |
n. |
Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority. |
| Excellency |
n. |
A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes. |
| Excellent |
a. |
Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action. |
| Excellent |
a. |
Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality;
used with words of a bad significance. |
| Excellent |
adv. |
Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. |
| Excellently |
adv. |
In an excellent manner; well in a high degree. |
| Excellently |
adv. |
In a high or superior degree;
in this literal use, not implying worthiness. |
| Excelling |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Excel |
| Excelsior |
v. t. |
More lofty; still higher; ever upward. |
| Excelsior |
n. |
A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair. |
| Excentral |
a. |
Out of the center. |
| Excentric |
a. |
Alt. of Excentrical |
| Excentrical |
a. |
Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical. |
| Excentrical |
a. |
One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. |
| Excentricity |
|
Same as Eccentricity. |
| 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. |
| Excepted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Except |
| Excepting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Except |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Excerpted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Excerpt |
| Excerpting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Excerpt |
| 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. |
