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Existence. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Exodus; withdrawal. [Obs.] The time of the Jewish exody. Sir M. Hale.

o give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.

office. She charged him . . . to ask at the express if anything came up from town. E. E. Hale.

sting; not destroyed or lost; outstanding. Writings that were extant at that time. Sir M. Hale. The extant portraits of this great man. I. Taylor.

Unlimited extension. [Obs.] An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.

e; light; clear; as, a fair skin. The northern people large and fair-complexioned. Sir M. Hale.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

several explosive mixtures, chiefly of ammonium nitrate and a nitrate derivative of naphthalene. They are stable, but require protection from moisture. As prepared it is a compressed cylinder of the explosive, filled with loose powder of the same composition, all inclosed in waterproof wrappers. It is used for mining.…

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

To make into felt, or a feltike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. Sir M. Hale.

The refuse whale blubber, used as a manure, and in the manufacture of Prussian blue. Ure.

Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts. Sir M. Hale. -- n.

n or child to a parent, esp. to a father. The relation of paternity and filiation. Sir M. Hale.

rtilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals. -- Unpaired, or Median, fins (Zoöl.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.…

Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

A finback whale.

A finback whale.

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. the flensed carcass of a fur seal. U. S. Census (1880).

e; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.