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Equal weight; equiponderance.

Equal distance.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Hope. [Obs.] Shak.

Heat. [Obs.]

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. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.…

The act of expecting ; expectation. Milton.

Outward existence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.

ially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengeance on me for their extravagance. Dryden. The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance. Arbuthnot.…

A swelling or rising; protuberance. [R.] Moxon.

xuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.

Exultation. [Obs.] Burton. Hammond.

Superiority; superfluity. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

A glance of eye.

Fault; failure; omission. [Obs.] Bp. Fell.

Do-nothingness; inactivity; indolence.

See Furtherence.

A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) of Brazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but has no rattle.