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Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.

The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

Decau, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.

In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation.

A garland or wreath hanging in a depending curve, used in decoration for festivals, etc.; anything arranged in this way.

Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.

Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson.

he labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. Bacon.

The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.

ntional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France.

Any floral ornament or decoration. Rock.

Decoration; ornament; beauty. The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw.

Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle. Fluting iron, a laundry iron for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on bal…

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.

The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.