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To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. Bentley.

To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.

Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne.

One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer.

. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

fficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton. The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.

fragile, break ; fruit, brook, v. t.; E. bear, L. ferre. See Guide to Pronunciation, sq. root 178, 179, 188, 198, 230.

The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

ed; grotesque. There at the foot of yonder nodding beech, That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

ndle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

dle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

allspice or spice bush. See Spicewood. -- Fever powder. Same as Jame's powder. -- Fever root (Bot.), an American herb of the genus Triosteum (T. perfoliatum); -- called also feverwort amd horse gentian. -- Fever sore, a carious ulcer or necrosis. Miner.

See Fever root, under Fever.

hread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses. -- Fi"brous*ness, n.

-- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

yond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. Sir J. Davies.

2d Corn. -- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags or rushes. -- Flag root, the root of the sweet flag. -- Sweet flag. See Calamus, n., 2.