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Tending to excite; exciting.

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

ce, 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.

hed limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. Foul exorbitant desires. Milton.

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

ected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Burrill.…

waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.

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

The state of rising above others; a projection. Evelyn. Boyle.

Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.

Exultation. [Obs.] Burton. Hammond.

ult; characterized by, or expressing, exultation; rejoicing triumphantly. Break away, exultant, from every defilement. I. Tay;or.

A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] Wiseman.

Same as Fontanel, 2.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

A native or inhabitant of Cadiz.

To withstand; to resist. [Obs.] Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P. Sidney.

Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls. Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic.