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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.

Extirpative.

Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The…

Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

See Feldspar.

See Feldspathic.

Reproduction by fission; fissiparism.

A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway.

Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers. Bacon.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

The bank of a canal opposite, and corresponding to, that of the towpath; berm. [U. S.]

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

Hepatic. [R.]

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

Inflammation of the liver.