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The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

f protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]

arnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.

To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man. Creech. Sir. T. Browne.

Castration. [Obs.]

ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.

To cast out, as a devil, evil spirits, etc., by conjuration or summoning by a holy name, or by certain ceremonies; to expel (a demon) or to conjure (a demon) to depart out of a person possessed by one. He impudently excorciseth devils in the church. Prynne.