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One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [Obs.] Milton.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.

The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge.

Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

To expound; to explain; also, to expose; to imperil. [Old Eng. & Scotch] Drummond.

One who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles. Exponent of a ratio, the quotient arising when the antecedent is divided by the consequent; thus, 6 is the exponent of the ratio of 30 to 5. [R.]

Pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unkno…

, One who practices extortion.

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [R.] The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

See Felsite.