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The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.

ded, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time. Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham.

political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, not determinant in a few hours. J. Adams.

tly, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.

dden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.

e manner that it was when committed. Ex post facto laws are held to be contrary to the fundamental principles of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

Each skillful artist shall express thy form. E. Smith. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express. Dryden.

kes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural. Adam was then no less glorious in his externals South. God in externals could not place content. Pope.

See Exsuscitate [Obs.] T. Adams.

Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.…

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society. The welfare of the family underlies the welfare of society. H. Spencer.

hening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

gella) of the Buttercup family, having leaves finely divided, like those of the fennel. N.Damascena is common in gardens. N.sativa furnishes the fennel seed, used as a condiment, etc., in India. These seeds are the "fitches" mentioned in Isaiah (xxviii. 25). -- Fennel water (Med.), the distilled water of fennel seed.…

melling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).