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That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening. -- Ex*hil"a*ra`ting*ly, adv.

The state of being enlivened or cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.

Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.

Situated outside of a joint.

Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

Not comprehended within a rule or rules. Jer. Taylor.

Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.

Of or pertaining to the faculæ. R. A. Proctor.

Domestic; familiar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

In a fascicled manner. Kirwan.

A ferule. [Obs.] Milton.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.

Of of pertaining to fibrils.

woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.

Pertaining to the fibula.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.