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ing, releasing, and the like; acquittal; release; absolution; justification; extenuation. Pleading so wisely in excuse of it. Shak.

One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another. Swift.

Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure. -- n.

An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished. Cowell.

or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views. The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India. Thirwall.

nspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke.

Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.

e. But fortune there extenuates the crime. Dryden. Let us extenuate, conceal, adorn the unpleasing reality. I. Taylor.

eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

ce performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

Characterized by wit and pleasantry; exciting laughter; as, a facetious story or reply. -- Fa*ce"tious*ly, adv. -- Fa*ce"tious*ness, n.

Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined. Men and birds are fain of climbing high. Shak. To a busy man, temptation is fainto climb up together with his business. Jer. Taylor.

Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful. Who can not see many a fair French city, for one fair French made. Shak.

Made or done in pleasant weather, or in circumstances involving but little exposure or sacrifice; as, a fair-weather voyage. Pope.

n, -- called a practical, evangelical, or saving faith. Without faith it is impossible to please him [God]. Heb. xi. 6. The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior. Dr. T. Dwight. Faith is an affe…

o represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [Obs.] Cavendish. Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver. Thackeray. Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky m…