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A female creditor.

The act of yielding; surrender. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.

One who discredits.

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.

In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Quality of being expedite.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

State of being hereditable. Brydges.

Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.

By inheritance. W. Tooke.