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), value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents of a person. It is by the weight of silver, and not the name of the piece, that men estimate commodities and exchange them. Locke. It is always very difficult to estimate the age in wh…

alienate. They . . . have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods. Jer. xix. 4.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.

The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.

To seize and detain by law, as goods. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid on all, not any one exempt. Dryden.

in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.

ity or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke.

Exactly representing; exact. Their human countenance The express resemblance of the gods. Milton.

Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. Men and gods are too extense; Could you slacken and condense Emerson.

A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.

e, as a passage from a book. I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. Swift. To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity.

Not subject to physical laws or methods.

look like a fable to report that this gentleman gives away a great fortune by secret methods. Addison.

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the…

A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children b…