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Language intended to incite and encourage; advice; counsel; admonition. I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Shak.

Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.

A violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath. A formidable explosion of high-church fanaticism. Macaulay.

to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell. My words express my purpose. Shak. They expressed in their lives those excellent doctrines of morality. Addison.

f meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression. The imitators of Shakespeare, fixing…

t; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller.

To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.

An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.

An old shriveled woman. [Slang, Eng.] Fagot iron, iron, in bars or masses, manufactured from fagots. -- Fagot vote, the vote of a person who has been constituted a voter by being made a landholder, for party purposes. [Political cant, Eng.]

Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.

Feeble; languid. [R.] Dryden.

A trick; a swindle. [Slang]

something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

ble; especially, one of this genus trained to the pursuit of other birds, or game. In the language of falconry, the female peregrine (Falco peregrinus) is exclusively called the falcon. Yarrell.

To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

A hand [Slang & Obs.] "We clap our fambles." Beau. & Fl.

A groupe of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.

A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1 De Colange.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]