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anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying. "Expurgatory animadversions." Sir T. Browne. Expurgatory Index. See Index Expurgatorius, under Index.

Destitute of blood. Sir T. Browne.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

Outward existence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To stimulate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

se extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To exude. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

n poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.

A fabulous or fictitious story. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.

alse; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow falsities for truths. Sir T. Brown.

.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

o take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.

The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.

Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.