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Strongly affected. [Obs.] The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.

A swimming out. [Obs.] Bailey.

Growing out.

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

Pertaining to the endognath.

The ninth segment in insects.

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The act of unsheathing.

An order of fishes including a vast number of freshwater species such as the carp, loach, chub, etc.

To remove the kernel form.

Removal of the kernel.

A person subjected to examination. [Obs.] Bacon.

A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry. He neglected the studies, . . . stood low at the examinations. Macaulay. Examination in chief, or Direct examination (Law), that examination which is made of a witnes…

An examiner. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Ornament; decoration; embellishment. [Obs.] Hyperbolical exornations . . . many much affect. Burton.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.