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Excuse; apology. [Obs.] Bacon.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

xemplary person; exemplary conduct. [Bishops'] lives and doctrines ought to be exemplary. Bacon.

To become joyous. [R.] Bacon.

r cheerful. Exhilaration hath some affinity with joy, though it be a much lighter motion. Bacon.

Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.

To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially. Such charters be expedited of course. Bacon.

Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.

plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.

ry away; to remove. [Obs.] [They] export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy. Bacon.

r of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit. All the fruits out of which drink is expressed. Bacon. And th'idle breath all utterly expressed. Spenser. Halters and racks can not express from thee More than by deeds. B. Jonson.

A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.

Stimulation. [Obs.] Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.

Extirpator. [Obs.] Bacon.

Extortionate. [Obs.] "Extortious cruelties." Bp. Hall -- Ex*tor"tious*ly, adv. [Obs.] Bacon.

Very sore; ulcerated. [Obs.] Bacon.

Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.