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Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. -- n.

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment. Expectant estate (Law), an estate in expectancy. See under Expectancy.

The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]

Of an expiatory nature; expiatory. Jer. Taylor.

pression; exponential calculus; an exponential function. Exponential curve, a curve whose nature is defined by means of an exponential equation. -- Exponential equation, an equation which contains an exponential quantity, or in which the unknown quantity enters as an exponent. -- Exponential quantity (Math.), a quant…

Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

Seeking or going out after external objects. [R.] Their natures being almost wholly extroitive. Coleridge.

Having the nature of a bean; like a bean.

liance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy. It is a great error to take facility for good nature. L'Estrange.

Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional, in distinction from a natural, standard or rule; not natural; as, factitious cinnabar or jewels; a factitious taste. -- Fac-ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fac*ti"tious-ness, n. He acquires a f…

In a fairmanner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak.

Widely different in nature or quality; opposite in character. He was far from ill looking, though he thought himself still farther. F. Anstey.

ted with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong. Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.