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The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.

Extemporaneous; unpremeditated. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Ex*tem"po*ral*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.

ethod; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton.

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country. They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia. Arbuthnot.

A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. Brande & C.

Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation. [Written also feces.]

Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.

To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish. You are all resolved rather to die than to famish Shak.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent down his eye. Milton. Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, e…

or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.

dregs; sediment; excrement. See FÆces.

Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.