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A freeing from moss. [Obs.]

To kill off; to destroy. [Obs.] Harvey.

To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate…

The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. Locke.

One who equivocates. Here's an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, yet could not equivocate to heaven. Shak.

Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.

To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.

Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

The act or process of making ether; specifically, the process by which a large quantity of alcohol is transformed into ether by the agency of a small amount of sulphuric, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

To empty. [Obs.] Harvey.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.

Calling forth; serving to evoke; developing. Evocative power over all that is eloquent and expressive in the better soul of man. W. Pater.

One who calls forth. [R.]

To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.

To blind. [Obs.] Cockeram.

The act of making blind. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.