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Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for. Think ye that we excuse ourselves to you 2 Cor. xii. 19.

Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology. Whillock.

Capable of being exhaled or evaporated. Boyle.

Having the quality of exhaling or evaporating.

The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious effluvia. Less fragrant scents the unfolding rose exhales. Pope.

mpletely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon.

To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

uct or amuse; a fictitious narration intended to enforce some useful truth or precept; an apologue. See the Note under Apologue. Jotham's fable of the trees is the oldest extant. Addison .

ation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11.

I falsify men's hope. Shak. Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under Julian the apostate, to baffie and falsify the prediction. Addison.

the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

es after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.