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

Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.

Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate.

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. Milton.

That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or…

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air. A more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace. His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott. -- Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.…

Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.

Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedie…

A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

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

Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish. [R.] An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat. The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.

Serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.

Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.