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Characterized by, or formed with, evolution of heat; as, an exothermic reaction; -- opposed to endothermic.

d; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.

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.

Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

The act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.

ich may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

ountry, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation. Wheaton.

extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

To cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.

A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, etc. , to strengthen it or to protect or adorn the exposed surface.

ght iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope. [Colloq.]

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. -…

ivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe). See Wheatear.

To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. Jer. li. 2.

ng below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat. Ure.

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

yle of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.