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Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.

haled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc. Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake. Milton.

To deprive of eyes. [R.] W. C. Hazlitt.

To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [Obs.]

The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage. [Obs.] This ravenous expiation of the state. Daniel.

One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To explain; to unfold. [Obs.] Like Solon's self explatest the knotty laws. B. Jonson.

urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong. Jowett (Thuc. ).

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.

One who expostulates. Lamb.

Containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.

Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

Having no stipules. Martyn.

To exorcise or renounce by blowing.

A blast from beneath. [Obs.] Bacon.

Distillation. [Obs.] An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.

To stimulate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Stimulation. [Obs.] Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.

To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. [R.]

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.