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substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.

Pertaining to, or producing, evaporation; as, the evaporative process.

An apparatus for condensing vegetable juices, or for drying fruit by heat.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.

To vibrate. [Obs.] Cockeram.

To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Castration. [Obs.]

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

A disemboweling.

To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] "Earth exaggerated upon them [oaks and firs]." Sir M. Hale.

Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.

That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ting*ly, adv.

The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.

Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.

One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.

Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.

Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.