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Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

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

t able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.

Inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennæ of certain insects.

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.

Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.

Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

lding; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.

the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; - - said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day. You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. Shak.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.

Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties.

Having the nerves or veins arranged in a radiating manner; -- said of certain leaves, and of the winfs of some insects.

A bend or loop of a rope. In a fang, fast entangled. -- To lose the fang, said of a pump when the water has gone out; hence: To fang a pump, to supply it with the water necessary to make it operate. [Scot.]

nt in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent. They said, . . . We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6. The nations far and near contend in choice. Dryden.

To paint; -- said esp. of one's face. [Obs.] Shenstone.