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To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

To banish; to drive out; to expel. [Obs.] "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.

One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To expel from court for some offense or misconduct, as an attorney or officer; to deprive or put out of a thing by the judgment of a court. Burrill.

Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. Eve, recovering heart, replied. Milton. The expelled nations take heart, and when they fly from one country invade another. Sir W. Temple.

Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n.

Causing a discharge of water; expelling serum effused into any part of the body, as in dropsy. -- n.

ian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the Indonesian race.

A medicine having, or supposed to have, the power of expelling calculous matter with the urine. Hooper.

A person skilled in logic. Bacon. Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.

hold; take notice; take care; observe; - - used to call attention. Look, how much we thus expel of sin, so much we expel of virtue. Milton.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

ury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]

A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

To cause to be out; to eject; to expel. A king outed from his country. Selden. The French have been outed of their holds. Heylin.

One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. Ps. cxlvii. 2.

One who puts out, ousts, or expels; also, an ouster; dispossession. [R.]

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it; as, ginger pop; lemon pop, etc. Hood.