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The act of heaping up. [Obs.] Bailey.

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

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

Stripping of possession; spoliation. [Obs.] A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort. Howell.

The act of stripping off bark, or the state of being thus stripped; decortication.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.

A sudden springing or leaping out. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

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

A leaping out. [R.] Latham.

The act of wiping or rubbing out. [Obs.]

To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. Dryden.

Special mental endowment; characteristic knack. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.

The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

g needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest wea…

A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

o a horizontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.