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Expansible. Ether and alcohol are more expansile than water. Brande & C.

e; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

xtensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc. Cairnes.

of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end. -- Eye doctor, an oculist. -- Eye of a volute (Arch.), th…

by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book. Brande & C.

(n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. Brande & C.

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False f…

The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.

Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

he tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.

A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.

A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. Milton.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.