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Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.

st. I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation]. Bentley. He . . . took exception to the place of their burial. Bacon. She takes exceptions at your person. Shak. Bill of exceptions (Law), a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause,…

Liable to torment. [R.] Bailey.

. Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." V. Knox. "Excruciating fears." Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.

Of the nature of execration; imprecatory; denunciatory. C. Kingsley. -- n.

t one's strength, patience, or resources. A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

Very desirable. [Obs.] Bailey.

To go out of the track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.

es of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

Expectative. [R.] Shipley.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

the term. Lamb. The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term. J. Morley.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

Expressing reproach; upbraiding; reproachful. [R.] Sir A. Shirley.

A copy; a transcript. [Obs.] Bailey.

h is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.