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Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.

To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke.

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey.

To drive away from one's country; to banish. Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser. . He shell expel them from before you . . . and ye shell possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

ysician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.

n explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

rofuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man. "Extravagant expense." Bancroft.

d cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. Bancroft.

in triumph or exceedingly; to triumph; as, an exulting heart. "An exulting countenance." Bancroft. The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. Pope.

One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft.

wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

cially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.

A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.

a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. Milton.

uty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife. A most unnatural and faithless service. Shak.

To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!" Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to…

way, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone…