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An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.

To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp…

curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak.

ve validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

, a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

Free, or released, from some liability to which others are subject; excepted from the operation or burden of some law; released; free; clear; privileged; -- (with from): not subject to; not liable to; as, goods exempt from execution; a person exempt from jury service. True nobility is exempt from fear. Shak. T is laid…

Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. -- Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught…

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

rtaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia. Exophthalmic golter. Same as Rasedow's disease.

A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.

Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

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

The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

ans to accomplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.

To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

pection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke.