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ut with the wings spread, as if about to fly; -- said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.

rfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.

A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.

in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

t a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Having the anterior scute

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.

To cut off. [R.]

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction. Such conquerors are the instruments of vengeance on those nations that have . . . grown ripe for excision. Atterbury.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

To cut off or out. [Obs.] See Exsect. Harvey.

Cut off; set apart. [Obs.] Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry. Shak.

The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress. Putting it straight in expedition.

To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.