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EXERCISE n. 11 definitions

gienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.

EXERT v. 3 definitions

] So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden.

nd mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.

EXORBITANCE; EXORBITANCY n.

s of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.

EXORCISE v. 2 definitions

ify from the influence of an evil spirit or demon. Exorcise the beds and cross the walls. Dryden. Mr. Spectator . . . do all you can to exorcise crowds who are . . . processed as I am. Spectator.

EXPAND v. 4 definitions

ged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.

EXPATIATE v. 3 definitions

o extend; to diffuse; to broaden. Afford art an ample field in which to expatiate itself. Dryden.

EXPIRE v. 8 definitions

of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.

EXPLICATE v. 3 definitions

rity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.

EXPLORE v. 2 definitions

re new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. "Hidden frauds [to] explore." Dryden.

EXPOSE v. 5 definitions

faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden.

EXPRESS v. 13 definitions

artist shall express thy form. E. Smith. So kids and whelps their sires and dams express. Dryden.

EXSICCANT a. 2 definitions

Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up. -- n. (Med.)

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

Tending to make dry; having the power of drying.

An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

EXTEMPORE adv. 3 definitions

Done or performed extempore. "Extempore dissertation." Addison. "Extempore poetry." Dryden. -- n.

EXTEND v. 7 definitions

To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand. His helpless hand extend. Dryden.