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Serving for example or pattern; exemplary. [Obs.] Hooker.

To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings. To exsasperate them against the king of France. Addison.

cy is over Israel. Ps. lxviii. 34. Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. Hooker.

The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. Arbitration of exchange. See under Arbitration. -- Bill of exchange. See under Bill. -- Exchange broker. See under Broker. -- Par of exchange, the established value of…

s in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I drown your exclamations. Shak. A festive exclamation not unsuited to the occasion. Trench.

Length of stroke, as of a piston; stroke. [An awkward use of the word.]

accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

n confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.

Exigency. Hooker.

arture; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. [Obs.] L. Coleman. Bolingbroke.

. . [were] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker.

m Engine), a cut-off valve, to shut off steam from the cylinder before the end of each stroke.

That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.

That which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope. The expectancy and rose of the fair state. Shak. Estate in expectancy (Law), one the possession of which a person is entitled to have at some future time, either as a remainder or reversion, or on the death of some one. Bu…

That which is expected or looked for. Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman. Milton.

Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.

Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement. Explicit function. (Math.) See under Function.

dieu; be more expressive to them. Shak. Through her expressive eyes her soul distinctly spoke. Littelton. -- Ex*press"ive*ly,adv. -- Ex*press"ive*ness,n.

The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.