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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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EXCAVATION n. 4 definitions

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

EXTRAVAGANCE n. 2 definitions

The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengean…

EXTRAVAGANCY n.

EXTRAVAGANT a. 5 definitions

Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [Obs.] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak.

EXTRAVAGANTLY adv.

In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

EXTRAVAGANTNESS n.

The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.

EXTRAVAGANZA n. 2 definitions

An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

To rove. Bp. Warburton.

EXTRAVAGATION n.

A wandering beyond limits; excess. [Obs.] Smollett.

To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

EXTRAVASATION n.

f forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

EXTRAVASCULAR a. 2 definitions

Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.

Formed like, or resembling, a honeycomb.

See Favus, n., 2. Fairholt.

A yellow, crystalline, organic dyestuff, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

Forced feeding (as of poultry or infants) by means of a tube passed through the mouth down to the stomach.

GRAVAMEN n. 2 definitions

The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.

s fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

HAVANA a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.