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Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise ob horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden.

o rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish. Their inspiration exhaled in elegies. Prescott.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

ehind the times, over- conservative, or slow; -- usually preceded by old. [Written also fogie and fogey.] [Colloq.] Notorious old bore; regular old fogy. Thackeray.

ence; to prophesy; to foreshow. Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold. Pope. Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and luster of his character. C. Middleton.

The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

The incense of praise; inordinate flattery. To smother him with fumes and eulogies. Burton. In a fume, in ill temper, esp. from impatience.

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

the gray are varieties of the former. See Illust. of Accipiter. [Written also gerfalcon, gierfalcon, and jerfalcon.]

stomach of the same animal; minced head and pluck. [Written also haggiss, haggess, and haggies.]

Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.…

The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies.

Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

One skilled in hygiena; a hygienist.

A suffix signifying, in general, relating to, or characteristic of; as, historic, hygienic, telegraphic, etc.

That which is incoherent. Crude incoherencies . . . and nauseous tautologies. South.

Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

A Berber, as in Algiers or Tunis. See Berber.

leight of hand; a trick of sleight of hand; hence, any artful deception or trick. He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know. Spenser. The tricks and legerdemain by which men impose upon their own souls. South.