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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.

o drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. Fas"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

r extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." Barrow.

omentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

er dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress. Passions are allayed, appetites are flatted. Barrow.

talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. Barrow.

often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. The flux nature of all things here. Barrow.

nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Barrow.

) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.

Tasteful; well-tasted. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby. -- Gust"ful*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.

A bier or handbarrow for conveying the dead to the grave. [Obs.] Set down, set down your honorable load, It honor may be shrouded in a hearse. Shak.

a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

n gas, formerly called hepatic gas. On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water. Barrow.

at, called, respectively, lard and pork; swine; porker; specifically, a castrated boar; a barrow.

States, called a tramway. -- Horse run (Civil Engin.), a device for drawing loaded wheelbarrows up an inclined plane by horse power. -- Horse sense, strong common sense. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Horse soldier, a cavalryman. -- Horse sponge (Zoöl.), a large, coarse, commercial sponge (Spongia equina). -- Horse stinger (Zo…

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.

ntreaty. [Obs.] In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses. Barrow.