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An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

An exclamation expressing delight.

To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.

The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.

An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough.

An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse.

A violent exclamation; ejaculation. He would . . . break out into bitter and passionate eruditions. Sir H. Wotton.

The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders. [Written also evat.]

pediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.

An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak . . . as one which is faulty. 2 Sam. xiv. 13.

A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant. "Impudent fee-faw-fums." J. H. Newman.

An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [Colloq.]

An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy. Fuller.

An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt; poh; fle. Shak.

Exaggerated declamation; rant.

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

An exclamation of disgust; foh; faugh. Dryden.

rdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zoöl.), one of several species of very large squids, belongi…