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The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.

ct by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle.

To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap. Carleton.

Inclined to eat; hungry; voracious. [R.] Bailey. "Poor, but esurient." Carlyle.

having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat. Carlyle.

ll times; every instant. [R.] "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.

e language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.

ence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying. Carlyle. -- Ex"e*cra*tive*ly, adv.

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] "Exiguous resources." Carlyle. -- Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]

Tending to fish out; searching out [R.] Carlyle.

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

ilding upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.

t; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

1. To repair; to prepare; to put in order. [Prov. Eng.] Carlyle.

Importunity; urgent demand. [Archaic] Carlyle.

Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.

Forbearing. [R.] Carlyle.