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To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute. [Now used only colloquially.] Bacon. The trade of life can not be driven without partners. Collier.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ).

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

rmination. In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

t a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

Having the anterior scute

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project. [R.]

One who executes or performs; esp., a performer on a musical instrument. Great executants on the organ. De Quincey.

That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do. To do some fatal execution. Shak.

One who executes; an executer. Bacon.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.

Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract. Blackstone.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

Capable of being done, executed, or effected; practicable. Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield.