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An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

Free of impediment; unimpeded. To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.

In expedite manner; expeditiously.

Quality of being expedite.

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. With winged expedition Swift as the lightning glance.

Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Ex`pe*di"tious*ness, n.

Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.

To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.

The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.

Eloquence; readiness of speech. [Archaic]

The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley.

Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.