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One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

ing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship. Plate of rare device, and jewels Of reach and exquisite form. Shak. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough. Shak.

In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

Quality of being exquisite.

Eager to discover or learn; curious. [Obs.] Todd. -- Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Fabulousness. [R.] Abp. Abbot.

conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South.

The state or quality of being famous. [Obs.] Johnson.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

Like or pertaining to the genus Favosites.

A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonian rocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.

A finegrained rock, flintlike in fracture, consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz.

relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

Weariness. [Obs.] Bailey.

Flatulence. [Obs.] Bacon.

The ponderousness or bulk of a folio; voluminousness. [R.] De Quincey.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

The fumes of drink. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence. Dunglison.