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The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.

Serving for exhibition; representative; exhibitory. Norris. -- Ex*hib"it*ive*ly, adv.

One who exhibits.

Exhibiting; publicly showing. J. Warton.

ence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. "a curb to your exorbitancies." Dryden. The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall.

Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. Foul exorbitant desires. Milto…

In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously.

To go out of the track; to deviate. [Obs.] Bentley.

The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [Obs.]

The bite of a flea, or the red spot caused by the bite.

Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.

Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. Shak.

Crabbed; peevish. [Prov. Eng.]

An American plant (Limnobium Spongia), with similar habits.

Frogbit.

Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

; to blight or nip with frost. My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frostbite themselves. Pepys.

A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.