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To blind. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.

To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. [Obs.] "Excorticate the tree." Evelyn.

See Exsiccate. [Obs.] Holland.

To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol. Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them. W. L. Alexander.

To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore.

To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc. We had now extricated ourselves from the various labyrinths and defiles. Eustance.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

Hooked or bent like a sickle; as, a falcate leaf; a falcate claw; -- said also of the moon, or a planet, when horned or crescent- formed.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

A double fluoride of silicon and some other (usually basic) element or radical, regarded as a salt of fluosilicic acid; -- called also silicofluoride.

Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.

To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.