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To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.

Feminine. [Obs.] West.

Feminity.

Feminine. [Obs.]

To solder or unite, as metals. [R.] Coleridge.

The soldering ir uniting of me [R.] Coleridge.

Having small opening, or foramina.

Thundering; fulminating. [R.] Bailey.

s; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority. They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees. De Quincey.

Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures. Fulminating oil, nitroglycerin. -- Fulminating powder (Chem.) any violently explosive powder, but especially one of the fulminates, as mercuric fulminate.

The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.

Thundering; striking terror. Cotgrave.

A pair. [Obs.] Drayton.

In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. Gray.

A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.

Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle. Germinal layers (Biol.), the two layers of cells, the ectoblast and entoblast, which form respectively the outer covering and inner wall of the gastrula. A third layer of cells, the mesoblast, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes inc…

Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.