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One who makes, or is authorized to make, an excuse; an apologist. [Obs.] Hume.

Making or containing excuse or apology; apologetical; as, an excusatory plea.

To deprive of bones; to take out the bones of; to bone. [Obs.] Bailey.

A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.

To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.

orcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

The Lepidoptera.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling. [Prov. Eng.]

A wandering about with evil intentions; a rioting. [Obs. & R.] Feltham.

A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.

Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [R.]

art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Same as Improvisate.

An improviser, or improvvisatore.

See Improvvisatore.

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

See Improvvisatrice.

mposes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously. [Written also improvisatore.]

A female improvvisatore. [Written also improvisatrice.]