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Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.

H; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

Exciting venereal desire; provocative to venery.

Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food. The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott.

Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal. Like a young hound upon a burning scent. Dryden. Burning bush (Bot.), an ornamental shrub (Euonymus atropurpureus), bearing a crimson berry.

Exciting action in the heart, through the medium of the stomach; cordial; stimulant. Cardiac passion (Med.) cardialgia; heartburn. [Archaic] -- Cardiac wheel. (Mach.) See Heart wheel.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

Exciting mirth; droll; laughable; as, a comical story. "Comical adventures." Dryden.

The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. [R.] H. Giles.

The act of stirring up, exciting, or agitating. [Obs.] "The concitation of humors." Sir T. Browne.

Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires. Shak.