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out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.

Capable of being expelled or driven out. "Expellable by heat." Kirwan.

One who. or that which, expels.

To expel again.

To banish; to expel. [Obs.] Mir. for Mag.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.

To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

pansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.…

tion of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.

y of another. -- To cast out, to throy out; to eject, as from a house; to cast forth; to expel; to utter. -- To cast the lead (Naut.), to sound by dropping the lead to the botton. -- To cast the water (Med.), to examine the urine for signs of disease. [Obs.]. -- To cast up. (a) To throw up; to raise. (b) To compute…

. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

in opinion; union in design or act; -- implying joint approbation. Tarquin the Proud was expelled by the universal concurrence of nobles and people. Swift.

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.