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pelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak.

Renewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.

The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.

The act of expulsion.[Obs.] Abp. Laud.

of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action 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.

A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.

seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

The same causes of demurral existed which prevented British troops from assisting in the expulsion of the French from Rome. Southey.

To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople. Where is this viper, That would depopulate the city Shak.

mmunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.

The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

oat, particular the latter, agitating the liquid (water or a medicinal preparation) by an expulsion of air from the lungs.

A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide. [Eng.] [Written also hokeday.]

merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i. The act of laughter, which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of our…