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n. 1. a vitamin essential for normal vision (C20H30O); it prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes; same as vitamin A. One U.S.P. unit of vitamin A is equivalent to 0.30 micrograms of pure vitamin A alcohol.
Syn. -- vitamin A; vitamin A alcohol; antiophthalmic factor; biosterol; retinol; A. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s); -- sometimes used for any adolescent girl, especially one following the latest youthful fashion .
Syn. -- bobbysocker. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who packs boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who boxes; a pugilist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A breed of dog. [ PJC ]

n. One who coaxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Radio) a device which switches electronic circuitry so that a radio antenna can function as either a transmitting or receiving antenna. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. exercents, -entis, p. pr. of exercere. See Exercise. ] Practicing; professional. [ Obs. ] “Every exercent advocate.” Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. That may be exercised, used, or exerted; as, the stock options are exercisable for only five years from the date of issue. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ F. exercice, L. exercitium, from exercere, exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive out of the inclosure; ex out + arcere to shut up, inclose. See Ark. ] 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

O we will walk this world,
Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc. “Desire of knightly exercise.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

An exercise of the eyes and memory. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback; to exercise on a treadmill or in a gym. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The wise for cure on exercise depend. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To draw him from his holy exercise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition; arithmetic exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which gives practice; a trial; a test. [ 1913 Webster ]

Patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exercise bone (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exercised p. pr. & vb. n. Exercising ] 1. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. Acts xxiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

About him exercised heroic games
The unarmed youth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope of end. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise authority; to exercise an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Jer. ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Ezek. xxii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wear my trusty sword,
When I do exercise. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who supervises the exercise of animals, such as horses or dogs. [ PJC ]

3. a device used for exercising muscles; as, a thigh exerciser. [ PJC ]

a. Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exercitatio, fr. exercitare, intense., fr. exercere to exercise: Cf. f. exercitation. ] exercise; practice; use. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a stationary bike for exercising.
Syn. -- exercise bike, exercise bicycle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. Gr. &unr_; out + &unr_; work; lit., out work, i. e., accessory work. See Work. ] (Numis.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exerting. ] [ L. exertus, exsertus, p. p. of exerere, exserere, to thrust out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. Exsert. ] 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So from the seas exerts his radiant head
The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion for him to move, to-day.

Syn. -- Attempt; endeavor; effort; essay; trial. See Attempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exertion. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior like that of a fox; cunning. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who hoaxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes an index. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of exertion; lack of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of exercise to strengthen specific muscles of the body by pushing parts of the body (such as the two hands) strongly against each other, or against a fixed object, so that the muscles are strongly stressed, but are stretched only a little. It is claimed to produce strength in the muscles thus exercised. Also called isometrics. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, mixes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer. [ Colloq. or Slang, U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a social gathering, game, or dance organized to provide an opportunity for people to meet each other; as, on the first night of the conference they had a wine-and-cheese mixer. [ PJC ]

4. a nonalcoholic beverage (such as fruit juice, club soda or ginger ale) added to an alcoholic beverage to produce a mixed drink. [ PJC ]

5. any device used for mixing. [ PJC ]

6. an electronic device for blending or manipulating sounds from different sources to produce a composite soundtrack, for an audio recording, video recording, or a movie. [ PJC ]

7. The technician who operates a mixer{ 6 }. [ PJC ]

v. t. To exert too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excessive exertion; as, he strained his back from overexertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., /mhw>, n. One who proposes a paradox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. fy`llon leaf + xhro`s dry. ] 1. (Zool.) A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It exists in several forms, some of which are winged, other wingless. One form produces galls on the leaves and twigs, another affects the roots, causing galls or swellings, and often killing the vine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family consisting of the plant lice.
Syn. -- family Phylloxeridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. [ Camb. Univ., Eng. ] [ Written also taxor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who vexes or troubles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. xarafin, xerafin, fr. Ar. ashrafī noble, the name of a gold coin. ] An old money of account in Bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sherry. See Sherry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shereef. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Shereef. ] A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30 (ca. 1900); -- also, in Morocco, a ducat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. xhro`s dry + de`rma skin. ] (Med.) (a) Ichthyosis. (b) A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of xeronic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. xhro`s dry + citraconic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. xerophagia, Gr. &unr_;; xhro`s dry + &unr_; to eat. ] Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. xhro`s dry + &unr_; to love. ] (Bot.) Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture. [ 1913 Webster ]

Plants which are peculiarly adapted to dry climates are termed by De Candolle xerophilous. Goodale. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; xhro`s dry + &unr_; the eye. See Ophthalmia. ] (Med.) An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Xerophthalmia. [ 1913 Webster ]

pr. n. A small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae.
Syn. -- genus Xerophyllum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]