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n. See Cockswain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bloodless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Exsanguious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exsanguis; ex out + sanguis, sanguinis, blood. Cf. Exsanguineous. ] 1. Destitute of blood. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exscinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exscinding. ] [ L. exscindere; ex out, from + scindere to cut. ] To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. excribere; ex out, from + scribere to write. ] To copy; to transcribe. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere. ] A copy; a transcript. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex-+scriptural. ] Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + scutellate. ] (Zoöl.) Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exsectio. ] 1. A cutting out or away. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Surg.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exserted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exserting. ] [ See Exsert, a., Exert. ] To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. [ L. exsertus, p. p. of exserere to stretch out or forth. See Exert. ] Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens. [ 1913 Webster ]

A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exsiccans, p. pr. of exsiccare. See Exsiccate. ] Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up. -- n. (Med.) An exsiccant medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exsiccated p. pr. & vb. n. Exsiccating. ] [ L. exsiccatus, p. p. of exsiccare to dry up; ex out + siccare to make dry, siccus dry. ] To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsiccatio: cf. F. exsiccation. ] The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to make dry; having the power of drying. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsiliens leaping out, p. pr. of exsilire; ex out + salire to leap. ] A leaping out. [ R. ] Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsolutio a release. ] Relaxation. [ R. ] Richardson (Dict. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exspoliatio, fr. exspoliare to spoil, to plunder; ex out, from + spoliare. See Spoliate. ] Spoliation. [ Obs. or R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exspuitio; ex out + spuere to spit: cf. F. exspuition. ] A discharge of saliva by spitting. [ R. ] E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spit out, or as if spit out. “Exsputory lines.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ex- + stipulate. ] (Bot.) Having no stipules. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to turn inside out; &unr_; = &unr_; out + &unr_; to turn. ] (Med.) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exsuccus; ex out + succus juice. ] Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsugere, exsuctum, to suck out; ex out + sugere to suck: cf. F. exsuccion. ] The act of sucking out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exudation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exsufflare to blow at or upon; ex out + sufflare. See Sufflate. ] (Eccles.) To exorcise or renounce by blowing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. exsufflatio. ] 1. A blast from beneath. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccles.) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Empty; frivolous. [ A Shakespearean word only once used. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. exsuscitatus, p. p. of exsuscitare; ex out + suscitare. See Suscitate. ] To rouse; to excite. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. exsuscitatio. ] A stirring up; a rousing. [ Obs. ] Hallywell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The seed of the flax; linseed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Foxiness; craftiness. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inexsuperabilis; pref. in- not + exsuperabilis that may be surmounted. See In- not, Ex-, and Superable. ] Not capable of being passed over; insuperable; insurmountable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof. [ 1913 Webster ]