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- English Word Exercise Definition Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as, to take exercise on horseback.
- English Word Exercise Definition The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercise Definition That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercise Definition 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.
- English Word Exercised Definition of Exercise
- English Word Exerciser Definition One who exercises.
- English Word Exercisible Definition Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
- English Word Exercising Definition of Exercise
- English Word Exercitation Definition exercise; practice; use.
- English Word Exergue Definition 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.
- English Word Exert Definition To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
- English Word Exert Definition 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.
- English Word Exert Definition To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
- English Word Exerted Definition of Exert
- English Word Exerting Definition of Exert
- English Word Exertion Definition 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.
- English Word Exertive Definition Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
- English Word Exertment Definition Exertion.
- English Word Exesion Definition The act of eating out or through.
- English Word Exestuate Definition To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.
- English Word Exestuation Definition A boiling up; effervescence.
- English Word Exeunt Definition They go out, or retire from the scene; as, exeunt all except Hamlet. See 1st Exit.
- English Word Exfetation Definition Imperfect fetation in some organ exterior to the uterus; extra-uterine fetation.
- English Word Exfoliate Definition To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
- English Word Exfoliate Definition To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.