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  • English Word Existimation Definition Esteem; opinion; reputation.
  • English Word Existing Definition of Exist
  • English Word Exit Definition He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
  • English Word Exit Definition The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
  • English Word Exit Definition Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.
  • English Word Exit Definition A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
  • English Word Exitial Definition Alt. of Exitious
  • English Word Exitious Definition Destructive; fatal.
  • English Word Exo Definition A prefix signifying out of, outside; as in exocarp, exogen, exoskeleton.
  • English Word Exocardiac Definition Alt. of Exocardial
  • English Word Exocardial Definition Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.
  • English Word Exocarp Definition The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
  • English Word Exoccipital Definition Pertaining to a bone or region on each side of the great foremen of the skull.
  • English Word Exoccipital Definition The exoccipital bone, which often forms a part of the occipital in the adult, but is usually distinct in the young.
  • English Word Exocetus Definition Alt. of Exocoetus
  • English Word Exocoetus Definition A genus of fishes, including the common flying fishes. See Flying fish.
  • English Word Exoculate Definition To deprive of eyes.
  • English Word Exode Definition Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
  • English Word Exode Definition The final chorus; the catastrophe.
  • English Word Exode Definition An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.
  • English Word Exodic Definition Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.
  • English Word Exodus Definition A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.
  • English Word Exodus Definition The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
  • English Word Exody Definition Exodus; withdrawal.
  • English Word Exogamous Definition Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one's own tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.
  • English Word Exogamy Definition The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy.
  • English Word Exogen Definition A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen.
  • English Word Exogenetic Definition Arising or growing from without; exogenous.
  • English Word Exogenous Definition Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- the opposite of endogenous.
  • English Word Exogenous Definition Growing by addition to the exterior.