Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-FO'LI-A-TING, ppr.

Separating and coming off in scales.

EX-FO-LI-A'TION, n.

The scaling of a bone; the process of separating, as pieces of unsound bone from the sound part; desquamation. Coxe.

EX-FO'LI-A-TIVE, a.

Having the power of causing exfoliation or the desquamation of a bone.

EX-FO'LI-A-TIVE, n.

That which has the power or quality of procuring exfoliation. Wiseman.

EX-HA'LA-BLE, a. [See Exhale.]

That may be exhaled or evaporated. Boyle.

EX-HA'LANT, a.

Having the quality of exhaling, or evaporating.

EX-HA-LA'TION, n. [L. exhalatio. See Exhale.]

1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth fluids in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
2. That which is exhaled; that which is emitted, or which rises in the form of vapor; fume or steam; effluvia. Exhalations are visible or invisible. The earth is often dried by evaporation, without visible exhalations. The smell of fragrant plants is caused by invisible exhalations.

EX-HALE', v.t. [egzhale; L. exhalo; ex and halo, to breathe, to send forth vapor; Ir. gal, gail, vapor; gailim, to evaporate.]

1. To send out; to emit; as vapor, or minute particles of a fluid or other substance. The rose exhales a fragrant odor. The earth exhales vapor. Marshes exhale noxious effluvia.
2. To draw out; to cause to be emitted in vapor or minute particles; to evaporate. The sun exhales the moisture of the earth.

EX-HAL'ED, pp.

Sent out; emitted, as vapor; evaporated.

EX-HALE'MENT, n.

Matter exhaled; vapor. Brown.

EX-HAL'ING, a.

Serving to exhale, promoting exhalation; as, exhaling vessels; an exhaling surface.

EX-HAL'ING, ppr.

Sending or drawing out in vapor or effluvia.

EX-HAUST', a.

Drained; exhausted. [Little used.] Burton.

EX-HAUST', v.t. [egzhause; L. exhaurio, exhaustum; ex and haurio, to draw, Gr. αρυω.]

1. To draw out or drain off the whole of any thing; to draw out, till nothing of the matter drawn is left. We exhaust the water in a well, by drawing or pumping; the water of a marsh is exhausted by draining; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
2. To empty by drawing out the contents. Venesection may exhaust the veins and arteries.
3. To draw out or to use and expend the whole; to consume. The treasures of the prince were exhausted; his means or his resources were exhausted. The strength or fertility of land may be exhausted.
4. To use or expend the whole by exertion; as, to exhaust the strength or spirits; to exhaust one's patience. Hence this phrase is equivalent to tire, weary, fatigue.

EX-HAUST'ED, pp.

Drawn out; drained off; emptied by drawing, draining or evaporation; wholly used or expended; consumed.

EX-HAUST'ER, n.

He or that which exhausts or draws out.

EX-HAUST'I-BLE, a.

That may be exhausted or drained off.

EX-HAUST'ING, ppr.

1. Drawing out; draining off; emptying; using or expending the whole; consuming.
2. adj. Tending to exhaust; as, exhausting labor.

EX-HAUS'TION, n.

1. The act of drawing out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
3. In mathematics, a method of proving the equality of two magnitudes by a reductio ad absurdum, or showing that if one is supposed either greater or less than the other, there will arise a contradiction. Encyc.

EX-HAUST'LESS, a.

Not to be exhausted; not to be wholly drawn off or emptied; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.

EX-HAUST'MENT, n.

Exhaustion; drain.

EX-HAUST'URE, n.

Exhaustion.

EX'HE-DRA, n. [Gr. εξ and εδρα.]

In architecture, a small room for conversation in a bath, or other building.

EX-HER'E-DATE, v.t. [infra.]

To disinherit.

EX-HER-E-DA'TION, n. [L. exhæredatio, exhæredo; ex and hæres, an heir.]

In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father's excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate. Encyc.