Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-TREME-LY, adv.

1. In the utmost degree; to the utmost point. It is extremely hot or cold; it is extremely painful.
2. In familiar language, very much greatly.

EX-TREM'I-TY, n. [L. extremitas.]

1. The utmost point or side; the verge; the point or border that terminates a thing; as, the extremities of a country.
2. The utmost parts. The extremities of the body, in painting and sculpture, are the head, hands and feet; but in anatomy, the term is applied to the limbs only. Encyc. Cyc.
3. The utmost point; the highest or furthest degree; as, the extremity of pain or suffering; the extremity of cruelty. Even charity and forbearance may be carried to extremity.
4. Extreme or utmost distress, straits or difficulties; as, a city besieged and reduced to extremity.
5. The utmost rigor or violence. The Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity.
6. The most aggravated state. The world is running after farce, the extremity of bad poetry. Dryden.

EX'TRI-CA-BLE, a. [infra.]

That can be extricated.

EX'TRI-CATE, v.t. [L. extrico. The primary verb trico not in the Latin. We probably see its affinities in the Greek θριξ, τριχος, hair, or a bush of hair, from interweaving, tangling. I suspect that τρεις; and three are contracted from this root; three for threg, folded, or a plexus. The same word occurs in intricate and intrigue; Fr. tricher, to cheat; tricoter, to weave; Eng. trick; It. treccia, a lock of hair. Class Rg, No. 25.]

1. Properly, to disentangle; hence, to free from difficulties or perplexities; to disembarrass; as, to extricate one from complicated business, from troublesome alliances or other connections; to extricate one's self from debt.
2. To send out; to cause to be emitted or evolved.

EX'TRI-CA-TED, pp.

Disentangled; freed from difficulties and perplexities; disembarrassed; evolved.

EX'TRI-CA-TING, ppr.

Disentangling; disembarrassing; evolving.

EX-TRI-CA'TION, n.

1. The act of disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
2. The act of sending out or evolving; as, the extrication of heat or moisture from a substance.

EX-TRIN'SIC, or EX-TRIN'SIC-AL, a. [L. extrinsecus.]

External; outward; not contained in or belonging to a body. Mere matter can not move without the impulse of an extrinsic agent. It is opposed to intrinsic.

EX-TRIN'SIC-AL-LY, adv.

From without; externally.

EX-TRORS'AL, a. [L. extrorsum.]

Turned from the axis to which it appertains; as anthers whose line of dehiscence is toward the petals.

EX-TRUCT', v.t. [L. extruo, extructus.]

To build; to construct. [Not in use.]

EX-TRUC'TION, n.

A building. [Not used.]

EX-TRUCT'IVE, a.

Forming into a structure. Fulke.

EX-TRUCT'OR, n.

A builder; a fabricator; a contriver. [Not used.]

EX-TRUDE, v.t. [L. extrudo; ex and trudo, to thrust. Class Rd.]

1. To thrust out; to urge, force or press out; to expel; as, to extrude a fetus.
2. To drive away; to drive off. Woodward.

EX-TRUD-ED, pp.

Thrust out; driven out or away; expelled.

EX-TRUD-ING, ppr.

Thrusting out; driving out; expelling.

EX-TRU'SION, n. [s as z.]

The act of thrusting or throwing out; a driving out; expulsion.

EX-TU'BER-ANCE,

1. or EX-TU'BER-AN-CY n. [L. extuberans, extubero; ex and tuber, a puff.]
2. In medicine, a swelling or rising of the flesh; a protuberant part. Encyc.
3. A knob or swelling part of a body. Moxon.

EX-TU'BER-ANT, a.

Swelled; standing out

EX-TU'BER-ATE, v.i. [L. extubero.]

To swell. [Not in use.]

EX-TU-MES'CENCE, n. [L. extumescens, extumesco; ex and tumesco, tumeo, to swell.]

A swelling or rising. [Little used.]

EX-U'BER-ANCE, or EX-U'BER-AN-CY, n. [L. exuberans, exubero; ex and ubero, to fatten; uber, a pap or breast, that is, a swelling or mass.]

1. An abundance; an overflowing quantity; richness; as, an exuberance of fertility or fancy.
2. Superfluous abundance; luxuriance.
3. Overgrowth; superfluous shoots, as of trees.

EX-U'BER-ANT, a.

1. Abundant; plenteous; rich; as, exuberant fertility; exuberant goodness.
2. Over-abundant; superfluous; luxuriant.
3. Pouring forth abundance; producing in plenty; as, exuberant spring. Thomson.

EX-U'BER-ANT-LY, adv.

Abundantly; very; copiously; in great plenty; to a superfluous degree. The earth has produced exuberantly.