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eks's erpt, v. To make extracts from, or— an extract of to select, extract, cite or cite from. n. An extract a pa age selected from an author. [L. excerpere, -cerptum, fr. ex and carpere, to pick, gather.]—Excerplion, n. Act of, etc. thing selected or gleaned. — Excerp'tor, -ter, n. Exce , Exce ive. See under Exceed. Exchange. eks-chanj', v. [-changed (-chanjdO, -CHANGING.]ing.] TOTo give give or take in return for something else; esp., in trade, to barter to part with for a substitute, interchange, commute, bargain, swap, traffic. — v. To be changed or received in exchange for; to pa in exchange. — n. Act of giving or taking one thing in return for another, or of giving and receiving reciprocally thing given for something received. Com.) Proce of settling accounts or debts between parties at a distance, without intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called of exchange. {Law.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consider a linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. 206 EXCHEQUER 190 tion of the other. Place where merchants and bankers of a city transact busine , at certain hours, — contr. into 'Change. [OF. eschange, exchange, eschanger, to exchange. See Change.] — Par of exchange. Established value of the coin or standard of value of one country when expre ed in the standard of another. — Exchangeable, a. — Exchangeability, n. — Exchan'ger, n.