exIccation

[EXSICCATION.j *ex-Ic-ca-tive, a. [ExSICCATIVE.] ex-Id-1-a, s. [ Gr.exidiō to exude; because the sporules "exude" from the receptacle.] Bot.: A genus of Hymenomycetous Fungals, suborder Tremellini. They are simple, of large or of medium size, and in general grow on wood. Eridia auricula Judæ, so called from its resemblance, while growing, to a human ear, was once held to be medicinal-a view now abandoned. exies gency. "He will fit instruments to the dignity and exigence of the design."-Bp. Taylor: Holy Dying , ch. ii., § 4. 2. A pre ing nece ity; an emergency, or state of affairs demanding immediate action or remedy. "Not to insist too nicely upon terms in the present exigency of his affairs."- Ludlow : Memoirs, i. 100. Crabb thus discriminates between exigence and emergency: "The exigency is more common, but le pre ing; the emergency is imperious when it comes, but comes le frequently: a prudent traveler will never carry more money with him than what will supply the exigencies of his journey; and in case of an emergency will rather borrow of his friends than risk his property." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)