from a Lat, extrorsus, for ext rovers us, from extra = textrorse, extrorsal

[Fr. extrorse, as if beyond, without, and versus turned, pa. par. of ver to=to turn; comp. dextrorsus.] Botany : 1. Gen.: On the outer side; turned outside from the axis of growth of the series of organs to which it belongs. 2. Spec.: Used of the longitudinal dehiscence of an anther, when it takes place, as in certain cases it does, on the outer side, facing the corolla. Example, the Iridaceae (q. v.). out, and versio =a turning.] ěx-tro-ver-sion, s. [Lat. extra beyond, with for example, the bladder. Surg.: The turning of an organ inside out; as, *ěx-truct', *ex-struct', v . t. [Lat. exstructus, pa. par. of exstruo .] To build or pile up. *ex-truc-tion, s. [Lat. extructio, exstructio , from exstruo , extruo .] The act of building up; construction. *ěx-truc-tive, a. [Eng. extruct ; -ive.] Forming into a structure; raising up; constructing. *ěx-truc-tõr, s . [Lat. extructor , exstructor, from extruo , exstruo .] A builder, a constructor, a contriver, a fabricator. ex-trû'de, v. t. [Lat. extrudo: ex=out, and trudo to push.] 1. To thrust out or away; to push out or off; to drive off or out; to expel; to displace. "Who so irregularly and wrongfully had extruded St. Chrysostom."-Barrow: Of the Pope's Supremacy. 2. To expose. (Drayton: Barons ' Wars .) ěx-tru-şion, s. [Lat. extrusus , pa. par. of ex tion, or embarra ment. disengage from any perplexity, difficulty, complica- trudo .] The act of thrusting, driving, or pushing "He had brought himself into great distre , but had not the dexterity to extricate himself out of it."-Burnet: Hist. Own Time , vol. i., bk. i. *2. To solve, to clear from doubt or obscurity. "This ext rica teth that question which hath so much troubled the world."-Hale: Origin of Mankind , p. 40. 3. To set free, to discharge; to cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate moisture from a substance. "She finds herself bound by the iron chain of circum- stance, from which she can obtain no extrication ."-W. E. Gladstone : Juventus Mundi , p. 507. 2. The act or proce of sending out or emitting; as, the extrication of moisture from a substance. *ěx-trin-se-cāte, a . [Lat. extrinsecus .] Com- ing from without. "Which nature doth not forme of her owne power, But are ext rinse cate , by marvaile wrought. ex-trin-sic, *ex-trin-sick, *ex-trin-sique, a . [Fr. extrinsèque , from Lat. extrinsecus =from with- out, from extrin= extrim , adverbial form from exter outward, exterior, and sec us =by, beside. (Skeat.)] Outside, outward, external; proceeding body; not e ential; opposed to intrinsic (q. v.). Law: A term applied to facts and matters deposed to on oath, but which, not being relevant to the point at i ue, cannot be taken as part of the evi- I. Ordinary Language : 1. The utmost, farthest, or extreme point; the verge, the point or border which forms the termination of anything. "Petrarca's villa is at the extremity farthest from Padua." Eustace : Cla ical Tour , vol. i., ch. iv. from the middle. "The extremity of pain often creates a coldne in the extremities, but such a sensation is very consistent with an inflammatory distemper."- Arbuthnot : On Diet. 3. The remotest or farthest parts or regions. "They sent fleets out of the Red Sea to the extremities of Ethiopia, and imported quantities of precious goods.” -Arbuthnot. A. As adj .: The same as EXTRINSIC (q. v.). "A body cannot move unle it be moved by some ex- trinsical agent: absurd it is to think that a body, by a quality in it, can work upon itself."- Digby : On Bodies . B. As subst .: An outward accident or circum- stance; something not pertaining to the substance. "Against any of the circumstantials and extrinsic als which belonged to it." Heylin : Reformation, ii. 179. out; expulsion, displacement. *ex-tū-ber-ançe, *ex-tü'-ber-an-çỹ, s. [Lat. extuberans , pr. par. of extubero: ex=out, from, and tuber a swelling, a tumor.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A swelling or rising from any body; a protuberance, a knot, a prominence. "'And the dry land appeared: Not so precisely globous as before, but recompensed with an extuberancy of hills and mountains." Gregory: Notes on Pa ages in Script ure, p. 114. 2. Med .: A swelling or rising of the flesh. *ěx-tū-ber-ant, a. [Lat. extuberans , pr. par. of extubero.] Swelled up; protuberant, rising up. *ěx-tū-ber-āte, v . i . [Lat. extuberatus , pa. par. of extubero .] To swell or rise up; to become protuberant. *ěx-tū-ber-ā-tion, s . [Latin extuberatus , pa. par. of extubero .] The act of swelling up; a swelling, a protuberance. *ex-tu-měs'-çençe, s. [Fr., from Lat. extumescens, pr. par. of extumesco: ex out, and tumesco= to begin to swell; incept. of tumeo =to swell.] A swelling or rising. *ěx-tu-şion, s. [ Lat.extusus , pa. par. of extundo : ex out, and tun do to beat.] The act of beating or driving away; expulsion. ( Bacon .) [French ěx-ū-ber-ançe, ex-ū-ber-an-çỹ, s. exubérance, from Lat. exuberant i a, from exuber