exporter

[Eng.export; -er.] *1. One who carries or takes out or away. 2. One who exports commodities to foreign countries in way of traffic; in contradistinction to the importer, who brings them in from foreign countries. "Money will be melted down or carried away in coin by the exporter , whether the pieces of each species be by the law bigger or le ."-Locke: Concerning the Value of Money. marine; gō, pět exposal *ex-põş-al, s. [Eng. expos (e); al.] The act of exposing; exposure. "In a great measure owing to the common exposal of our wit."- Advice to a Young Poet. ěx-põşe, v . t . [Fr. exposer =to lay out, to expose: ex out, and poser =to set, to place.] 1. To set or cast out or away. "Helple and naked on a woman's knees, To be exposed or reared as she may please," Prior: Solomon , iii. 56, 57. 2. To set out or put forward as for sale; to exhibit. 3. To set in some public place to be seen by all. "He was then carried to the market place, and exposed during some time as a malefactor." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. 4. To lay bare or open; to leave uncovered; to disclose. IMG:content-1289.png:[blocks in formation] 9. To put in the power of anything. "He would not to the seas expose his wife." Dryden: Ceyx and Alcyone. 10. To hold up to censure or ridicule, by disclosing the faults of; to show the folly, ignorance, or wickedne of. "Like Horace, you only expose the follies of men without arraigning their vices."-Dryden: Juvenal (Dedic.). ěx-pō-şê, s . [Fr., pa. par. of exposer .] 1. A formal declaration or recital by an individual or government of the causes and grounds of acts performed. 2. An exposure; spec if., the exposure or disclosure of something which it is desired to keep secret. ěx-pöşed, pa . par . & a. [EXPOSE, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Set out, exhibited, disclosed. 2. Open, unsheltered, unprotected, liable: as, an exposed situation. *ěx-pôş-ěd-ne , s. [Eng. exposed ; -ne .] The quality or state of being exposed, unsheltered, or unprotected; liability, exposure. "So that on the whole the exposedne to guilt or blame is left just as it was." -Edwards: On the Will , pt. iii., § 3. ěx-põş-ēr, s . [Eng. expos (e); -er.] 1. Ord. Lang.: One who or that which exposes. 2. Entom. ( pl .): The name given by Edward Newman, F. L. S., F. Z. S., to the butterflies called by him Detegentes, which, when in the chrysalis state, are exposed to the full influence of the weather. [DIURNA.]