Excise

[Fr., from Lat. ezcido, excisum-ez, and cædo, to cut. See CESURA.] In England, an inland tax or impost on articles produced and consumed within the state or kingdom, and also on licenses to deal in certain commodities. IMG:content-0085.png:[blocks in formation] coughing, hiccoughing, vomiting, and expelling the fæces and urine, and others of a like nature, are to be deduced from the first and fourth cla es of motor vibrations; i. e., either from those vibrations which first ascend up the sensory nerves, and then are detached down the motory nerves, which communicate by some common trunk, plexus, or ganglion; or else from those vibrations that run along the surfaces of uniform membranes, and so affect all the muscles which lie contiguous to any part of the membranes."