excurt (eksker)

i. [L. excurrere, run out, run forth, project, make an excursion or irruption, His disease was an asthma, oft excurring to an orthopnœia. Harvey, Consumptions. ex curia (eks kūʻri-ä). [L.: ex, out of; curia, abl. of curia, court: see curia.] Out of court. excurrent (eks-kur'ent), a. [L. excurren (t-)s, ppr. of excurrere, run out, project: see excur.] infancy to the total suppre ion of their emotions of every kind, and endure the most excruciating torments at the 1. Running out. without signs of suffering. Everett, Orations, I. 310. 2. Extremely precise or elaborate; extreme: as, excruciating politene . [Colloq., U. S.] excruciatingly (eks-krö' eks-krö'shi-a-ting-li), adv. 1. In an excruciating manner.-2. Extremely: as, excruciatingly polite. [Colloq., U. S.] excruciation (eks-krö-shi-a's hon), n. [= OF. excruciation, The insoluble residue of the introduced food [in sponges], together with the fluid excreta, is carried out through the oscule by the excurrent water. Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 413. 2. In bot.: (a) Projecting or running beyond the edge or point of anything, as when the midrib of a leaf projects beyond the apex. (b) Prolonged to the very summit: applied to the trunk of a tree which is undivided to the top, as in the spruce, in distinction from a deliques cent growth.-3. Giving pa age outward; affording exit: as, an excurrent orifice. IMG:content-0875.png:[blocks in formation] Caroline Fox , Journal, p. 31. II. trans. To pa or journey through. Hal lam . [Rare.] excursion (eks-kėr's hon), п. [= F. excursion = Sp. excursion = Pg. excursão = It. escursione, The causes of those great excursions of the seasons into the extremes of cold and heat are very obscure. Arbuthnot, Effects of Air. But in low numbers short excursions tries. Pope , E ay on Criticism, 1. 738. 2. Digre ion; deviation; a wandering from a subject or main design; an excursus. No excursions upon words, good doctor; to the question briefly. B. Jonson, Epicœne, v. 1. This excursion vpon this occasion, wherein I haue found diuers Interpreters mute, will (I hope) find pardon with the Reader, who happily himselfe may finde some better resolution. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 134. I am not in a scribbling mood, and shall therefore make no excursions . Cowper . 3. A journey; specifically, a short journey, jaunt, or trip to some point for a special purpose, with the intention of speedy return: as, a pleasure excursion; a scientific excursion. Making an excursion to S. Thecla from Sidonaia, we dined at Touaney, in a house appointed for the entertainment of strangers. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 132. 4. A company traveling together for a special purpose; a joint expedition, especially a holiday expedition. An excursion numbering several hundreds, gathered railway officials, came up to mountain day. the benevolent enterprise of C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 65. 5. In physics, a movement of a moving or vibrating body from a mean position: as, the excur sion of a planet from the ecliptic, of a satellite from the apparent position of its primary, or of the prong of a tuning-fork. That sleepy-looking kind of escapement in which the second-hand moves very slowly and the excursion of the pendulum beyond the impulse is very little. Sir E. Beckett , Clocks and Watches, p. 89. 6. In mach., the range of stroke of any moving part; the travel: as, the excursion of a piston rod.-7t. A projecting addition to a building. Davies. Sure I am that small excursion out of gentlemen's halls in Dorcetshire (respect it East or West) is commonly called an orial. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 285. Circle of excursion, a circle in the heavens parallel to the ecliptic and so drawn that it is not traversed by any or by some one of the planets.=Syn. Trip, Travel, etc. See journey, n. excursion (eks-ker's hon), v. t. [ Yesterday I excursioned twenty miles: to-day I write a few letters. Lamb , To Words worth.