exurgent

See exsurgent. exustiblet (eg-zus'ti-bl), a. [L. exustus, pp. of exurere, burn up, consume (see exustion ), + -ible.] Combustible. Davies. Contention is like fire, for both burn so long as there is any exustible matter to contend with. taining to or of the nature of exuviæ. The load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he [the old-clothes man] staggers. Thackeray, Catharine. In the poet's mind, the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought [the ideal], and has lost all that is exuvial . Emerson , Shakespeare. exuviate (ek-sū'vi-āt), v .; pret. and pp. exuvi ated , ppr. exuviating . [ exuvia + -ate2 .] Ι. in trans. To molt; shed or cast some part, as skin, hair, feathers, teeth, or shell. II. trans. To shed, cast, or throw off, as an effete skin, shell, or other external covering. Even when the Entomostraca have attained their full growth, they continue to exuriate their shell. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 610. At birth, or when the egg is hatched, the amnion bursts and is thrown off, and so much of the allantois as lies outside the walls of the body is similarly exuviated . Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 14.