‖n. [ G. ] See Legislature, Austria, Prussia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. (Zool.) a lynxlike animal of Asia and Africa (Lynx Lybicus). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ F. ] The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A foot covering of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of small, commonly luminescent crustaceans: krill.
Syn. -- order Euphausiacea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting. ] [ L. exhaustus, p. p. of exhaurire; ex out + haurire, haustum, to draw, esp. water; perhaps akin to Icel. asua to sprinkle, pump. ] 1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources. [ 1913 Webster ]

A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Chem.) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exhausted receiver. (Physics) See under Receiver.

Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out; weary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exhaustus, p. p. ] 1. Drained; exhausted; having expended or lost its energy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to steam, air, gas, etc., that is released from the cylinder of an engine after having preformed its work. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exhaust draught, a forced draught produced by drawing air through a place, as through a furnace, instead of blowing it through. --
Exhaust fan, a fan blower so arranged as to produce an exhaust draught, or to draw air or gas out of a place, as out of a room in ventilating it. --
Exhaust nozzle,
Exhaust orifice (Steam Engine), the blast orifice or nozzle. --
Exhaust pipe (Steam Engine), the pipe that conveys exhaust steam from the cylinder to the atmosphere or to the condenser.
Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. --
Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. --
Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been employed to produce motion of the piston. --
Exhaust valve (Steam Engine), a valve that lets exhaust steam escape out of a cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Steam Engine) 1. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The foul air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as burned-out, 1. [ wns=1+3 ]
Syn. -- burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), fagged, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. used up; completely consumed. [ wns=2 ][ Narrower terms: gone, expended, spent ] WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. emptied by being pumped out or having a vacuum created. Opposite of unexhausted.
Syn. -- exhausted, evacuated. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

pos>n. One who, or that which, exhausts or draws out. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being exhausted. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Opposite of inexhaustible. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. -- Ex*haust"ing, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Cf. F. exhaustion. ] 1. The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Math.) An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications and quadratures, now investigated by the calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exhaustion; drain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exhaustion. Wraxall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. ] (Zool.) A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso syn. Huso huso) from the region of the Black Sea; also called Beluga. It is sometimes twelve feet long, and provides the highest quality caviar. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ F. ] (Gun.) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm, or a cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. haustellum, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to draw water, to swallow. See Exhaust. ] (Zool.) An artificial division of insects, including all those with a sucking proboscis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Haustellata. ] (Zool.) Provided with a haustellum, or sucking proboscis. -- n. One of the Haustellata. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Haustella [ NL. ] (Zool.) The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Haustoria [ LL., a well, fr. L. haurire, haustum, to drink. ] (Bot.) One of the suckerlike rootlets of such plants as the dodder and ivy. R. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., House of Lords. ] See Legislature, Austria, Prussia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + exhausted: cf. F. inexhaustus. ] Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without exhaustion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being inexhaustible; abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay.

-- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`ex*haust"i*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inexhaustible. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. kink to gasp (cf. Chin cough) + haust a cough (akin to E. wheeze). ] Whooping cough. [ Obs.or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called in allusion to Baron Munchausen's extravagant tales of travel. ] An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., lit., level of the street. See Raze, v. t., and Causey. ] (Arch.) The ground story of a building, either on a level with the street or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on the continent of Europe.

Tier above tier of neat apartments rise over the little shops which form the rez-de-chaussée. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Inexhaustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
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See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
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See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
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See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
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See fluent.
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See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
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See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
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See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
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See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
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See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
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See good.
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See gorgeous.
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See guilty.
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See healable.
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