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G. Sharp.

Ex*pir"a*to*ry (?), a. (Physiol.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

Ex*pire" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expired (?); p. pr & vb. n. Expiring.] [L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit.] 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; - - opposed to inspire.

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.

Harvey.

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.

Dryden.

2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter.

Bacon.

3. To emit; to give out. [Obs.] Dryden.

4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [Obs.]

Expire the term Of a despised life.

Shak.

Ex*pire", v. i. 1. To emit the breath.

2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.

3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday.

4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.

Ex*pir"ing (?), a. 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

Ex"pi*ry (?), n. Expiration.

He had to leave at the expiry of the term.

Lamb.

The Parliament . . . now approaching the expiry of its legal term.

J. Morley.

Ex*pis"cate (?), v. t. [L. expiscatus, p. p. of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish.] To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." [R.] Nichol.

Dr. Burton has with much ingenuity endeavored to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them.

W. L. Alexander.