Part 4003

<i>Gayton.</i>

<h1>Excarnate</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*car"nate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>excarnatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>excarnare</ets>; L. <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>caro</ets>, <ets>carnis</ets>, flesh.]</ety> <def>To deprive or clear of flesh.</def>

<i>Grew.</i>

<h1>Excarnation</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex`car*na"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to <i>incarnation</i>.</def>

<h1>Excarnificate</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*car"ni*fi*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>ex</ets> out + LL. <ets>carnificatus</ets>, p. p. <ets>carnificare</ets> to carnify; cf. L. <ets>excarnificare</ets> to tear to pieces, torment. See <er>Carnify</er>.]</ety> <def>To clear of flesh; to excarnate.</def>

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Excarnification</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex*car`ni*fi*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Excavate</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex"ca*vate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excavated</er><tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Excavating</er><tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>excavatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>excavare</ets> to excavate; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>cavare</ets> to make hollow, <ets>cavus</ets> hollow. See <er>Cave</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; <as>as, to <ex>excavate</ex> a ball; to <ex>excavate</ex> the earth.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; <as>as, to <ex>excavate</ex> a canoe, a cellar, a channel</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Engin.)</fld> <def>To dig out and remove, as earth.</def>

<blockquote>The material <b>excavated</b> was usually sand. <i>E. L. Corthell.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Excavating pump</col>, <cd>a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump.</cd></cs>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Excavation</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex`ca*va"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excavatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>excavation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.</def> "A winding <i>excavation</i>."

<i>Glover.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Engin.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a <i>covered cutting</i> or <i>tunnel</i>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.</def>

<blockquote>The delivery of the <b>excavations</b> at a distance of 250 feet. <i>E. L. Corthell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excavator</h1> <Xpage=520>

<hw>Ex"ca*va`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.</def>

<h1>Excave</h1> <Xpage=520>