Part 4051

<h1>Exosse-ous</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*os"se-ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Ex</ets> + <ets>osseous</ets>.]</ety> <def>Boneless.</def> "<i>Exosseous</i> animals. "

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Exostome</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"o*stome</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Exo-</ets> + Gr. <?/ mouth :cf. F. <ets>exostome</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.</def>

<h1>Exostosis</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`os*to"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/; <?/ out + <?/ bone: cf. F <?/ <ets>exostose</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.</def>

<i>Coxe.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.</def>

<h1>Exoteric, Exoterical</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw><hw>Ex`o*ter"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ex`o*ter"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exotericus</ets>, Gr. <?/ fr. <?/ out: cf. F. <ets>exot\'82rique</ets>. See <er>Ex</er>-]</ety> <def>External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to <i>esoteric</i>, or secret.</def>

<blockquote>The foppery of an <b>exoteric</b> and esoteric doctrine. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exoterics</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`o*ter`ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Philos.)</fld> <def>The public lectures or published writings of Aristotle. See <er>Esoterics</er>.</def>

<h1>Exotery</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"o*ter*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Exoteries</plw> <tt>(-<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>That which is obvious, public, or common.</def>

<blockquote>Dealing out <b>exoteries</b> only to the vulgar. <i>A. Tucker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exotheca</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`o*the"ca</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Nl., fr. Gr. <?/ outside + <?/ a case, box.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The tissue which fills the interspaces between the cost\'91 of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.</def>

<h1>Exotheci-um</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex`o*the"ci-um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Exotheca</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The outer coat of the anther.</def>

<h1>Exotic</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ot"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>exoticus</ets>, Gr. <?/ fr. <?/ outside: cf. F. <ets>exotique</ets>. See <er>Exoteric</er>.]</ety> <def>Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; <as>as, an <ex>exotic</ex> plant; an <ex>exotic</ex> term or word.</as></def>

<blockquote>Nothing was so splendid and <b>exotic</b> as the ambassador. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exotic</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*ot"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.</def>

<blockquote>Plants that are unknown to Italy, and such as the gardeners call <b>exotics</b>. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exotical</h1> <Xpage=523>