2. (Zoöl.) Destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.

Ex*scind" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exscinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Exscinding.] [L. exscindere; ex out, from + scindere to cut.] To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow.

The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly.

Am. Cyc.

Ex*scribe" (?), v. t. [L. excribere; ex out, from + scribere to write.] To copy; to transcribe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Ex"script (?), n. [L. exscriptus, p. p. of exscribere.] A copy; a transcript. [Obs.] Bailey.

Ex*scrip"tur*al (?; 135), a. [Pref. ex-+scriptural.] Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

Ex*scu"tel*late (?), a. [Pref. ex- + scutellate.] (Zoöl.) Without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.

Ex*sect" (?), v. t. [L. exsectio.] 1. A cutting out or away. E. Darwin.

2. (Surg.) The removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

{ Ex*sert" (?), Ex*sert"ed, } a. [L. exsertus, p. p. of exserere to stretch out or forth. See Exert.] Standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.

A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted.

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