Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Exsert"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Exsert \Ex*sert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exserted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Exserting}.] [See {Exsert}, a., {Exert}.]
To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert
the proboscis.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Exsert \Ex*sert"\, Exserted \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. --D. H.
Barnes.


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