1. To lay open; to set to public view; to disclose; to uncover or draw from concealment; as, to expose the secret artifices of a court; to expose a plan or design.
2. To make bare; to uncover; to remove from any thing that which guards or protects; as, to expose the head or the breast to the air.
3. To remove from shelter; to place in a situation to be affected or acted on; as, to expose one's self to violent heat.
4. To lay open to attack, by any means; as, to expose an army or garrison.
5. To make liable; to subject; as, to expose one's self to pain, grief or toil; to expose one's self to insult.
6. To put in the power of; as, to expose one's self to the seas.
7. To lay open to censure, ridicule or contempt.
A fool might once himself alone expose.
8. To lay open, in almost any manner; as, to expose one's self to examination or scrutiny.
9. To put in danger. The good soldier never shrinks from exposing himself, when duty requires it.
10. To cast out to chance; to place abroad, or in a situation unprotected. Some nations expose their children.
11. To lay open; to make public. Be careful not unnecessarily to expose the faults of a neighbor.
12. To offer; to place in a situation to invite purchasers; as, to expose goods to sale.
13. To offer to inspection; as, to expose paintings in a gallery.
