'EM, A contraction of them.
They took 'em.
EMAC'ERATE, verb transitive To make lean. [Not in use.]
EMA'CIATE, verb intransitive [Latin emacio, from maceo, or macer, lean; Gr. small; Eng. meager, meek.] To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.
EMA'CIATE, verb transitive To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness.
Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.
EMA'CIATE, adjective Thin; wasted.
EMA'CIATED, participle passive Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.
EMA'CIATING, participle present tense Wasting the flesh gradually; making lean.
EMACIA'TION, noun The act of making lean or thin in flesh; or a becoming lean by a gradual waste of flesh.
1. The state of being reduced to leanness.
EMAC'ULATE, verb transitive [infra.] To take spots from. [Little used.]
EMACULA'TION, noun [Latin emaculo, from e and macula, a spot.]
The act or operation of freeing from spots. [Little used.]
EM'ANANT, adjective [Latin emanans. See Emanate.] Issuing or flowing from.
EM'ANATE, verb intransitive [Latin emanano; e and mano, to flow.
1. To issue from a source; to flow from; applied to fluids; as, light emanates from the sun; perspirable matter, from animal bodies.
2. To proceed from a source of fountain; as, the powers of government in republics emanate from the people.
EM'ANATING, participle present tense Issuing or flowing from a fountain.
EMANA'TION, noun The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain-head or origin.
1. That which issues, flows or proceeds from any source, substance or body; efflux; effluvium. Light is an emanation from the sun; wisdom, from God; the authority of laws, from the supreme power.
EM'ANATIVE, adjective Issuing from another.
EMAN'CIIPATE, adjective Set at liberty.
EMAN'CIPATE, verb transitive [Latin emancipo, from e and mancipium, a slave; manus, hand, and capio, to take, as slaves were anciently prisoners taken in war.]
1. To set free from servitude or slavery, by the voluntary act of the proprietor; to liberate; to restore from bondage to freedom; as, to emancipate a slave.
2. To set free or restore to liberty; in a general sense.
3. To free from bondage or restraint of any kind; to liberate from subjection, controlling power or influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
4. In ancient Rome, to set a son free from subjection to his father, and give him the capacity of managing his affairs, as if he was of age.
EMAN'CIPATED, participle passive Set free from bondage, slavery, servitude, subjection, or dependence; liberated.
EMAN'CIPATING, participle present tense Setting free from bondage, servitude or dependence; liberating.
EMANCIPA'TION, noun The act of setting free from slavery, servitude, subjection or dependence; deliverance from bondage or controlling influence; liberation; as the emancipation of slaves by their proprietors; the emancipation of a son among the Romans; the emancipation of a person from prejudices, or from a servile subjection to authority.
EMAN'CIPATOR, noun One who emancipates or liberates from bondage or restraint.
EMA'NE, verb intransitive [Latin emano.] To issue or flow from.
But this is not an elegant word. [See Emanate.]
EM'ARGINATE
EM'ARGINATED, adjective [Latin margo, whence emargino.]
1. In botany, notched at the end; applied to the leaf, corol or stigma.
2. In mineralogy, having all the edges of the primitive form truncated, each by one face.
EM`ARGINATED, a. [L. margo, whence emargino.]
1. In botany, notched at the end; applied to the leaf, corol or stigma.2. In mineralogy, having all the edges of the primitive form truncated, each by one face.EM'ARGINATELY, adverb In the form of notches.
EM'ASCULATE, verb transitive [Low Latin emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.]
1. To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; to deprive of virility.
2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Women emasculate a monarch's reign.
To emasculate the spirits.
EM'ASCULATE, adjective Unmanned; deprived of vigor.
EM'ASCULATED, participle passive Castrated; weakened.
EM'ASCULATING, participle present tense Castrating; felding; depriving of vigor.
EMASCULA'TION, noun The act of depriving a male of the parts which characterize the sex; castration.
1. The act of depriving of vigor or strength; effeminacy; unmanly weakness.
EMBA'LE, verb transitive
1. To make up into a bundle, bale or package; to pack.
2. To bind; to inclose.
EMB'ALM, verb transitive emb'am.
1. To open a dead body, take out the intestines, and fill their place with odoriferous and desiccative spices and drugs, to prevent its putrefaction.
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. Genesis 50:2.
2. To fill with sweet scent.
3. To preserve, with care and affection, from loss or decay.
The memory of my beloved daughter is embalmed in my heart.
Virtue alone, with lasting grace, Embalms the beauties of the face.
EMB'ALMED, participle passive Filled with aromatic plants for preservation; preserved from loss or destruction.
EMB'ALMER, noun One who embalms bodies for preservation.
EMB'ALMING, participle present tense Filling a dead body with spices for preservation; preserving with care from loss, decay or destruction.
EMB'AR, verb transitive [en and bar.] To shut, close or fasten with a bar; to make fast.
1. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape.
When fast embarr'd in mighty brazen wall.
2. To stop; to shut from entering; to hinder; to block up.
He embarred all further trade.
EMBARCA'TION, noun Embarkation, which see.
EMB'ARGO, noun In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited time. Most generally it is a prohibition of ships to leave a port.
EMB'ARGO, verb transitive To hinder or prevent ships from sailing out of port, or into port, or both, by some law or edict of sovereign authority, for a limited time. Our ships were for a time embargoed by a law of congress.
1. To stop to hinder from being prosecuted by the departure or entrance of ships. The commerce of the United States has been embargoed.
EMB'ARGOED, participle passive Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.
EMB'ARGOING, participle present tense Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.
EMB'ARK, verb transitive
1. To put or cause to enter on board a ship or other vessel or boat. The general embarked his troops and their baggage.
2. To engage a person in any affair. This projector embarked his friends in the design or expedition.
EMB'ARK, verb intransitive To go on board of a ship, boat or vessel; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
1. To engage in any business; to undertake in; to take a share in. The young man embarked rashly in speculation, and was ruined.
EMBARKA'TION, noun The act of putting on board of a ship or other vessel, or the act of going aboard.
1. That which is embarked; as an embarkation of Jesuits.
2. A small vessel, or boat. [Unusual.]
EMB'ARKED, participle passive Put on shipboard; engaged in any affair.
EMB'ARKING, participle present tense Putting on board of a ship or boat; going on shipboard.
EMBAR'RASS, verb transitive
1. To perplex; to render intricate; to entangle. We say, public affairs are embarrassed; the state of our accounts is embarrassed; want of order tends to embarrass business.
2. To perplex, as the mind or intellectual faculties; to confuse. Our ideas are sometimes embarrassed.
3. To perplex, as with debts, or demands, beyond the means of payment; applied to a person or his affairs. In mercantile language, a man or his business is embarrassed, when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements.
4. To perplex; to confuse; to disconcert; to abash. An abrupt address may embarrass a young lady. A young man may be too much embarrassed to utter a word.
EMBAR'RASSED, participle passive Perplexed; rendered intricate; confused; confounded.
EMBAR'RASSING, participle present tense Perplexing; entangling; confusing; confounding; abashing.
EMBAR'RASSMENT, noun Perplexity; intricacy; entanglement.
1. Confusion of mind.
2. Perplexity arising from insolvency, or from temporary inability to discharge debts.
3. Confusion; abashment.
EMBA'SE, verb transitive [en and base.] To lower in value; to vitiate; to deprave; to impair.
The virtue--of a tree embased by the ground.
I have no ignoble end--that may embase my poor judgment.
1. To degrade; to vilify.
[This word is seldom used.]
EMBA'SEMENT, noun Act of depraving; depravation; deterioration.
EM'BASSADE, noun An embassy.
EMBAS'SADOR, noun
1. A minister of the highest rank employed by one prince or state, at the court of another, to manage the public concerns of his own prince or state, and representing the power and dignity of his sovereign. Embassadors are ordinary, when they reside permanently at a foreign court; or extraordinary, when they are sent on a special occasion. They are also called ministers. Envoys are ministers employed on special occasions, and are of less dignity.
2. In ludicrous language, a messenger.
EMBAS'SADRESS, noun The consort of an embassador.
1. A woman sent on a public message.
EM'BASSAGE, an embassy, is not used.
EM'BASSY, noun
1. The message or public function of an embassador; the charge or employment of a public minister, whether ambassador or envoy; the word signifies the message or commission itself, and the person or persons sent to convey or to execute it. We say the king sent an embassy meaning an envoy, minister, or ministers; or the king sent a person on an embassy The embassy consisted of three envoys. The embassy was instructed to inquire concerning the king's disposition.
2. A solemn message.
Eighteen centuries ago, the gospel went forth from Jerusalem on an embassy of mingled authority and love.
3. Ironically, an errand.
[The old orthography, ambassade, ambassage, being obsolete, and embassy established, I have rendered the orthography of embassador conformable to it in the initial letter.]
EMBAT'TLE, verb transitive [en and battle.] To arrange in order of battle; to array troops for battle.
On their embattled ranks the waves return.
1. To furnish with battlements.
EMBAT'TLE, verb intransitive To be ranged in order of battle.
EMBAT'TLED, participle passive Arrayed in order of battle.
1. Furnished with battlements; and in heraldry, having the outline resembling a battlement, as an ordinary.
2. Having been the place of battle; as an embattled plain or field.
EMBAT'TLING, participle present tense Ranging in battle array.
EMBA'Y, verb transitive [en, in, and bay.] To inclose in a bay or inlet; to land-lock; to inclose between capes or promontories.
1. To bathe; to wash. [Not used.]
EMBA'YED, participle passive Inclosed in a bay, or between points of land, as a ship.
EMBED', verb transitive [en, in, and bed.] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; as, to embed a thing in clay or in sand.
EMBED'DED, participle passive Laid as in a bed; deposited or inclosed in surrounding matter; as ore embedded in sand.
EMBED'DING, participle present tense Laying, depositing or forming, as in a bed.
EMBEL'LISH, verb transitive [Latin bellus, pretty.]
1. To adorn; to beautify; to decorate; to make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; applied to persons or things. We embellish the person with rich apparel, a garden with shrubs and flowers, and style with metaphors.
2. To make graceful or elegant; as, to embellish manners.
EMBEL'LISHED, participle passive Adorned; decorated; beautified.
EMBEL'LISHING, participle present tense Adorning; decorating; adding grace, ornament or elegance to a person or thing.
EMBEL'LISHMENT, noun The act of adorning.
1. Ornament; decoration; any thing that adds beauty or elegance; that which renders any thing pleasing to the eye, or agreeable to the taste, in dress, furniture, manners, or in the fine arts. Rich dresses are embellishments of the person. Virtue is an embellishment of the mind, and liberal arts, the embellishments of society.
EMBER, in ember-days, ember-weeks, is the Saxon emb-ren, or ymb-ryne, a circle, circuit or revolution, from ymb, around, and ren, or ryne, course, from the root of run. Ember-days are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, after Quadragesima Sunday, after Whitsunday, after Holyrood day in September, and after St. Lucia's day in December. Ember-days are days returning at certain seasons; Ember-weeks, the weeks in which these days fall; and formerly, our ancestors used the words Ember-fast and Ember-tide or season.
EM'BERING, noun The ember-days, supra.
EM'BERS, noun plural
Small coals of fire with ashes; the residuum of wood, coal or other combustibles not extinguished; cinders.
He rakes hot embers and renews the fires.
It is used by Colebrooke in the singular.
He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel.
EMBEZ'ZLE, verb transitive [Heb. signifies to plunder.]
1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use what is entrusted to one's care and management. It differs from stealing and robbery in this, that the latter imply a wrongful taking of another's goods, but embezzlement denotes the wrongful appropriation and use of what came into possession by right. It is not uncommon for men entrusted with public money to embezzle it.
2. To waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
When thou hast embezzled all thy store.
EMBEZ'ZLED, participle passive Appropriated wrongfully to one's own use.
EMBEZ'ZLEMENT, noun The act of fraudulently appropriating to one's own use, the money or goods entrusted to one's care and management. An accurate account of the embezzlements of public money would form a curious history.
1. The thing appropriated.
EMBEZ'ZLER, noun One who embezzles.
EMBEZ'ZLING, participle present tense Fraudulently applying to one's own use what is entrusted to one's care and employment.
EMBLA'ZE, verb transitive
1. To adorn with glittering embellishments.
No weeping orphan saw his father's stores
Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors.
2. To blazon; to paint or adorn with figures armorial.
The imperial ensign, streaming to the wind,
With gems and golden luster rich emblazed.
EMBLA'ZED, participle passive Adorned with shining ornaments, or with figures armorial.
EMBLA'ZING, participle present tense Embellishing with glittering ornaments, or with figures armorial.
EMBLA'ZON, verb transitive embla'zn.
1. To adorn with figures of heraldry or ensigns armorial.
2. To deck in glaring colors; to display pompously.
We find Augustus--emblazoned by the poets.
EMBLA'ZONED, participle passive Adorned with figures or ensigns armorial; set out pompously.
EMBLA'ZONER, noun A blazoner; one that emblazons; a herald.
1. One that publishes and displays with pomp.
EMBLA'ZONING, participle present tense Adorning with ensigns or figures armorial; displaying with pomp.
EMBLA'ZONMENT, noun An emblazoning.
EMBLA'ZONRY, noun Pictures on shields; display of figures.
EM'BLEM, noun [Gr. to cast in, to insert.]
1. Properly, inlay; inlayed or mosaic work; something inserted in the body of another.
2. A picture representing one thing to the eye, and another to the understanding; a painted enigma, or a figure representing some obvious history, instructing us in some moral truth. Such is the image of Scaevola holding his hand in the fire, with these words, 'agere et pati fortiter Romanum est.' to do and to suffer with fortitude is Roman.
3. A painting or representation, intended to hold forth some moral or political instruction; an allusive picture; a typical designation. A balance is an emblem of justice; a crown is the emblem of royalty; a scepter, of power or sovereignty.
4. That which represents another thing in its predominant qualities. A white robe in scripture is an emblem of purity or righteousness; baptism, of purification.
EM'BLEM, verb transitive To represent by similar qualities.
EMBLEMAT'IC
EMBLEMAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to or comprising an emblem.
1. Representing by some allusion or customary connection; as, a crown is emblematic of royalty, a crown being worn by kings.
2. Representing by similar qualities; as, whiteness is emblematic of purity.
3. Using emblems; as emblematic worship.
EMBLEMAT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to or comprising an emblem.
1. Representing by some allusion or customary connection; as, a crown is emblematic of royalty, a crown being worn by kings.2. Representing by similar qualities; as, whiteness is emblematic of purity.3. Using emblems; as emblematic worship.EMBLEMAT'ICALLY, adverb By way or means of emblems; in the manner of emblems; by way of allusive representation.
EMBLEM'ATIST, noun A writer or inventor of emblems.
EM'BLEMENT, noun used mostly in the plural.
The produce or fruits of land sown or planted. This word is used for the produce of land sown or planted by a tenant for life or years, whose estate is determined suddenly after the land is sown or planted and before harvest. In this case the tenant's executors shall have the emblements. Emblements comprehend not only corn, but the produce of any annual plant. But the produce of grass and perennial plants belongs to the lord, or proprietor of the land.
EM'BLEMIZE, verb transitive To represent by an emblem.
EM'BLEMIZED, participle passive Represented by an emblem.
EM'BLEMIZING, participle present tense Representing by an emblem.
EMBLOOM', verb transitive To cover or enrich with bloom.
EMBOD'IED, participle passive [See Embody.] Collected or formed into a body.
EMBOD'Y, verb transitive [en, in, and body.] To form or collect into a body or united mass; to collect into a whole; to incorporate; to concentrate; as, to embody troops; to embody detached sentiments.
EMBOD'YING, participle present tense Collecting or forming into a body.
EMBO'GUING, noun The mouth of a river or place where its waters are discharged into the sea. [An ill formed word.]
EMBOLDEN, verb transitive [en and bold.] To give boldness or courage; to encourage. l Cor.8.
EMBOLDENED, participle passive Encouraged.
EMBOLDENING, participle present tense Giving courage or boldness.
EM'BOLISM, noun [Gr. to throw in, to insert.]
1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity. The Greeks made use of the lunar year of 354 days, and to adjust it to the solar year of 365, they added a lunar month every second or third year, which additional month they called embolimaeus.
2. Intercalated time.
EMBOLIS'MAL, adjective Pertaining to intercalation; intercalated; inserted.
The embolismal months are either natural or civil.
EMBOLIS'MIC, adjective Intercalated; inserted.
Twelve lunations form a common year; and thirteen, the embolismic year.
EM'BOLUS, noun [Gr. to thrust in.] Something inserted or acting in another; that which thrusts or drives; a piston.
EMBOR'DER, verb transitive To adorn with a border.
EMBOSS', verb transitive [en, in, and boss.] In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.
1. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances.
2. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell.
EMBOSS', verb transitive To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.]
EMBOSS', verb transitive To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.]
EMBOSS'ED, participle passive Formed with bosses or raised figures.
EMBOSS'ING, participle present tense Forming with figures in relievo.
EMBOSS'MENT, noun A prominence, like a boss; a jut.
1. Relief; figures in relievo; raised work.
EMBOT'TLE, verb transitive [en, in, and bottle.] To put in a bottle; to bottle; to include or confine in a bottle.
EMBOT'TLED, participle passive Put in or included in bottles.
EMBOW, verb transitive To form like a bow; to arch; to vault.
EMBOW'EL, verb transitive [en, in, and bowel.] To take out the entrails of an animal body; to eviscerate.
1. To take out the internal parts.
Fossils and minerals that the emboweled earth
Displays.
2. To sink or inclose in another substance.
EMBOW'ELED, participle passive Deprived of intestines; eviscerated; buried.
EMBOW'ELER, noun One that takes out the bowels.
EMBOW'ELING, participle present tense Depriving of entrails; eviscerating; burying.
EMBOW'ER, verb intransitive [from bower.] To lodge or rest in a bower.
EMBRA'CE, verb transitive
1. To take, clasp or inclose in the arms; to press to the bosom, in token of affection.
Paul called to him the disciples and embraced them. Acts 20:1.
2. To seize eagerly; to lay hold on; to receive or take with willingness that which is offered; as, to embrace the christian religion; to embrace the opportunity of doing a favor.
3. To comprehend; to include or take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
4. To comprise; to inclose; to encompass; to contain; to encircle.
Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed,
Between the mountain and the stream embraced.
5. To receive; to admit.
6. To find; to take; to accept.
Fleance--must embrace the fate
Of that dark hour.
7. To have carnal intercourse with.
8. To put on.
9. To attempt to influence a jury corruptly.
EMBRA'CE, verb intransitive To join in an embrace
EMBRA'CE, noun Inclosure or clasp with the arms; pressure to the bosom with the arms.
1. Reception of one thing into another.
2. Sexual intercourse; conjugal endearment.
EMBRA'CED, participle passive Inclosed in the arms; clasped to the bosom; seized; laid hold on; received; comprehended; included; contained; accepted.
1. Influenced corruptly; biassed; as a juror.
EMBRA'CEMENT, noun A clasp in the arms; a hug; embrace.
1. Hostile hug; grapple. [Little used.]
2. Comprehension; state of being contained; inclosure. [Little used.]
3. Conjugal endearment; sexual commerce.
4. Willing acceptance. [Little used.]
EMBRA'CER, noun The person who embraces.
1. One who attempts to influence a jury corruptly.
EMBRA'CERY, noun In law, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly to one side, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, or the like.
EMBRA'CING, participle present tense Clasping in the arms; pressing to the bosom; seizing and holding; comprehending; including; receiving; accepting; having conjugal intercourse.
1. Attempting to influence a jury corruptly.
EMBRA'ID, verb transitive To upbraid.
EMBRASU'RE, noun s as z.
1. An opening in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged.
2. In architecture, the enlargement of the aperture of a door or window, on the inside of the wall, for giving greater play for the opening of the door or casement, or for admitting more light.
EMBRA'VE, verb transitive [See Brave.] To embellish; to make showy.
1. To inspire with bravery; to make bold.
EM'BROCATE, verb transitive [Gr. to moisten, to rain.]
In surgery and medicine, to moisten and rub a diseased part of the body, with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or spunge.
EM'BROCATED, participle passive Moistened and rubbed with a wet cloth or spunge.
EM'BROCATING, participle present tense Moistening and rubbing a diseased part with a wet cloth or spunge.
EMBROCA'TION, noun The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part, with a cloth or spunge, dipped in some liquid substance, as spirit, oil. etc.
1. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed or washed.
EMBROID'ER, verb transitive To border with ornamental needle-work, or figures; to adorn with raised figures of needle-work; as cloth, stuffs or muslin.
Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine line. Exodus 28:39.
EMBROID'ERED, participle passive Adorned with figures of needle-work.
EMBROID'ERER, noun One who embroiders.
EMBROID'ERING, participle present tense Ornamenting with figured needle-work.
EMBROID'ERY, noun Work in gold, silver or silk thread, formed by the needle on cloth, stuffs and muslin, into various figures; variegated needle-work.
1. Variegation or diversity of figures and colors; as the natural embroidery of meadows.
EMBROIL', verb transitive
1. To perplex or entangle; to intermix in confusion.
The christian antiquities at Rome--are embroiled with fable and legend.
2. To involve in troubles or perplexities; to disturb or distract by connection with something else; to throw into confusion or commotion; to perplex.
The royal house embroiled in civil war.
EMBROIL'ED, participle passive Perplexed; entangled; intermixed and confused; involved in trouble.
EMBROIL'ING, participle present tense Perplexing; entangling; involving in trouble.
EMBROIL'MENT, noun Confusion; disturbance.
EMBROTH'EL, verb transitive [See Brothel.] To inclose in a brothel.
EM'BRYO
EM'BRYON, noun [Latin embryon; Gr. to shoot, bud, germinate. The Greek word is contracted, and if so, it coincides in elements with Eng. brood and breed.]
In physiology, the first rudiments of an animal in the womb, before the several members are distinctly formed; after which it is called a fetus.
1. The rudiments of a plant.
2. The beginning or first state of any thing not fit for production; the rudiments of any thing yet imperfectly formed.
The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo
EM'BRYO
EM'BRYON, adjective Pertaining to or noting any thing in its first rudiments or unfinished state; as an embryon bud.
EM'BRYON, n. [L. embryon; Gr. to shoot, bud, germinate. The Greek word is contracted, and if so, it coincides in elements with Eng. brood and breed.]
In physiology, the first rudiments of an animal in the womb, before the several members are distinctly formed; after which it is called a fetus.
1. The rudiments of a plant.2. The beginning or first state of any thing not fit for production; the rudiments of any thing yet imperfectly formed.The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.EMBRYOT'OMY, noun [embryo and Gr. a cutting, to cut.]
A cutting or forcible separation of the fetus in utero.
EMBUSY, verb transitive To employ. [Not used.]
EMEND', verb transitive To amend. [Not used.]
EMEND'ABLE, adjective [Latin emendabilis, from emendo, to correct; e and menda, a spot or blemish.] Capable of being amended or corrected. [See Amendable.]
EMENDA'TION, noun [Latin emendatio.] The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; applied particularly to the correction of errors in writings. When we speak of like and manners, we use amend, amendment, the French orthography.
1. An alteration for the better; correction of an error or fault.
The last edition of the book contains many emendations.
EMENDA'TOR, noun A corrector of errors or faults in writings; one who corrects or improves.
EMEND'ATORY, adjective Contributing to emendation or correction.
EM'ERALD, noun [Latin smaragdus.] A mineral and a precious stone, whose colors are a pure, lively green, varying to a pale, yellowish, bluish, or grass green. It is always crystallized, and almost always appears in regular, hexahedral prisms, more or less perfect, and sometimes slightly modified by truncations on the edges, or on the solid angles. It is a little harder than quartz, becomes electric by friction, is often transparent, sometimes only translucent, and before the blowpipe is fusible into a whitish enamel or glass. The finest emeralds have been found in Peru.
The subspecies of emerald are the precious emerald and the beryl.
EMERGE, verb intransitive emerj'. [Latin emergo; e, ex, and mergo, to plunge.]
1. To rise out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding substance; as, to emerge from the water or from the ocean.
That is--emerging from the deep.
We say, a planet emerges from the sun's light; a star emerging from chaos. It is opposed to immerge.
2. To issue; to proceed from.
3. To reappear, after being eclipsed; to leave the sphere of the obscuring object.
The sun is said to emerge when the moon ceases to obscure its light; the satellites of Jupiter emerge when they appear beyond the limb of the planet.
4. To rise out of a state of depression or obscurity; to rise into view; as, to emerge from poverty or obscurity; to emerge from the gloom of despondency.
EMERG'ENCE
EMERG'ENCY, noun The act of rising out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding matter.
1. The act of rising or starting into view; the act of issuing from or quitting.
The white color of all refracted light, at its first emergence--is compounded of various colors.
2. That which comes suddenly; a sudden occasion; an unexpected event.
Most of our rarities have been found out by casual emergency.
In case of emergency, [or in an emergency] he would employ the whole wealth of his empire.
EMERG'ENCY, n. The act of rising out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding matter.
1. The act of rising or starting into view; the act of issuing from or quitting.The white color of all refracted light, at its first emergence--is compounded of various colors.2. That which comes suddenly; a sudden occasion; an unexpected event.Most of our rarities have been found out by casual emergency.In case of emergency, [or in an emergency] he would employ the whole wealth of his empire.EMERG'ENT, adjective Rising out of a fluid or any thing that covers or surrounds.
The mountains huge appear emergent
1. Issuing or proceeding from.
2. Rising out of a depressed state or from obscurity.
3. Coming suddenly; sudden; casual; unexpected; hence, calling for immediate action or remedy; urgent; pressing; as an emergent occasion.
EMER'ITED, adjective [Latin emeritus.] Allowed to have done public service.
EM'ERODS, noun With a plural termination. [Corrupted from hemorrhoids, Gr. to labor under a flowing of blood.]
Hemorrhoids; piles; a dilatation of the veins about the rectum, with a discharge of blood.
The Lord will smite thee--with the emerods Deuteronomy 28:27.
EMER'SION, noun [from Latin emergo. See Emerge.]
1. The act of rising out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding substance; opposed to immersion.
2. In astronomy, the reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse, as the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; also, the time of reappearance.
3.. The reappearance of a star, which has been hid by the effulgence of the sun's light.
4. Extrication.
EM'ERY, noun [Gr. and Latin smiris.] A mineral, said to be a compact variety of corundum, being equal to it in hardness. It is always amorphous; its structure finely granular; its color varying from a deep gray to a bluish or blackish gray, sometimes brownish. This is almost indispensable in polishing metals and hard stones. The lapidaries cut ordinary gems on their wheels, by sprinkling them with the moistened powder of emery; but it will not cut the diamond.
EMET'IC, adjective [Gr. to vomit.] Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the oesophagus and mouth.
EMET'IC, noun A medicine that provokes vomiting.
EMET'ICALLY, adverb In such a manner as to excite vomiting.
EM'ETIN, noun [See Emetic.] A substance obtained from the root of ipecacuana, half a grain of which is a powerful emetic.
E'MEW, noun A name of the Cassowary.
EMICA'TION, noun [Latin emicatio, emico, from e and mico, to sparkle, that is, to dart.]
A sparkling; a flying off in small particles, as from heated iron or fermenting liquors.
EMIC'TION, noun [Latin mingo, mictum.] The discharging of urine; urine; what is voided by the urinary passages.
EM'IGRANT, adjective [See Emigrate.] Removing from one place or country to another distant place with a view to reside.
EM'IGRANT, noun One who removes his habitation, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
EM'IGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin emigro; e and migro, to migrate.]
To quit one country, state or region and settle in another; to remove from one country or state to another for the purpose of residence. Germans, Swiss, Irish and Scotch, emigrate in great numbers, to America. Inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States.
EM'IGRATING, participle present tense Removing from one country or state to another for residence.
EMIGRA'TION, noun Removal of inhabitants from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.
The removal of persons from house to house in the same town, state or kingdom is not called emigration but simple removal.
EM'INENCE
EM'INENCY, noun [Latin eminentia, from eminens, emineo, to stand or show itself above; e and minor, to threaten, that is, to stand or push forward.]
1. Elevation, highth, in a literal sense; but usually, a rising ground; a hill of moderate elevation above the adjacent ground.
The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence
2. Summit; highest part.
3. A part rising or projecting beyond the rest, or above the surface. We speak of eminences on any plain or smooth surface.
4. An elevated situation among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office or celebrity. Merit may place a man on an eminence and make him conspicuous. eminence is always exposed to envy.
5. Exaltation; high rank; distinction; celebrity; fame; preferment; conspicuousness.
Office, rank and great talents give eminence to men in society.
Where men cannot arrive at eminence religion may make compensation, by teaching content.
6. Supreme degree.
7. Notice; distinction.
8. A title of honor given to cardinals and others.
EM'INENCY, n. [L. eminentia, from eminens, emineo, to stand or show itself above; e and minor, to threaten, that is, to stand or push forward.]
1. Elevation, highth, in a literal sense; but usually, a rising ground; a hill of moderate elevation above the adjacent ground.The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence.2. Summit; highest part.3. A part rising or projecting beyond the rest, or above the surface. We speak of eminences on any plain or smooth surface.4. An elevated situation among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office or celebrity. Merit may place a man on an eminence, and make him conspicuous. Eminence is always exposed to envy.5. Exaltation; high rank; distinction; celebrity; fame; preferment; conspicuousness.Office, rank and great talents give eminence to men in society.Where men cannot arrive at eminence, religion may make compensation, by teaching content.6. Supreme degree.7. Notice; distinction.8. A title of honor given to cardinals and others.EM'INENT, adjective [Latin eminens, from emineo.]
1. High; lofty; as an eminent place. Ezekiel 16:24.
2. Exalted in rank; high in office; dignified; distinguished. Princes hold eminent stations in society, as do ministers, judges and legislators.
3. High in public estimation; conspicuous; distinguished above others; remarkable; as an eminent historian or poet; an eminent scholar. Burke was an eminent orator; Watts and Cowper were eminent for their piety.
EM'INENTLY, adverb In a high degree; in a degree to attract observation; in a degree to be conspicuous and distinguished from others; as, to be eminently learned or useful.
E'MIR, noun [Heb. to speak.] A title of dignity among the Turks, denoting a prince; a title at first given to the Caliphs, but when they assumed the title of Sultan, that of emir remained to their children. At length it was attributed to all who were judged to descend from Mohammed, by his daughter Fatimah.
EM'ISSARY, noun [Latin emissarius, from emitto; e and mitto, to send.]
A person sent on a mission; a missionary employed to preach and propagate the gospel.
If one of the four gospels be genuine, we have, in that one, strong reason to believe, that we posses the accounts which the original emissaries of the religion delivered.
[This sense is now unusual.]
2. A person sent on a private message or business; a secret agent, employed to sound or ascertain the opinions of others, and to spread reports or propagate opinions favorable to his employer, or designed to defeat the measures or schemes of his opposers or foes; a spy; but an emissary may differ from a spy. A spy in war is one who enters an enemy's camp or territories to learn the condition of the enemy; an emissary may be a secret agent employed not only to detect the schemes of an opposing party, but to influence their councils. A spy in war must be concealed, or he suffers death; an emissary may in some cases be known as the agent of an adversary, without incurring similar hazard.
3. That which sends out or emits. [Not used.]
Emissary vessels, in anatomy, the same as excretory.
EM'ISSARY, adjective Exploring; spying.
EMIS'SION, noun [Latin emissio, from emitto, to send out.] The act of sending or throwing out; as the emission of light from the sun or other luminous body; the emission of odors from plants; the emission of heat from a fire.
1. The act of sending abroad or into circulation notes of a state or of a private corporation; as the emission of state notes, or bills of credit, or treasury notes.
2. That which is sent out or issued at one time; an impression or a number of notes issued by one act of government. We say, notes or bills of various emissions were in circulation.
EMIT', verb transitive [Latin emitto; e and mitto, to send.]
1. To send forth; to throw or give out; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun and moon emit light; animal bodies emit perspirable matter; putrescent substances emit offensive or noxious exhalations.
2. To let fly; to discharge; to dart or shoot; as, to emit an arrow. [Unusual.]
3. To issue forth, as an order or decree. [Unusual.]
4. To issue, as notes or bills of credit; to print, and send into circulation. The United States have once emitted treasury notes.
No state shall emit bills of credit.
EMMEN'AGOGUE, noun [Gr. menstruous, in month, and to lead.]
A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
EM'MET, noun An ant or pismire.
EMMEW', verb transitive [See Mew.] To mew; to coop up; to confine in a coop or cage.
EMMOVE, verb transitive To move; to rouse; to excite. [Not used.]
EMOLLES'CENCE, noun [Latin emollescens, softening. See Emolliate.]
In metallurgy, that degree of softness in a fusible body which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
EMOL'LIATE, verb transitive [Latin emollio, mollio, to soften; mollis, soft; Eng. mellow, mild.]
To soften; to render effeminate.
Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valor.
[This is a new word, though well formed and applied; but what connection is there between softening and forgetting? Lost is here the proper word for forgotten.]
EMOL'LIATED, participle passive Softened; rendered effeminate.
EMOL'LIATING, pr. Softening; rendering effeminate.
EMOL'LIENT, adjective Softening; making supple; relaxing the solids.
Barley is emollient
EMOL'LIENT, noun A medicine which softens and relaxes, or sheaths the solids; that which softens or removes the asperities of the humors.
EMOLLI'TION, noun The act of softening or relaxing.
EMOL'UMENT, noun [Latin emolumentum, from emolo, molo, to grind. Originally, toll taken for grinding. See Mill.]
1. The profit arising from office or employment; that which is received as a compensation for services, or which is annexed to the possession of office, as salary, feels and perquisites.
2. Profit; advantage; gains in general.
EMOLUMENT'AL, adjective Producing profit; useful; profitable; advantageous.
Emongst, for among, in Spenser, is a mistake.
EMO'TION, noun [Latin emotio; emoveo, to move from.]
1. Literally, a moving of the mind or soul; hence, any agitation of mind or excitement of sensibility.
2. In a philosophical sense, an internal motion or agitation of the mind which passes away without desire; when desire follows, the motion or agitation is called a passion.
3. Passion is the sensible effect, the feeling to which the mind is subjected, when an object of importance suddenly and imperiously demands its attention. The state of absolute passiveness, in consequence of any sudden percussion of mind, is of short duration. The strong impression, or vivid sensation, immediately produces a reaction correspondent to its nature, either to appropriate and enjoy, or avoid and repel the exciting cause. This reaction is very properly distinguished by the term emotion
Emotions therefore, according to the genuine signification of the word, are principally and primarily applicable to the sensible changes and visible effects, which particular passions produce on the frame, in consequence of this reaction, or particular agitation of mind.
EMPA'IR, verb transitive To impair. [See Impair.]
EMPA'LE, verb transitive [Latin palus.]
1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to set a line of stakes or posts for defense.
All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise.
[We now use stockade, in a like sense.]
2. To inclose; to surround.
Round about her work she did empale
With a fair border wrought of sundry flowers.
3. To inclose; to shut in.
Impenetrable, empal'd with circling fire.
4. To thrust a stake up the fundament, and thus put to death; to put to death by fixing on a stake; a punishment formerly practiced in Rome, and still used in Turkey.
EMPA'LED, participle passive Fenced or fortified with stakes; inclosed; shut in; fixed on a state.
EMPA'LEMENT, noun A fencing, fortifying or inclosing with stakes; a putting to death by thrusting a stake into the body.
1. In botany, the calyx or flower-cup of a plant, which surrounds the fructification, like a fence of pales.
2. In heraldry, a conjunction of coats of arms, pale-wise.
EMPA'LING, participle present tense Fortifying with pales or stakes; inclosing; putting to death on a stake.
EMPAN'NEL, noun [Eng. pane, a square. See Pane and Pannel.]
A list of jurors; a small piece of paper or parchment containing the names of the jurors summoned by the sheriff. It is now written pannel, which see.
EMPAN'NEL, verb transitive To form a list of jurors. It is now written impannel, which see.
EMP'ARK, verb transitive [in and park.] To inclose as with a fence.
EMPAR'LANCE, noun [See Imparlance.]
EMPASM, noun empazm'. [Gr. to sprinkle.] A powder used to prevent the bad scent of the body.
EMPAS'SION, verb transitive To move with passion; to affect strongly. [See Impassion.]
EMPEACH, [See Impeach.]
EMPE'OPLE, verb transitive empee'pl. To form into a people or community. [Little used.]
EM'PERESS. [See Empress.]
EMPER'ISHED, adjective [See Perish.] Decayed. [Not in use.]
EM'PEROR, noun [Latin imperator, from impero, to command.]
Literally, the commander of an army. In modern times, the sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; a title of dignity superior to that of king; as the emperor of Germany or of Russia.
EM'PERY, noun Empire.
EM'PHASIS, noun In rhetoric, a particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given to the words or parts of a discourse, whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience; or a distinctive utterance of words, specially significant, with a degree and kind of stress suited to convey their meaning in the best manner.
The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it.
EMPHASIZE, verb transitive To utter or pronounce with a particular or more forcible stress of voice; as, to emphasize a word, for the purpose of rendering the sense more distinct or impressive than other words in the sentence.
EMPHAT'IC
EMPHAT'ICAL, adjective Forcible; strong; impressive; as an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.
1. Requiring emphasis; as an emphatical word.
2. Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.
3. Striking to the eye; as emphatic colors.
EMPHAT'ICAL, a. Forcible; strong; impressive; as an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.
1. Requiring emphasis; as an emphatical word.2. Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.3. Striking to the eye; as emphatic colors.EMPHAT'ICALLY, adverb With emphasis; strongly; forcibly; in a striking manner.
1. According to appearance. [Not used.]
EM'PHYSEM, noun [Gr. to inflate.] In surgery, a puffy tumor, easily yielding to pressure, but returning to its former state, as soon as that pressure is removed. A swelling of the integuments, from the admission of air into the cellular membrane.
EMPHYSE'MA
EMPHYSEM'ATOUS, adjective Pertaining to emphysema; swelled, bloated, but yielding easily to pressure.
EMPHYSEM'ATOUS, a. Pertaining to emphysema; swelled, bloated, but yielding easily to pressure.
EMPHYTEU'TIC, c. [Gr. a planting, to plant.]
Taken on hire; that for which rent is to be paid; as emphyteutic lands.
EMPIERCE, verb transitive empers' [em, in, and pierce.] To pierce into; to penetrate. [Not used.]
EMPIGHT, adjective [from pight, to fix.] Fixed.
EM'PIRE, noun [Latin imperium; See Emperor.]
1. Supreme power in governing; supreme dominion; sovereignty; imperial power. No nation can rightfully claim the empire of the ocean.
2. The territory, region or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor. An empire is usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, which may be and often is a territory of small extent. Thus we say, the Russian empire; the Austrian empire; the sovereigns of which are denominated emperors. The British dominions are called an empire and since the union of Ireland, the parliament is denominated the imperial parliament, but the sovereign is called king. By custom in Europe, the empire means the German empire; and in juridical acts, it is called the holy Roman empire Hence, we say, the diet of the empire; the circles of the empire; etc. But the German empire no longer exists; the states of Germany now form a confederacy.
3. Supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as the empire of reason, or of truth.
4. Any region, land or water, over which dominion is extended; as the empire of the sea.
EM'PIRIC, noun [Gr. to attempt; Latin empiricus.]
Literally, one who makes experiments. Hence its appropriate signification is, a physician who enters on practice without a regular professional education, and relies on the success of his own experience. Hence, the word is used also for a quack, an ignorant pretender to medical skill, a charlatan.
EMPIR'IC
EMPIR'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to experiments or experience.
1. Versed in experiments; as an empiric alchimist.
2. Known only by experience; derived from experiment; used and applied without science; as empiric skill; empiric remedies.
I have avoided that empirical morality that cures one vice by means of another.
EMPIR'ICALLY, adverb By experiment; according to experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
EMPIR'ICISM, noun Dependence of a physician on his experience in practice, without the aid of a regular medical education.
1. The practice of medicine without a medical education. Hence, quackery; the pretensions of a ignorant man to medical skill.
Shudder to destroy life, either by the naked knife, or by the surer and safer medium of empiricism
EMPL'ASTER, noun [Gr. a plaster.] [See Plaster, which is not used.]
EMPL'ASTER, verb transitive To cover with a plaster.
EMPL'ASTIC, adjective [Gr.] See Plaster, Plastic.] Viscous; glutinous; adhesive; fit to be applied as a plaster; as emplastic applications.
EMPLE'AD, verb transitive [em and plead.] To charge with a crime; to accuse. but it is now written implead, which see.
EMPLOY', verb transitive [Latin plico.]
1. To occupy the time, attention and labor of; to keep busy, or at work; to use. We employ our hands in labor; we employ our heads or faculties in study or thought; the attention is employed, when the mind is fixed or occupied upon an object; we employ time, when we devote it to an object. A portion of time should be daily employed in reading the scriptures, meditation and prayer; a great portion of life is employed to little profit or to very bad purposes.
2. To use as an instrument or means. We employ pens in writing, and arithmetic in keeping accounts. We employ medicines in curing diseases.
3. To use as materials in forming any thing. We employ timber, stones or bricks, in building; we employ wool, linen and cotton, in making cloth.
4. To engage in one's service; to use as an agent or substitute in transacting business; to commission and entrust with the management of one's affairs. The president employed an envoy to negotiate a treaty. Kings and States employ embassadors at foreign courts.
5. To occupy; to use; to apply or devote to an object; to pass in business; as, to employ time; to employ an hour, a day or a week; to employ one's life.
To employ one's self, is to apply or devote one's time and attention; to busy one's self.
EMPLOY', noun That which engages the mind, or occupies the time and labor of a person; business; object of study or industry; employment.
Present to grasp, and future still to find,
The whole employ of body and of mind.
1. Occupation, as art, mystery, trade, profession.
2. Public office; agency; service for another.
EMPLOY'ABLE, adjective That may be employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.
EMPLOY'ED, participle passive Occupied; fixed or engaged; applied in business; used in agency.
EMPLOY'ER, noun One who employs; one who uses; one who engages or keeps in service.
EMPLOY'ING, participle present tense Occupying; using; keeping busy.
EMPLOY'MENT, noun The act of employing or using.
1. Occupation; business; that which engages the head or hands; as agricultural employments; mechanical employments. Men, whose employment is to make sport and amusement for others, are always despised.
2. Office; public business or trust; agency or service for another or for the public. The secretary of the treasury has a laborious and responsible employment He is in the employment of government.
EMPLUNGE, [See Plunge.]
EMPOIS'ON, verb transitive s as z.
1. To poison; to administer poison to; to destroy or endanger life by giving or causing to be taken into the stomach any noxious drug or preparation. [In this sense, poison is generally used; but empoison may be used, especially in poetry.]
2. To taint with poison or venom; to render noxious or deleterious by an admixture of poisonous substance. [This may be used, especially in poetry.]
3. To embitter; to deprive of sweetness; as, to empoison the joys and pleasure of life.
EMPOIS'ONED, participle passive Poisoned; tainted with venom; embittered.
EMPOIS'ONER, noun One who poisons; one who administers a deleterious drug; he or that which embitters.
EMPOIS'ONING, participle present tense Poisoning; embittering.
EMPOIS'ONMENT, noun The act of administering poison, or causing it to be taken; the act of destroying life by a deleterious drug.
EMPO'RIUM, noun [Latin from the Gr. to buy; to pass or go.]
1. A place of merchandize; a town or city of trade; particularly, a city or town of extensive commerce, or in which the commerce of an extensive country centers, or to which sellers and buyers resort from different countries. Such are London, Amsterdam and Hamburg. New York will be an emporium
2. in medicine, the common sensory in the brain.
EMPOV'ERISH, [See Impoverish.]
EMPOW'ER, verb transitive [from en or in and power.]
1. To give legal or moral power or authority to; to authorize, either by law, commission, letter of attorney, natural right, or by verbal license. The supreme court is empowered to try and decide all cases, civil or criminal. The attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance and discharge the debtor.
2. To give physical power or force; to enable. [In this sense the use is not frequent, and perhaps not used at all.]
EMPOW'ERED, participle passive Authorized; having legal or moral right.
EMPOW'ERING, participle present tense Authorizing; giving power.
EM'PRESS, noun [Contracted from emperess. See Emperor.] The consort or spouse of an emperor.
1. A female who governs an empire; a female invested with imperial power or sovereignty.
EMPRI'SE, noun s as z. [Norm; em, en, and prise, from prendre, to take.] An undertaking; an enterprise.
[This word is now rarely or never used, except in poetry.]
EMP'TIER, noun One that empties or exhausts.
EMP'TINESS, noun [from empty.] A state of being empty; a state of containing nothing except air; destitution; absence of matter; as the emptiness of a vessel.
1. Void space; vacuity; vacuum.
2. Want of solidity or substance; as the emptiness of light and shade.
3. Unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; as the emptiness of earthly things.
4. Vacuity of head; want of intellect or knowledge.
EMP'TION, noun [Latin emptio, from emo, to buy.] The act of buying; a purchasing. [Not much used.]
EMP'TY, adjective
1. Containing nothing, or nothing but air; as an empty chest; empty space; an empty purse is a serious evil.
2. Evacuated; not filled; as empty shackles.
3. Unfurnished; as an empty room.
4. Void; devoid.
In civility thou seemest so empty
5. Void; destitute of solid matter; as empty air.
6. Destitute of force or effect; as empty words.
7. Unsubstantial; unsatisfactory; not able to fill the mind or the desires. The pleasures of life are empty and unsatisfying.
Pleased with empty praise.
8. Not supplied; having nothing to carry.
They beat him, and sent him away empty Mark 12:3.
9. Hungry.
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty
10. Unfurnished with intellect or knowledge; vacant of head; ignorant; as an empty coxcomb.
11. Unfruitful; producing nothing.
Israel is an empty vine. Hosca 10.
Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. Genesis 41:27.
12. Wanting substance; wanting solidity; as empty dreams.
13. Destitute; waste; desolate.
Nineveh is empty Nahum 2.
14. Without effect.
The sword of Saul returned not empty 2 Samuel 1:22.
15. Without a cargo; in ballast; as, the ship returned empty
EMP'TY, verb transitive To exhaust; to make void or destitute; to deprive of the contents; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
1. To pour out the contents.
The clouds empty themselves on the earth. Ecclesiastes 11:3.
Rivers empty themselves into the ocean.
2. To waste; to make desolate. Jeremiah 51:2.
EMP'TY, verb intransitive To pour out or discharge its contents.
The Connecticut empties into the Sound.
1. To become empty
EMP'TYING, participle present tense Pouring out the contents; making void.
EMP'TYINGS, noun The lees of beer, cider, etc.
EMPUR'PLE, verb transitive [from purple.] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to discolor with purple
The deep empurpled ran.
EMPUR'PLED, participle passive Stained with a purple color.
EMPUR'PLING, participle present tense Tinging or dyeing of a purple color.
EMPU'SE, noun A phantom or specter. [Not used.]
EMPUZ'ZLE. [See Puzzle.]
EMPYR'EAL, adjective [Latin empyroeus; from Gr. fire.]
1. Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere.
2. Pure; vital; dephlogisticated; an epithet given to the air, or rather gas, now called oxygen.
EMPYRE'AN, adjective Empyreal.
EMPYRE'AN, noun [See Empyreal.] The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire has been supposed to subsist.
The empyrean rung
With halleluiahs.
EMPYREU'MA, noun [Gr. fire.] In chimistry, a disagreeable smell produced from burnt oils, in distillations of animal and vegetable substances.
EMPYREUMAT'IC
EMPYREUMAT'ICAL, adjective Having the taste or smell of burnt oil, or of burning animal and vegetable substances.
EMPYREUMAT'ICAL, a. Having the taste or smell of burnt oil, or of burning animal and vegetable substances.
EMPYR'ICAL, adjective Containing the combustible principle of coal.
EMPYRO'SIS, noun [Gr. to burn.] a general fire; a conflagration. [Little used.]
EMRODS. [See Emerods.]
E'MU, noun A large fowl of S. America, with wings unfit for flight.
This name properly belongs to the Cassowary, but has been erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the Rhea or S. American ostrich.
EM'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin oemulor; Gr. strife, contest.]
1. To strive to equal or excel, in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or excel; to vie with; to rival. Learn early to emulate the good and the great. emulate the virtues and shun the vices of distinguished men.
2. To be equal to.
Thy eye would emulate the diamond.
3. To imitate; to resemble. [Unusual.]
Convulsion emulating the motion of laughter.
EM'ULATE, adjective Ambitious. [Little used.]
EM'ULATED, participle passive Rivaled; imitated.
EM'ULATING, participle present tense Rivaling; attempting to equal or excel; imitating; resembling.
EMULA'TION, noun The act of attempting to equal or excel in qualities or actions; rivalry; desire of superiority, attended with effort to attain to it; generally in a good sense, or an attempt to equal or excel others in that which is praise-worthy, without the desire of depressing others. Romans 11:14. In a bad sense, a striving to equal or do more than others to obtain carnal favors or honors. Val.5.
1. An ardor kindled by the praise-worthy examples of others, inciting to imitate them, or to equal or excel them.
A noble emulation heats your breast.
2. Contest; contention; strife; competition; rivalry accompanied with a desire of depressing another.
Such factious emulations shall arise.
EM'ULATIVE, adjective Inclined to emulation; rivaling; disposed to competition.
EM'ULATOR, , noun One who emulates; a rival; a competitor.
EM'ULATRESS, noun A female who emulates another.
EMU'LE, verb transitive To emulate. [Not used.]
EMULG'ENT, adjective [Latin emulgeo; e and mulgeo, to milk out.]
Milking or draining out. In anatomy, the emulgent or renal arteries are those which supply the kidneys with blood, being sometimes single, sometimes double. The emulgent veins return the blood, after the urine is secreted. This the ancients considered as a milking or straining of the serum whence the name.
EMULG'ENT, noun An emulgent vessel.
EM'ULOUS, adjective [Latin oemulus.] Desirous or eager to imitate, equal or excel another; desirous of like excellence with another; with of; as emulous of another's example or virtues.
1. Rivaling; engaged in competition; as emulous Carthage.
2. Factious; contentious.
EM'ULOUSLY, adverb With desire of equaling or excelling another.
EMUL'SION, noun [Latin emulsus, emulgeo, to milk out.]
A soft liquid remedy of a color and consistence resembling milk; any milk-like mixture prepared by uniting oil and water, by means of another substance, saccharine or mucilaginous.
EMUL'SIVE, adjective Softening; milk-like.
1. Producing or yielding a milk-like substance; as emulsive acids.
EMUNC'TORY, noun [Latin emunctorium, from emunctus, emungo, to wipe, to cleanse.] In anatomy, any part of the body which serves to carry off excrementitious matter; a secretory gland; an excretory duct.
The kidneys and skin are called the common emunctories.
EMUSCA'TION, noun [Latin emuscor.] A freeing from moss. [Not much used.]