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Elixir

ELIX'IR, noun

1. In medicine, a compound tincture, extracted from two or more ingredients. A tincture is drawn from one ingredient; an elixir from several. But tincture is also applied to a composition of many ingredients. An elixir is a liquid medicine made by a strong infusion, where the ingredients are almost dissolved in the menstruum, and give it a thicker consistence than that of a tincture.

2. A liquor for transmuting metals into gold.

3. Quintessence; refined spirit.

4. Any cordial; that substance which invigorates.

Elk

ELK, noun [Latin alce, alces.] A quadruped of the Cervine genus, with palmated horns, and a fleshy protuberance on the throat. The neck is short, with a short, thick, upright mane; the eyes are small; the ears long, broad and slouching; and the upper lip hangs over the under lip. It is the largest of the deer kind, being seventeen hands high and weighing twelve hundred pounds. It is found in the northern regions of Europe, Asia and America. In the latter country it is usually called Moose, from the Indian name musu.

Elk-Nut

ELK-NUT, noun A plant, the Hamiltonia, called also oil-nut.

Ell

ELL, noun [Latin ulna.] A measure of different lengths in different countries, used chiefly for measuring cloth. The ells chiefly used in Great Britain are the English and Flemish. The English ell is three feet and nine inches, or a yard and a quarter. The Flemish ell is 27 inches, or three quarters of a yard. The English is to the Flemish as five to three. In Scotland, an ell is 37 2/10 English inches.

Ellipse

ELLIPSE, noun ellips'. An ellipsis.

Ellipsis

ELLIP'SIS, noun [Gr. an omission or defect, to leave or pass by.]

1. In geometry, an oval figure generated from the section of a cone, by a plane cutting both sides of it, but not parallel to the base.

2. In grammar, defect; omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words are omitted, which the hearer or reader may supply; as, the heroic virtues I admire, for the heroic virtues which I admire.

Ellipsoid

ELLIPS'OID, noun [ellipsis and Gr. form.] In conics, a solid or figure formed by the revolution of an ellipse about its axis; an elliptic conoid; a spheroid.

Ellipsoidal

ELLIPSOID'AL, adjective Pertaining to an ellipsoid; having the form of an ellipsoid.

Elliptic

ELLIP'TIC

ELLIP'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to an ellipsis; having the form of an ellipse; oval.

The plants move in elliptical orbits, having the sun in one focus, and by a radius from the sun, they describe equal areas in equal times.

1. Defective; as an elliptical phrase.

Elliptically

ELLIPTICALLY, adverb According to the figure called an ellipsis.

1. Defectively.

Elm

ELM, noun [Latin ulmus.] A tree of the genus Ulmus. The common elm is one of the largest and most majestic trees of the forest, and is cultivated for shade and ornament. Another species, the fulva, is called slippery elm from the quality of its inner bark. One species seems to have been used to support vines.

The treaty which William Penn made with the natives in 1682 was negotiated under a large elm which grew on the spot now called Kensington, just above Philadelphia. It was prostrated by a storm in 1810, at which time its stem measured 24 feet in circumference.

Elmy

ELM'Y, adjective Abounding with elms.

Elocation

ELOCA'TION, noun [Latin eloco.] A removal from the usual place of residence.

1. Departure from the usual method; an ecstasy.

Elocution

ELOCU'TION, noun [Latin elocutio, from eloquor; e and loquor, to speak.]

1. Pronunciation; the utterance or delivery of words, particularly in public discourses and arguments. We say of elocution it is good or bad; clear, fluent or melodious.

Elocution, which anciently embraced style and the whole art of rhetoric, now signifies manner of delivery.

2. In rhetoric, elocution consists of elegance, composition and dignity; and Dryden uses the word as nearly synonymous with eloquence, the act of expressing thoughts with elegance or beauty.

3. Speech; the power of speaking.

Whose taste--gave elocution to the mute.

4. In ancient treatises on oratory, the wording of a discourse; the choice and order of words; composition; the act of framing a writing or discourse.

Elocutive

ELOCU'TIVE, adjective Having the power of eloquent speaking.

Elogist

EL'OGIST, noun An eulogist. [Not used.]

Elogium

ELO'GIUM, noun [Latin elogium See Eulogy.]

The praise bestowed on a person or thing; panegyric. [But we generally use eulogy.]

Elogy

EL'OGY

ELOIN', verb transitive

1. To separate and remove to a distance.

2. To convey to a distance, and withhold from sight.

The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloined.

Eloin

ELOIN', v.t. 1. To separate and remove to a distance.2. To convey to a distance, and withhold from sight.The sheriff may return that the goods or beasts are eloined.

Eloinate

ELOIN'ATE, verb transitive To remove.

Eloined

ELOIN'ED, participle passive Removed to a distance; carried far off.

Eloining

ELOIN'ING, participle present tense Removing to a distance from another, or to a place unknown.

Eloinment

ELOIN'MENT, noun Removal to a distance; distance.

Elong

ELONG', verb transitive [Low Latin elongo.] To put far off; to retard.

Elongate

ELON'GATE, verb transitive [Low Latin elongo, from longus. See Long.]

1. To lengthen; to extend.

2. To remove farther off.

ELON'GATE, verb intransitive To depart from; to recede; to move to a greater distance; particularly, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

Elongated

ELON'GATED, participle passive Lengthened; removed to a distance.

Elongating

ELON'GATING, participle present tense Lengthening; extending.

1. Receding to a greater distance, particularly as a planet from the sun in its orbit.

Elongation

ELONGA'TION, noun The act of stretching or lengthening; as the elongation of a fiber.

1. The state of being extended.

2. Distance; space which separates one thing from another.

3. Departure; removal; recession.

4. Extension; continuation.

May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as elongations of these two chains.

5. In astronomy, the recess of a planet from the sun, as it appears to the eye of a spectator on the earth; apparent departure of a planet from the sun in its orbit; as the elongation of Venus or Mercury.

6. In surgery, an imperfect luxation, occasioned by the stretching or lengthening of the ligaments; or the extension of a part beyond its natural dimension.

Elope

ELO'PE, verb intransitive [Eng. to leap.]

1. To run away; to depart from one's proper place or station privately or without permission; to quit, without permission or right, the station in which one is placed by law or duty. Particularly and appropriately, to run away or depart from a husband, and live with an adulterer, as a married woman; or to quit a father's house, privately or without permission, and marry or live with a gallant, as an unmarried woman.

2. To run away; to escape privately; to depart, without permission, as a son from a father's house, or an apprentice from his master's service.

Elopement

ELO'PEMENT, noun Private or unlicensed departure from the place or station to which one is assigned by duty or law; as the elopement of a wife from her husband, or of a daughter from her father's house, usually with a lover or gallant. It is sometimes applied to the departure of a son or an apprentice, in like manner.

Eloping

ELO'PING, participle present tense Running away; departing privately, or without permission, from a husband, father or master.

Elops

E'LOPS, noun A fish, inhabiting the seas of America and the West Indies, with a long body, smooth head, one dorsal fin, and a deeply furcated tail, with a horizontal lanceolated spine, above and below, at its base.

1. The sea-serpent.

Eloquence

EL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin eloquentia, from eloquor, loquor, to speak; Gr. to crack, to sound, to speak. The primary sense is probably to burst with a sound; a fissure, from the same root; whence, to open or split; whence Latin lacero, to tear; and hence perhaps Eng. a leak.]

1. Oratory; the act or the art of speaking well, or with fluency and elegance. eloquence comprehends a good elocution or utterance; correct; appropriate and rich expressions, with fluency, animation and suitable action. Hence eloquence is adapted to please, affect and persuade. Demosthenes in Greece, Cicero in Rome, lord Chatham and Burke in Great Britain, were distinguished for their eloquence in declamation, debate or argument.

2. The power of speaking with fluency and elegance.

3. Elegant language, uttered with fluency and animation.

She uttereth piercing eloquence

4. It is sometimes applied to written language.

Eloquent

EL'OQUENT, adjective Having the power of oratory; speaking with fluency, propriety, elegance and animation; as an eloquent orator; an eloquent preacher.

1. Composed with elegance and spirit; elegant and animated; adapted to please, affect and persuade; as an eloquent address; an eloquent petition or remonstrance; an eloquent history.

Eloquently

EL'OQUENTLY, adverb With eloquence; in an eloquent manner; in a manner to please, affect and persuade.

Else

ELSE, adjective or pronoun els. [Latin alius, alias. See Alien.]

Other; one or something beside. Who else is coming? What else shall I give? Do you expect any thing else? [This word, if considered to be an adjective or pronoun, never precedes its noun, but always follows it.

ELSE, adverb els. Otherwise; in the other case; if the fact were different. Thou desirest not sacrifice, else would I give it; that is, if thou didst desire sacrifice, I would give it. Ps. v.16. Repent, or else I will come to thee quickly; that is, repent, or if thou shouldst not repent, if the case or fact should be different, I will come to thee quickly. Revelation 2:5.

1. Beside; except that mentioned; as, no where else

Elsewhere

ELSEWHERE, adverb In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere

1. In some other place; in other places indefinitely. It is reported in town and elsewhere

Elucidate

ELU'CIDATE, verb intransitive [Low Latin elucido, from eluceo, luceo, to shine, or from lucidus, clear, bright. See Light.]

To make clear or manifest; to explain; to remove obscurity from, and render intelligible; to illustrate. An example will elucidate the subject. An argument may elucidate an obscure question. A fact related by one historian may elucidate an obscure passage in another's writings.

Elucidated

ELU'CIDATED, participle passive Explained; made plain, clear or intelligible.

Elucidating

ELU'CIDATING, participle present tense Explaining; making clear or intelligible.

Elucidation

ELUCIDA'TION, noun The act of explaining or throwing light on any obscure subject; explanation; exposition; illustration; as, one example may serve for an elucidation of the subject.

Elucidator

ELU'CIDATOR, noun One who explains; an expositor.

Elude

ELU'DE, verb transitive [Latin eludo; e and ludo, to play. The Latin

verb forms lusi, lusum; and this may be the Heb. to deride.

1. To escape; to evade; to avoid by artifice, stratagem, wiles, deceit, or dexterity; as, to elude an enemy; to elude the sight; to elude an officer; to elude detection; to elude vigilance; to elude the force of an argument; to elude a blow or stroke.

2. To mock by an unexpected escape.

Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain,

Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain.

3. To escape being seen; to remain unseen or undiscovered. The cause of magnetism has hitherto eluded the researches of philosophers.

Eludible

ELU'DIBLE, adjective That may be eluded or escaped.

Elusion

ELU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin elusio. See Elude.] An escape by artifice or deception; evasion.

Elusive

ELU'SIVE, adjective Practicing elusion; using arts to escape.

Elusive of the bridal day, she gives

Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives.

Elusoriness

ELU'SORINESS, noun The state of being elusory.

Elusory

ELU'SORY, adjective Tending to elude; tending to deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful.

Elute

ELU'TE, verb transitive [Latin eluo, elutum; qu. e and lavo. See Elutriate.]

To wash off; to cleanse.

Elutriate

ELU'TRIATE, verb transitive [Latin elutrio.] To purify by washing; to cleanse by separating foul matter, and decanting or straining off the liquor. In chimistry, to pulverize and mix a solid substance with water, and decant the extraneous lighter matter that may rise or be suspended in the water.

Elutriated

ELU'TRIATED, participle passive Cleansed by washing and decantation.

Elutriating

ELU'TRIATING, participle present tense Purifying by washing and decanting.

Elutriation

ELUTRIA'TION, noun The operation of pulverizing a solid substance, mixing it with water, and pouring off the liquid, while the foul or extraneous substances are floating, or after the coarser particles have subsided, and while the finer parts are suspended in the liquor.

Eluxate

ELUX'ATE, verb transitive [Latin eluxatus.] To dislocate. [See Luxate.]

Eluxation

ELUXA'TION, noun The dislocation of a bone. [See Luxation.]

Elvelocks

ELVELOCKS. [See Elf-lock.]

Elvers

ELV'ERS, noun Young eels; young congers or sea-eels.

Elves

ELVES, plural of elf.

Elvish

ELV'ISH, adjective More properly elfish, which see.

Elysian

ELYS'IAN, adjective elyzh'un. [Latin elysius.] Pertaining to elysium or the seat of delight; yielding the highest pleasures; deliciously soothing; exceedingly delightful; as elysian fields.

Elysium

ELYS'IUM, noun elyzh'um. [Latin elysium ] In ancient mythology, a place assigned to happy souls after death; a place in the lower regions, furnished with rich fields, groves, shades, streams, etc., the seat of future happiness. Hence, any delightful place.

Em

'EM, A contraction of them.

They took 'em.

Emacerate

EMAC'ERATE, verb transitive To make lean. [Not in use.]

Emaciate

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.

Emaciated

EMA'CIATED, participle passive Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.

Emaciating

EMA'CIATING, participle present tense Wasting the flesh gradually; making lean.

Emaciation

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.

Emaculate

EMAC'ULATE, verb transitive [infra.] To take spots from. [Little used.]

Emaculation

EMACULA'TION, noun [Latin emaculo, from e and macula, a spot.]

The act or operation of freeing from spots. [Little used.]

Emanant

EM'ANANT, adjective [Latin emanans. See Emanate.] Issuing or flowing from.

Emanate

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.

Emanating

EM'ANATING, participle present tense Issuing or flowing from a fountain.

Emanation

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.

Emanative

EM'ANATIVE, adjective Issuing from another.

Emanciipate

EMAN'CIIPATE, adjective Set at liberty.

Emancipate

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.

Emancipated

EMAN'CIPATED, participle passive Set free from bondage, slavery, servitude, subjection, or dependence; liberated.

Emancipating

EMAN'CIPATING, participle present tense Setting free from bondage, servitude or dependence; liberating.

Emancipation

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.

Emancipator

EMAN'CIPATOR, noun One who emancipates or liberates from bondage or restraint.

Emane

EMA'NE, verb intransitive [Latin emano.] To issue or flow from.

But this is not an elegant word. [See Emanate.]

Emarginate

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.

Emarginated

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.

Emarginately

EM'ARGINATELY, adverb In the form of notches.

Emasculate

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.

Emasculated

EM'ASCULATED, participle passive Castrated; weakened.

Emasculating

EM'ASCULATING, participle present tense Castrating; felding; depriving of vigor.

Emasculation

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.

Embale

EMBA'LE, verb transitive

1. To make up into a bundle, bale or package; to pack.

2. To bind; to inclose.

Embalm

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.

Embalmed

EMB'ALMED, participle passive Filled with aromatic plants for preservation; preserved from loss or destruction.

Embalmer

EMB'ALMER, noun One who embalms bodies for preservation.

Embalming

EMB'ALMING, participle present tense Filling a dead body with spices for preservation; preserving with care from loss, decay or destruction.

Embar

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.

Embarcation

EMBARCA'TION, noun Embarkation, which see.

Embargo

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.

Embargoed

EMB'ARGOED, participle passive Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.

Embargoing

EMB'ARGOING, participle present tense Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.

Embark

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.

Embarkation

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.]

Embarked

EMB'ARKED, participle passive Put on shipboard; engaged in any affair.

Embarking

EMB'ARKING, participle present tense Putting on board of a ship or boat; going on shipboard.

Embarrass

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.

Embarrassed

EMBAR'RASSED, participle passive Perplexed; rendered intricate; confused; confounded.

Embarrassing

EMBAR'RASSING, participle present tense Perplexing; entangling; confusing; confounding; abashing.

Embarrassment

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.

Embase

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.]

Embasement

EMBA'SEMENT, noun Act of depraving; depravation; deterioration.

Embassade

EM'BASSADE, noun An embassy.

Embassador

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.

Embassadress

EMBAS'SADRESS, noun The consort of an embassador.

1. A woman sent on a public message.

Embassage

EM'BASSAGE, an embassy, is not used.

Embassy

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.]

Embattle

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.

Embattled

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.

Embattling

EMBAT'TLING, participle present tense Ranging in battle array.

Embay

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.]

Embayed

EMBA'YED, participle passive Inclosed in a bay, or between points of land, as a ship.

Embed

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.

Embedded

EMBED'DED, participle passive Laid as in a bed; deposited or inclosed in surrounding matter; as ore embedded in sand.

Embedding

EMBED'DING, participle present tense Laying, depositing or forming, as in a bed.

Embellish

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.

Embellished

EMBEL'LISHED, participle passive Adorned; decorated; beautified.

Embellishing

EMBEL'LISHING, participle present tense Adorning; decorating; adding grace, ornament or elegance to a person or thing.

Embellishment

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

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.

Ember-Goose

EM'BER-GOOSE, noun A fowl of the genus Colymbus and order of ansers. It is larger than the common goose; the head is dusky; the back, coverts of the wings and tail, clouded with lighter and darker shades of the same; the primaries and tail are black; the breast and belly silvery. It inhabits the northern regions, about Iceland and the Orkneys.

Ember-Week

EMBER-WEEK, [See Ember, supra.]

Embering

EM'BERING, noun The ember-days, supra.

Embers

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.

Embezzle

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.

Embezzled

EMBEZ'ZLED, participle passive Appropriated wrongfully to one's own use.

Embezzlement

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.

Embezzler

EMBEZ'ZLER, noun One who embezzles.

Embezzling

EMBEZ'ZLING, participle present tense Fraudulently applying to one's own use what is entrusted to one's care and employment.

Emblaze

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.

Emblazed

EMBLA'ZED, participle passive Adorned with shining ornaments, or with figures armorial.

Emblazing

EMBLA'ZING, participle present tense Embellishing with glittering ornaments, or with figures armorial.

Emblazon

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.

Emblazoned

EMBLA'ZONED, participle passive Adorned with figures or ensigns armorial; set out pompously.

Emblazoner

EMBLA'ZONER, noun A blazoner; one that emblazons; a herald.

1. One that publishes and displays with pomp.

Emblazoning

EMBLA'ZONING, participle present tense Adorning with ensigns or figures armorial; displaying with pomp.

Emblazonment

EMBLA'ZONMENT, noun An emblazoning.

Emblazonry

EMBLA'ZONRY, noun Pictures on shields; display of figures.

Emblem

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.

Emblematic

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.

Emblematical

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.

Emblematically

EMBLEMAT'ICALLY, adverb By way or means of emblems; in the manner of emblems; by way of allusive representation.

Emblematist

EMBLEM'ATIST, noun A writer or inventor of emblems.

Emblement

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.

Emblemize

EM'BLEMIZE, verb transitive To represent by an emblem.

Emblemized

EM'BLEMIZED, participle passive Represented by an emblem.

Emblemizing

EM'BLEMIZING, participle present tense Representing by an emblem.

Embloom

EMBLOOM', verb transitive To cover or enrich with bloom.

Embodied

EMBOD'IED, participle passive [See Embody.] Collected or formed into a body.

Embody

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.

Embodying

EMBOD'YING, participle present tense Collecting or forming into a body.

Emboguing

EMBO'GUING, noun The mouth of a river or place where its waters are discharged into the sea. [An ill formed word.]

Embolden

EMBOLDEN, verb transitive [en and bold.] To give boldness or courage; to encourage. l Cor.8.

Emboldened

EMBOLDENED, participle passive Encouraged.

Emboldening

EMBOLDENING, participle present tense Giving courage or boldness.

Embolism

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.

Embolismal

EMBOLIS'MAL, adjective Pertaining to intercalation; intercalated; inserted.

The embolismal months are either natural or civil.

Embolismic

EMBOLIS'MIC, adjective Intercalated; inserted.

Twelve lunations form a common year; and thirteen, the embolismic year.

Embolus

EM'BOLUS, noun [Gr. to thrust in.] Something inserted or acting in another; that which thrusts or drives; a piston.

Emborder

EMBOR'DER, verb transitive To adorn with a border.

Emboss

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.]

Embossed

EMBOSS'ED, participle passive Formed with bosses or raised figures.

Embossing

EMBOSS'ING, participle present tense Forming with figures in relievo.

Embossment

EMBOSS'MENT, noun A prominence, like a boss; a jut.

1. Relief; figures in relievo; raised work.

Embottle

EMBOT'TLE, verb transitive [en, in, and bottle.] To put in a bottle; to bottle; to include or confine in a bottle.

Embottled

EMBOT'TLED, participle passive Put in or included in bottles.

Embow

EMBOW, verb transitive To form like a bow; to arch; to vault.

Embowel

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.

Emboweled

EMBOW'ELED, participle passive Deprived of intestines; eviscerated; buried.

Emboweler

EMBOW'ELER, noun One that takes out the bowels.

Emboweling

EMBOW'ELING, participle present tense Depriving of entrails; eviscerating; burying.

Embower

EMBOW'ER, verb intransitive [from bower.] To lodge or rest in a bower.

Embrace

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.

Embraced

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.

Embracement

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.]

Embracer

EMBRA'CER, noun The person who embraces.

1. One who attempts to influence a jury corruptly.

Embracery

EMBRA'CERY, noun In law, an attempt to influence a jury corruptly to one side, by promises, persuasions, entreaties, money, entertainments, or the like.

Embracing

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.

Embraid

EMBRA'ID, verb transitive To upbraid.

Embrasure

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.

Embrave

EMBRA'VE, verb transitive [See Brave.] To embellish; to make showy.

1. To inspire with bravery; to make bold.

Embrocate

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.

Embrocated

EM'BROCATED, participle passive Moistened and rubbed with a wet cloth or spunge.

Embrocating

EM'BROCATING, participle present tense Moistening and rubbing a diseased part with a wet cloth or spunge.

Embrocation

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.

Embroider

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.

Embroidered

EMBROID'ERED, participle passive Adorned with figures of needle-work.

Embroiderer

EMBROID'ERER, noun One who embroiders.

Embroidering

EMBROID'ERING, participle present tense Ornamenting with figured needle-work.

Embroidery

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

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.

Embroiled

EMBROIL'ED, participle passive Perplexed; entangled; intermixed and confused; involved in trouble.

Embroiling

EMBROIL'ING, participle present tense Perplexing; entangling; involving in trouble.

Embroilment

EMBROIL'MENT, noun Confusion; disturbance.

Embrothel

EMBROTH'EL, verb transitive [See Brothel.] To inclose in a brothel.

Embryo

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.

Embryon

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.

Embryotomy

EMBRYOT'OMY, noun [embryo and Gr. a cutting, to cut.]

A cutting or forcible separation of the fetus in utero.

Embusy

EMBUSY, verb transitive To employ. [Not used.]

Emend

EMEND', verb transitive To amend. [Not used.]

Emendable

EMEND'ABLE, adjective [Latin emendabilis, from emendo, to correct; e and menda, a spot or blemish.] Capable of being amended or corrected. [See Amendable.]