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Emendation

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.

Emendator

EMENDA'TOR, noun A corrector of errors or faults in writings; one who corrects or improves.

Emendatory

EMEND'ATORY, adjective Contributing to emendation or correction.

Emerald

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

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.

Emergence

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.

Emergency

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.

Emergent

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.

Emerited

EMER'ITED, adjective [Latin emeritus.] Allowed to have done public service.

Emerods

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.

Emersion

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.

Emery

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.

Emetic

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.

Emetically

EMET'ICALLY, adverb In such a manner as to excite vomiting.

Emetin

EM'ETIN, noun [See Emetic.] A substance obtained from the root of ipecacuana, half a grain of which is a powerful emetic.

Emew

E'MEW, noun A name of the Cassowary.

Emication

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.

Emiction

EMIC'TION, noun [Latin mingo, mictum.] The discharging of urine; urine; what is voided by the urinary passages.

Emigrant

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.

Emigrate

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.

Emigrating

EM'IGRATING, participle present tense Removing from one country or state to another for residence.

Emigration

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.

Eminence

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.

Eminency

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.

Eminent

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.

Eminently

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.

Emir

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.

Emissary

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.

Emission

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

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.

Emmenagogue

EMMEN'AGOGUE, noun [Gr. menstruous, in month, and to lead.]

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

Emmet

EM'MET, noun An ant or pismire.

Emmew

EMMEW', verb transitive [See Mew.] To mew; to coop up; to confine in a coop or cage.

Emmove

EMMOVE, verb transitive To move; to rouse; to excite. [Not used.]

Emollescence

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.

Emolliate

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.]

Emolliated

EMOL'LIATED, participle passive Softened; rendered effeminate.

Emolliating

EMOL'LIATING, pr. Softening; rendering effeminate.

Emollient

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.

Emollition

EMOLLI'TION, noun The act of softening or relaxing.

Emolument

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.

Emolumental

EMOLUMENT'AL, adjective Producing profit; useful; profitable; advantageous.

Emongst, for among, in Spenser, is a mistake.

Emotion

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.

Empair

EMPA'IR, verb transitive To impair. [See Impair.]

Empale

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.

Empaled

EMPA'LED, participle passive Fenced or fortified with stakes; inclosed; shut in; fixed on a state.

Empalement

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.

Empaling

EMPA'LING, participle present tense Fortifying with pales or stakes; inclosing; putting to death on a stake.

Empannel

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.

Empark

EMP'ARK, verb transitive [in and park.] To inclose as with a fence.

Emparlance

EMPAR'LANCE, noun [See Imparlance.]

Empasm

EMPASM, noun empazm'. [Gr. to sprinkle.] A powder used to prevent the bad scent of the body.

Empassion

EMPAS'SION, verb transitive To move with passion; to affect strongly. [See Impassion.]

Empeach

EMPEACH, [See Impeach.]

Empeople

EMPE'OPLE, verb transitive empee'pl. To form into a people or community. [Little used.]

Emperess

EM'PERESS. [See Empress.]

Emperished

EMPER'ISHED, adjective [See Perish.] Decayed. [Not in use.]

Emperor

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.

Empery

EM'PERY, noun Empire.

Emphasis

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

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.

Emphatic

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.

Emphatical

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.

Emphatically

EMPHAT'ICALLY, adverb With emphasis; strongly; forcibly; in a striking manner.

1. According to appearance. [Not used.]

Emphysem

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.

Emphysema

EMPHYSE'MA

EMPHYSEM'ATOUS, adjective Pertaining to emphysema; swelled, bloated, but yielding easily to pressure.

Emphysematous

EMPHYSEM'ATOUS, a. Pertaining to emphysema; swelled, bloated, but yielding easily to pressure.

Emphyteutic

EMPHYTEU'TIC, c. [Gr. a planting, to plant.]

Taken on hire; that for which rent is to be paid; as emphyteutic lands.

Empierce

EMPIERCE, verb transitive empers' [em, in, and pierce.] To pierce into; to penetrate. [Not used.]

Empight

EMPIGHT, adjective [from pight, to fix.] Fixed.

Empire

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.

Empiric

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

Empirical

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.

Empirically

EMPIR'ICALLY, adverb By experiment; according to experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.

Empiricism

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

Emplaster

EMPL'ASTER, noun [Gr. a plaster.] [See Plaster, which is not used.]

EMPL'ASTER, verb transitive To cover with a plaster.

Emplastic

EMPL'ASTIC, adjective [Gr.] See Plaster, Plastic.] Viscous; glutinous; adhesive; fit to be applied as a plaster; as emplastic applications.

Emplead

EMPLE'AD, verb transitive [em and plead.] To charge with a crime; to accuse. but it is now written implead, which see.

Employ

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.

Employable

EMPLOY'ABLE, adjective That may be employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.

Employed

EMPLOY'ED, participle passive Occupied; fixed or engaged; applied in business; used in agency.

Employer

EMPLOY'ER, noun One who employs; one who uses; one who engages or keeps in service.

Employing

EMPLOY'ING, participle present tense Occupying; using; keeping busy.

Employment

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

EMPLUNGE, [See Plunge.]

Empoison

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.

Empoisoned

EMPOIS'ONED, participle passive Poisoned; tainted with venom; embittered.

Empoisoner

EMPOIS'ONER, noun One who poisons; one who administers a deleterious drug; he or that which embitters.

Empoisoning

EMPOIS'ONING, participle present tense Poisoning; embittering.

Empoisonment

EMPOIS'ONMENT, noun The act of administering poison, or causing it to be taken; the act of destroying life by a deleterious drug.

Emporium

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.

Empoverish

EMPOV'ERISH, [See Impoverish.]

Empower

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.]

Empowered

EMPOW'ERED, participle passive Authorized; having legal or moral right.

Empowering

EMPOW'ERING, participle present tense Authorizing; giving power.

Empress

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.

Emprise

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.]

Emptier

EMP'TIER, noun One that empties or exhausts.

Emptiness

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.

Emption

EMP'TION, noun [Latin emptio, from emo, to buy.] The act of buying; a purchasing. [Not much used.]

Empty

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

Emptying

EMP'TYING, participle present tense Pouring out the contents; making void.

Emptyings

EMP'TYINGS, noun The lees of beer, cider, etc.

Empurple

EMPUR'PLE, verb transitive [from purple.] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to discolor with purple

The deep empurpled ran.

Empurpled

EMPUR'PLED, participle passive Stained with a purple color.

Empurpling

EMPUR'PLING, participle present tense Tinging or dyeing of a purple color.

Empuse

EMPU'SE, noun A phantom or specter. [Not used.]

Empuzzle

EMPUZ'ZLE. [See Puzzle.]

Empyreal

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.

Empyrean

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.

Empyreuma

EMPYREU'MA, noun [Gr. fire.] In chimistry, a disagreeable smell produced from burnt oils, in distillations of animal and vegetable substances.

Empyreumatic

EMPYREUMAT'IC

EMPYREUMAT'ICAL, adjective Having the taste or smell of burnt oil, or of burning animal and vegetable substances.

Empyreumatical

EMPYREUMAT'ICAL, a. Having the taste or smell of burnt oil, or of burning animal and vegetable substances.

Empyrical

EMPYR'ICAL, adjective Containing the combustible principle of coal.

Empyrosis

EMPYRO'SIS, noun [Gr. to burn.] a general fire; a conflagration. [Little used.]

Emrods

EMRODS. [See Emerods.]

Emu

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.

Emulate

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.]

Emulated

EM'ULATED, participle passive Rivaled; imitated.

Emulating

EM'ULATING, participle present tense Rivaling; attempting to equal or excel; imitating; resembling.

Emulation

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.

Emulative

EM'ULATIVE, adjective Inclined to emulation; rivaling; disposed to competition.

Emulator

EM'ULATOR, , noun One who emulates; a rival; a competitor.

Emulatress

EM'ULATRESS, noun A female who emulates another.

Emule

EMU'LE, verb transitive To emulate. [Not used.]

Emulgent

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.

Emulous

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.

Emulously

EM'ULOUSLY, adverb With desire of equaling or excelling another.

Emulsion

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.

Emulsive

EMUL'SIVE, adjective Softening; milk-like.

1. Producing or yielding a milk-like substance; as emulsive acids.

Emunctory

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.

Emuscation

EMUSCA'TION, noun [Latin emuscor.] A freeing from moss. [Not much used.]

En

EN, a prefix to many English words, chiefly borrowed from the French. In coincides with the Latin, in, Gr., and some English words are written indifferently with en or in. For the ease of pronunciation, it is changed to em, particularly before a labial, as in employ, empower.

EN was formerly a plural termination of nouns and of verbs, as in housen, escapen. It is retained in oxen and children. It is also still used as the termination of some verbs, as in hearken, from the Saxon infinitive.

Enable

ENABLE, verb transitive [Norm. enhabler; en and hable, able. See Able.]

1. To make able; to supply with power, physical or moral; to furnish with sufficient power or ability. By strength a man is enabled to work. Learning and industry enable men to investigate the laws of nature. Fortitude enables us to bear pain without murmuring.

2. To supply with means. Wealth enables men to be charitable, or to live in luxury.

3. To furnish with legal ability or competency; to authorize. The law enables us to dispose of our property by will.

4. To furnish with competent knowledge or skill, and in general, with adequate means.

Enabled

ENA'BLED, participle passive Supplied with sufficient power, physical, moral or legal.

Enablement

ENA'BLEMENT, noun The act of enabling; ability.

Enabling

ENA'BLING, participle present tense Giving power to; supplying with sufficient power, ability or means; authorizing.

Enact

ENACT', verb transitive [en and act.] To make, as a law; to pass, as a bill into a law; to perform the last act of a legislature to a bill, giving it validity as a law; to give legislative sanction to a bill.

Shall this bill pass to be enacted?

1. To decree; to establish as the will of the supreme power.

2. To act; to perform; to effect. [Not used.]

3. To represent inaction. [Not used.]

Enacted

ENACT'ED, participle passive Passed into a law; sanctioned as a law, by legislative authority.

Enacting

ENACT'ING, participle present tense Passing into a law; giving legislative sanction to a bill, and establishing it as a law.

1. Giving legislative forms and sanction; as the enacting clause of a bill.

Enactment

ENACT'MENT, noun The passing of a bill into a law; the act of voting, decreeing and giving validity to a law.

Enactor

ENACT'OR, noun One who enacts or passes a law; one who decrees or establishes, as a law.

1. One who performs any thing. [Not used.]

Enacture

ENAC'TURE, noun Purpose. [Not in use.]

Enallage

ENAL'LAGE, noun enal'lajy. [Gr. change.]

A figure, in grammar, by which some change is made in the common mode of speech, or when one word is substituted for another; as exercitus victor, for victoriousus; scelus, for scelestus.

Enambush

ENAM'BUSH, verb transitive [en and ambush.] To hide in ambush.

1. To ambush.

Enambushed

ENAM'BUSHED, participle passive Concealed in ambush, or with hostile intention; ambushed.

Enamel

ENAM'EL, noun

1. In mineralogy, a substance imperfectly vitrified, or matter in which the granular appearance is destroyed, and having a vitreous gloss.

In the arts, a substance of the nature of glass, differing from it by a greater degree of fusibility or opacity.

Enamels have for their basis a pure crystal glass or frit, ground with a fine oxyd of lead and tin. These baked together are the matter of enamels, and the color is varied by adding other substances, Oxyd of gold gives a red color; that of copper, a green; manganese, a violet; cobalt, a blue; and iron, a fine black.

2. That which is enameled; a smooth, glossy surface of various colors, resembling enamel

3. In anatomy, the smooth hard substance which covers the crown of a tooth.

ENAM'EL, verb transitive To lay enamel on a metal, as on gold, silver, copper, etc.

1. To paint in enamel

2. To form a glossy surface like enamel

Enamelar

ENAM'ELAR, adjective Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.

Enameled

ENAM'ELED, participle passive Overlaid with enamel; adorned with any thing resembling enamel.

Enameler

ENAM'ELER, noun One who enamels; one whose occupation is to lay enamels, or inlay colors.

Enameling

ENAM'ELING, participle present tense Laying enamel.

ENAM'ELING, noun The act or art of laying enamels.

Enamor

ENAM'OR, verb transitive [Latin amor, love.] To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; with of before the person or thing; as, to be enamored of a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

[But it is now followed by with.]

Enamorado

ENAMORA'DO, noun One deeply in love.

Enamored

ENAM'ORED, participle passive Inflamed with love; charmed; delighted.

Enamoring

ENAM'ORING, participle present tense Inflaming with love; charming; captivating.

Enarmed

EN'ARMED, adjective In heraldry, having arms, that is, horns, hoofs, etc. of a different color from that of the body.

Enarration

ENARRA'TION, noun [Latin enarro, narro, to relate.] Recital; relation; account; exposition. [Little used.]

Enarthrosis

ENARTHRO'SIS, noun [Gr. a joint.] In anatomy, that species of articulation which consists in the insertion of the round end of a bone in the cup-like cavity of another, forming a movable joint; the ball and socket.

Enate

ENA'TE, adjective [Latin enatus.] Growing out.

Enaunter

ENAUN'TER, adverb Lest that.

Encage

ENCA'GE, verb transitive [from cage.] To shut up or confine in a cage; to coop.

Encaged

ENCA'GED, participle passive Shut up or confined in a cage.

Encaging

ENCA'GING, participle present tense Cooping; confining in a cage.

Encamp

ENCAMP', verb intransitive [from camp.] To pitch tents or form huts, as an army; to halt on a march, spread tents and remain for a night or for a longer time, as an army or company.

They encamped in Etham. Exodus 13:20.

The Levites shall encamp about the tabernacle. Numbers 1:50.

1. To pitch tents for the purpose of a siege; to besiege.

ENCAMP against the city and take it. 2 Samuel 12:28.

ENCAMP', verb transitive To form into a camp; to place a marching army or company in a temporary habitation or quarters.

Encamped

ENCAMP'ED, participle passive Settled in tents or huts for lodging or temporary habitation.

Encamping

ENCAMP'ING, participle present tense Pitching tents or forming huts, for a temporary lodging or rest.

Encampment

ENCAMP'MENT, noun The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

1. The place where an army or company is encamped; a camp; a regular order of tents or huts for the accommodation of an army or troop.

Encanker

ENCANK'ER, verb transitive To corrode; to canker.

Encase

ENCA'SE, verb transitive To inclose or confine in a case or cover.

Encaustic

ENCAUS'TIC, adjective [Gr. caustic, to burn.] Pertaining to the art of enameling, and to painting in burnt wax. encaustic painting, is a method in which wax is employed to give a gloss to colors.

ENCAUS'TIC, noun Enamel or enameling.

1. The method of painting in burnt wax.

Encave

ENCA'VE, verb transitive [from cave.] To hide in a cave or recess.

Enceint

ENCE'INT, noun [Latin cingo, to gird.] In fortification, inclosure; the wall or rampart which surrounds a place, sometimes composed of bastions and curtains. It is sometimes only flanked by round or square towers, which is called a Roman wall.

ENCE'INT, adjective In law, pregnant; ; with child.

Enchafe

ENCHA'FE, verb transitive [en and chafe.] To chafe or fret; to provoke; to enrage; to irritate. [See Chafe.]

Enchafed

ENCHA'FED, participle passive Chafed; irritated; enraged.

Enchafing

ENCHA'FING, participle present tense Chafing; fretting; enraging.