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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ĕm'py-reu'mă, n. p. 443(Chem.) The peculiar smell and taste of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels, arising from an oil developed by the process of decomposition.Em'py-reu-māt'ie or Em'py-reu-māt'ie-al, a. p. 443Pertaining to, possessing, or resembling the taste or smell of burnt animal or vegetable substances.Em'py-reu'ma-tize, v. t. p. 443To render empyreumatic; to burn. [Rare.]Em-py'rie-al, a. p. 443Containing the combustible principle of coal. Kirwan.Em'py-rō'sis, n. p. 443A general fire; a conflagration. [Obs.]Em'rods, n. p. 443The same as EMERODS.Ē'mū, n. p. 443(Ornith.) A bird of very large size, found in Australia, the Dromaius Nova Hollandicæ, related to the cassowary and the ostrich. It is very fleet of foot, but, like the ostrich, is unable to fly.…Ĕm'ū-la-ble, a. p. 443Capable of being emulated or attained by emulous endeavors. [Rare.] “Some imitable and emulable good.” Leighton.Ĕm'ū-lāte, v. t. p. 443To strive to equal or excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or excel; to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great. Thy eye would emulate the diamond. Shak.…Ĕm'ū-late, a. p. 443Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [Obs.] “A most emulate pride.” Shak.Em'u-lā'tion, n. p. 443The act of attempting to equal or excel in qualities or actions; rivalry; desire of superiority, attended with effort to attain it; ambition to equal or excel. A noble emulation heats your breast.…Em'ū-lā'tive, a. p. 443Inclined to emulation; disposed to competition; rivaling. “Emulative zeal.” Hoole.Em'u-lā'tive-ly, adv. p. 443With emulation; ambitiously.Ĕm'ū-lā'tor, n. p. 443One who emulates; a rival; a competitor. As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both. Warburton.Ĕm'ū-la-to-ry, a. p. 443Emulating; emulous. [Rare.] “Emulatory officiousness.” Bp. Hall.Ĕm'ū-lā'tress, n. p. 443A female who emulates.Ēm'ūle, v. t. p. 443To emulate. [Obs.] “Emuled of many.” Spenser.E-mŭl'ge, v. t. p. 443To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.E-mūl'gent, a. p. 443(Anat.) Milking or draining out;—said of the renal arteries and veins, which, by the ancients, were regarded as if milking or straining the serum, and so producing the urine.E-mūl'gent, n. p. 443(Med.) (a.) An emulgent vessel. (b.) A remedy which excites the flow of bile. Hoblyn.Em'ū-lōus, a. p. 443Ambitiously 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. 2. Engaged in competition…Em'ū-lōus-ly, adv. p. 443With desire of equaling or excelling another.Ĕm'ū-lōūs-ness, n. p. 443The quality of being emulous.E-mūl'sic, a. p. 443Pertaining to, or procured from, emulsine; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn.E-múl'sine, n. p. 443(Chem.) An albuminous or caseous matter contained in almonds. Gregory.E-mūl’sion, n. p. 443(Med.) 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.E-mūl'sive, a. p. 443<br>1. Softening; milk-like.<br>2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.<br>3. Producing or yielding a milk-like substance; as, emulsive acids. Fourcroy, Trans.E-mūnc'to-ry, n. p. 443(Anat.) Any organ of the body which serves to carry off excrementitious matter; an excretory duct.Em'us-cā'tion, n. p. 443A freeing from moss. [Obs.] Evelyn.E'mys, n. p. 444(Zool.) A genus of chelonian reptiles, including the freshwater tortoises.Ĕn p. 444A prefix to many English words, chiefly borrowed from the French. It coincides with the Latin in, Gr. ἐν; and some English words are written indifferently with en or in. For the ease of…Ĕn, n. p. 444(Print.) Half an em, i. e., half the square of the type.En-ā'ble, v. t. p. 444To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Bp. Taylor. 2. To supply with sufficient power…En-ā'ble-ment, n. p. 444The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. [Obs.] Bacon.En-ăct′, v. t. p. 444To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the last act of legislation to, as a bill, giving it the validity of law. 2. To act; to perform; to…En-ăct', n. p. 444Purpose; determination. [Obs.]En-ăct'ive, a. p. 444Having power to enact or establish as a law. Bramhall.En-ăct'ment, n. p. 444The passing of a bill into a law; the act of voting, decreeing, and giving validity to a law. 2. That which is enacted; a decree; a law. 3. The acting as a part or character in a play.En-ăct'or, n. p. 444One who enacts or passes a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. 2. One who performs any thing. [Obs.] Shak.En-ăct'ūre, n. p. 444Purpose; determination. [Obs.] Shak.En-ăl'i-o-saur' or En-ăl'i-o-sau'ri-an, n. p. 444(Palæon.) A marine or swimming saurian of gigantic size, now extinct, and found only in a fossil state. The family includes the ichthyosaur and allied reptiles. Dana.E-năl'la-je, n. p. 444(Gram.) A change of words, or a substitution of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.En-ām'bush, v. t. p. 444To hide in ambush; to ambush. Chapman.En-ām'el, n. p. 444A substance of the nature of glass, but more fusible and nearly opaque, used in ornamental inlaying of jewelry, and for like purposes, with a variety of colors; also, other materials used for giving…En-ăm'el, v. t. p. 444To lay enamel upon, as on gold, silver, copper &c.; to paint in enamel. 2. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card-paper; to enamel leather or cloth.En-ăm'el, v. i. p. 444To practice the art of enameling.En-ăm'el, a. p. 444Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting. Tomlinson.En-ăm'el-ar, a. p. 444Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy. [Written also enamellar.]En-ăm'el-er or En-ăm'el-ist, n. p. 444One who enamels; one whose occupation is to lay on enamels, or inlay colors. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]En-ăm'or, v. t. p. 444To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate;—with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.] He became…En-ām'o-rā'do, n. p. 444One deeply in love; an inamorato. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.En'an-thē'sis, n. p. 444(Med.) A cutaneous eruption connected with an internal disease, as in measles and the like.E-năn/ti-o-păth'ie, a. p. 444(Med.) Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison.E-năn'-ti-ŏp'a-thy, n. p. 444An opposite passion or affection. Everest. 2. (Med.) Allopathy, or the theory of acting and curing by contraries;—a term used by the disciples and followers of Hahnemann.E-năn’tĭ-ō’sĭs, n. p. 444(Rhet.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.En-ärched', a. p. 444(Her.) Having the form of an arch; arched;—said of a chevron or other ordinary.En-ärmed’, a. p. 444(Her.) Having arms, that is, horns, hoofs, &c., of a different color from that of the body.En’ar-rā’tĭon, n. p. 444Recital; relation; account. [Obs.] Halliwell.Ĕn'ăr-thrō'sis, n. p. 444(Anat.) A ball-and-socket joint; 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 joint movable in every direction.E-nā's'cent, a. p. 444Coming into being; nascent. [Obs.] “An enascent equivocation.” Warburton.