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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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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.En’a-tā’tion, n. p. 444A swimming out; escape by swimming. [Obs.] Bailey.E-nāte', a. p. 444Growing out. [Obs.]E-näun'ter, adv. p. 444Lest that. [Obs.] Spenser.E-năv'i-gāte, v. t. p. 444To sail out, or over. [Obs.] Cockeram.En-bibe’, v. t. p. 444To imbibe. [Obs.] Skelton.En-cāġe', v. t. p. 444To shut up or confine in a cage; to coop. Shak.En-cămp', v. i. p. 444To form and occupy a camp; to prepare or settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, spread tents, and remain for a night or for a longer time, as an army or company.En-cămp', v. t. p. 444To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.En-cămp'ment, n. p. 444The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest. 2. The place where an army or company is encamped; a camp; a regular order of tents or…En-cănk'er, v. t. p. 444To corrode; to canker. [Obs.] Shelton.En-eān’this, n. p. 444(Med.) A small tumor or excrescence growing from the inner angle of the eye. Brande.En-cär'di-on, n. p. 444(Bot.) The heart or pith of a plant.