EMENDATORY
EMEND'ATORY, adjective Contributing to emendation or correction.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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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 cryst...
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 ...
EMERGENCE
EMERG'ENCEEMERG'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 quitti...
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...
EMERGENT
EMERG'ENT, adjective Rising out of a fluid or any thing that covers or surrounds.The mountains huge appear emergent1. Issuing or proceeding from.2. Rising out of a depressed sta...
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, wit...
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 reappea...
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; i...
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 o...
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 f...
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 t...
EMINENCE
EM'INENCEEM'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...
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...
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 em...
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 emi...
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 gos...
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 odor...