See Chitin.

Resembling a beetle's wing case.

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Ch/topoda.

Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.

The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.

Emaciation.

Emaciated.

having become so thin that the bones noticeably protude under the skin; as, emaciated bony hands.

The act of making very lean.

To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.

The act of clearing from spots.

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

Issuing forth; emanant.

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

Issuing forth; effluent.

By an emanation.

Emanative; of the nature of an emanation.

Set at liberty.

free from traditional social restraints; -- used especially of women; as, an emancipated young woman pursuing her career.

The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; the act or process of emancipation, or the state thereby achieved; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

permitting or conducive to the reduction of restraints on behavior.

One who emancipates.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.

A freed convict.

To take away the margin of.

Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.

In an emarginate manner.

The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.

Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.

having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.

The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

One who, or that which, emasculates.

Serving or tending to emasculate.

See Embase.

To make up into a bale or pack.

To encircle or embrace.

To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.

One who embalms.

The act of embalming.

To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.

Same as Embarkation.

To put in a barge.

To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

Embarkation.

Embarrassment.

feeling uneasily or unpleasantly self-conscious due to some event or circumstance; as, she was embarrassed by her child's tantrums.

hard to deal with; as, greeted with an embarrassing silence.

A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.

To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.

An embassy. See Ambassade.

The mission of an ambassador.

Same as Ambassador.

Same as Ambassadorial.

Same as Ambassadress.

Embassy.

An embassy.

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.

To bastardize.

To bathe; to imbathe.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.

To furnish with battlements.

Having indentations like a battlement.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.

A bay.

To make brilliant with beams.

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; as, found pebbles embedded in the silt; stone containing many embedded fossils; as, peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp.

The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

One who embellishes.

The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.

Ember days.

To make better.

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

taken for one's own use in violation of a trust; -- of money; as, the banker absconded with embezzled payroll; the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars.

The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

One who embezzles.

To swell or heave like a wave of the sea.

a natural family of viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocid/. One of a family of fishes (Embiotocid/) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fish and viviparous fish. See Illust. in Appendix.

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

To whiten. See Blanch.

To adorn with glittering embellishments.

To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

An emblazoning.

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.

To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.

To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.

A writer or inventor of emblems.

To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.

The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.

To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.

To emblossom.

To cover or adorn with blossoms.

One who embodies.

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.

To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre/xisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.

To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.

One who emboldens.

Embolismic.

Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.