The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.

One who emends or critically edits.

Pertaining to emendation; corrective.

One who emends.

To beg.

Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

An emerald.

To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity.

The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.

Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.

Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light.

Emery.

Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.

A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.

Standing out of, or rising above, water.

The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.

Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.

A vomiting.

Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. A medicine which causes vomiting.

Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.

A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

See Emu.

According to; conformably to.

The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.

Beaming forth; flashing.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation.

The voiding of urine.

Diuretic.

One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.

Migratory; roving.

The act of emigrating; removal 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.

Relating to emigration.

An advocate or promoter of emigration.

One who emigrates; am emigrant.

One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.

That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height.

State of being eminent; eminence.

High; lofty; towering; prominent.

In an eminent manner; in a high degree; conspicuously; as, to be eminently learned.

Exploring; spying.

The office of an emissary.

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place; the rate of emission of heat from a bounding surface per degree of temperature difference between the surface and surrounding substances (called by Fourier external conductivity).

Same as Emissary, a., 2.

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.

Sending forth; emissive.

giving off light or heat or radiation; as, the physical temperature of the emitting material.

a genus of plants consisting of one species, the yellow bells.

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.

See Immanuel.

To turn to marble; to harden.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

a type of large-holed Swiss cheese.

a hard red wheat (Triticum dicoccum) grown especially in Russia and Germany; also grown in the U. S. as stock feed.

That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, and astigmatism.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia.

Same as Emmetropia.

To mew or coop up.

To move; to rouse; to excite.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

To soften; to render effeminate.

An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.

The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable.

Among.

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

To give an emotional character to.

Affected with emotion.

unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served.

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

Susceptibility to emotion.

Emotiveness.

To move.

To impair.

Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.

To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.

A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.

See Impanel.

Completely armed; panoplied.

Same as Imparadise.

To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark.

Parley; imparlance.

A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat.

To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion.

Strongly affected.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.

To hinder. See Impeach.

To form like pearls; to decorate with, or as with, pearls; to impearl.

To form into a people or community; to inhabit; to people.

See Empress.

An empress.

To put in peril. See Imperil.

Perished; decayed.

The sovereign or supreme monarch of an empire; -- a title of dignity superior to that of king; as, the emperor of Germany or of Austria; the emperor or Czar of Russia.

The rank or office of an emperor.

Empire; sovereignty; dominion.

a natural family of heathlike shrubs including the crowberry (Empetrum nigrum).

A genus of heathlike shrubs including the crowberry (Empetrum nigrum).

A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.

To place emphasis on; same as emphasize.

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

Having stress or emphasis.

The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in an emphatic manner; emphatic denials; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning.

With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; pre/minently; as, he emphatically denied the allegations.

The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

To madden.

A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, emphysema; swelled; bloated.