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Emollient

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

Emollition

The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

Emolument

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

Emotion

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.

Emotional

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

Emotionalism

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

emotionless

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.

Emotive

Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.

Empaistic

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

Empale

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

Empalement

A fencing, inclosing, or fortifying with stakes.

Empark

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

Empasm

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

Empassion

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

Empawn

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.

Empearl

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

Empeople

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

Emperil

To put in peril. See Imperil.

Emperor

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.

Empery

Empire; sovereignty; dominion.

Empetraceae

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

Empetrum

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

emphasis

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.

emphasise

To place emphasis on; same as emphasize.

Emphasize

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

emphasizing

The act of giving special importance or significance to something.

emphatical emphatic

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.

emphatically

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

Emphractic

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

Emphysema

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

Emphysematous

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

Emphyteusis

A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent.

Emphyteutic

Of or pertaining to an emphyteusis; as, emphyteutic lands.

Empire

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

Empiric

One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

Empirical Empiric

Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.

Empirically

By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.

Empiricism

The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

Empiristic

Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.

Emplace

To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

Emplacement

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

Emplaster

To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.

Emplastration

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.

Emplead

To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

Emplecton

A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.

Employ

That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.

Employable

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use.

Employe

One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

Employer

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

Employment

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

Emporium

A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.

Empower

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

empowered

invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter.

Empressement

Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

Emprosthotonos

A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles.

Emptiness

The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

Empty

To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

empty-bellied

needing nourishment; hungry; as, empty-bellied children.

empty-handed

having acquired or gained nothing; as, the returned from the negotiations empty-handed.

Empurple

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

Empyema

A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.

Empyreuma

The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

Empyrical

Containing the combustible principle of coal.

Emu

A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Nov/-Hollandi/ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.

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