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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.

Emulate

To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.

Emulation

The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.

Emulative

Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.

Emulator

One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

Emulatory

Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.

Emulgent

A medicine that excites the flow of bile.

Emulous

Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.

Emulsic

Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.

Emulsify

To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

Emulsin

The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

Emulsion

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

Emunctory

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

Emyd

A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydid/.

Emydea

A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.

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