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

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

lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.

The act of making empty.

See Impugn.

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

A phantom or specter.

To puzzle.

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

An eruption of pustules.

Empyrean.

Empyreal.

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

Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor.

To render empyreumatic.

Containing the combustible principle of coal.

A general fire; a conflagration.

See Emerods.

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.

Capable of being emulated.

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.

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

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

In an emulative manner; with emulation.

One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.

A female emulator.

To emulate.

To milk out; to drain.

A medicine that excites the flow of bile.

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.

In an emulous manner.

The quality of being emulous.

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

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.

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.

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.

Softening; milklike.

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

A freeing from moss.

A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydid/.

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

Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.

In a lump; as a whole; all together.

the Sumerian god of the air, and king of the Sumerian gods.

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.

Purpose; determination.

Having power to enact or establish as a law.

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

Enactment; resolution.

One of the Enaliosauria.

An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders.

Pertaining to the Enaliosauria. One of the Enaliosauria.

A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.

To ambush.

Relating to the art of enameling; as, enamel painting.

Consisting of enamel; resembling enamel; smooth; glossy.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.

To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.

The state of being enamored.

either of a pair of optical isomers of a chemical substance whose molecules are mirror images of each other, i. e., are related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- meaningful only for structures which have internal asymmetry.

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

Serving to palliate; palliative.

An opposite passion or affection.

A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries.

To arch.

Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

An iron-black mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

Same as Armed, 3.

A detailed exposition; relation.

See Enarthrosis.

A ball and socket joint, or the kind of articulation represented by such a joint. See Articulation.

Coming into being; nascent.

A swimming out.

Growing out.

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

Lest that.

To sail away or over.

Embattled.

To imbibe.

See Embroude.

same as Encenia.

To confine in a cage; to coop up.

To register in a calendar; to calendar.

To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

To canker.

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

To carnalize; to make gross.

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.

To inclose in or as if in a case. See Incase.

covered or protected with or as if with a case; as, products encased in leatherette.

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

To turn into cash; to cash.

The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.

An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors.

The method of painting in heated wax, or in any way where heat is used to fix the colors.

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess.

Pregnant; with child.

A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors.

To offer incense to or upon; to burn incense.

any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long, often spiny pinnate leaves.

Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.

Inflammation of the brain.

Hernia of the brain.

An encephaloid cancer.

The science which treats of the brain, its structure and functions.

The contents of the cranium; the brain.

Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

The encephalon.

The act or art of dissecting the brain.

Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

To chafe; to enrage; to heat.

Heating; burning.

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

To seat in a chair.

To make run in a channel.