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.

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.

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

One who holds lands by emphyteusis.

To pierce; to impierce.

Fixed; settled; fastened.

Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.

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

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

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

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

An empiric.

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

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

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

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

A medicine causing constipation.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.

To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

See 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.

See Implore.

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

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

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

One employed by another.

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

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

Plumed.

To plunge; to implunge.

Poison.

Poisoner.

The act of poisoning.

Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise.

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

See Impoverish.

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.

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

The consort of an emperor.

Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

See Imprint.

To undertake.

Full of daring; adventurous.

See Imprison.

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

To empty.

of Empty.

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

The act of buying.

Capable of being purchased.

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

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.

One who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work.