Elytrum (n.) One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.
Elytrum (n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.
Elzevir (a.) Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
'Em () An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.
Em (n.) The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.
Em- () A prefix. See En-.
Emacerate (v. t. & i.) To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
Emaceration (n.) Emaciation.
Emaciated (imp. & p. p.) of Emaciate
Emaciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emaciate
Emaciate (v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Emaciate (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
Emaciate (a.) Emaciated.
Emaciation (n.) The act of making very lean.
Emaciation (n.) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Emaculate (v. t.) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.
Emaculation (n.) The act of clearing from spots.
Aemail ombrant () An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
Emanant (a.) Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
Emanated (imp. & p. p.) of Emanate
Emanating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emanate
Emanate (v. i.) To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
Emanate (v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
Emanate (a.) Issuing forth; emanant.
Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Emanation (n.) That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.
Emanative (a.) Issuing forth; effluent.
Emanatively (adv.) By an emanation.
Emanatory (a.) Emanative; of the nature of an emanation.
Emancipated (imp. & p. p.) of Emancipate
Emancipating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emancipate
Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
Emancipate (v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
Emancipate (a.) Set at liberty.
Emancipation (n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
Emancipationist (n.) An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
Emancipator (n.) One who emancipates.
Emancipatory (a.) Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation.
Emancipist (n.) A freed convict.
Emarginate (v. t.) To take away the margin of.
Emarginate (a.) Alt. of Emarginated
Emarginated (a.) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
Emarginated (a.) Notched at the summit.
Emarginated (a.) Having the edges truncated.
Emarginately (adv.) In an emarginate manner.
Emargination (n.) The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
Emasculated (imp. & p. p.) of Emasculate
Emasculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emasculate
Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Emasculate (a.) Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
Emasculation (n.) The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
Emasculation (n.) The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
Emasculator (n.) One who, or that which, emasculates.
Emasculatory (a.) Serving or tending to emasculate.
Embace (v. t.) See Embase.
Embale (v. t.) To make up into a bale or pack.
Embale (v. t.) To bind up; to inclose.
Emball (v. t.) To encircle or embrace.
Embalmed (imp. & p. p.) of Embalm
Embalming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embalm
Embalm (v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
Embalm (v. t.) To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
Embalm (v. t.) To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
Embalmer (n.) One who embalms.
Embalmment (n.) The act of embalming.
Embanked (imp. & p. p.) of Embank
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embank
Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
Embankment (n.) A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
Embarred (imp. & p. p.) of Embar
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embar
Embar (v. t.) To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
Embarcation (n.) Same as Embarkation.
Embarge (v. t.) To put in a barge.
Embargoes (pl. ) of Embargo
Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Embargoed (imp. & p. p.) of Embargo
Embargoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embargo
Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
Embarked (imp. & p. p.) of Embark
Embarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embark
Embark (v. t.) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Embark (v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
Embark (v. i.) To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
Embark (v. i.) To engage in any affair.
Embarkation (n.) The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embarkation (n.) That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.
Embarkment (n.) Embarkation.
Embarrassed (imp. & p. p.) of Embarrass
Embarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embarrass
Embarrass (v. t.) To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.
Embarrass (v. t.) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
Embarrass (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
Embarrass (v. t.) Embarrassment.
Embarrassment (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
Embarrassment (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.