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The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.

The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.

Embryonic; undeveloped. [R.]

To enlarge in the way of bulk. [R.] Latham.

To furnish with money; to imburse. [Obs.]

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. [Obs.] Shelton.

An ambush. [Obs.]

To employ. [Obs.] Skelton.

An uncle. [Obs.] Spenser.

Same as Emir.

See Emmenagogue.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.

Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]

of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor.

One who emends or critically edits.

Pertaining to emendation; corrective. "Emendatory criticism."" Johnson.

One who emends.

To beg. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. "Emerald meadows." Byron. Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. -- Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of…