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A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

An emerald. [Obs.] Spenser.

in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest…

; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill.

Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. The mountains huge appear emergent. Milton.

Emery. [Obs.] Drayton.

Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.

The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.

of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. -- Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread…

A vomiting.

Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.

Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.

crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

See Emu.

A seditious tumult; an outbreak.