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The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes.

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back. Walker.

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak.

So as to throw into ecstasy.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

Rather than. I will be thrown into Etna, . . . ere I will leave her. Shak. Ere long, before, shortly. Shak. -- Ere now, formerly, heretofore. Shak. -- Ere that, and Or are. Same as Ere. Shak.

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh streng…

An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.

To overthrow or subvert. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Tending to evert or overthrow; subversive; with of. A maxim eversive . . . of all justice and morality. Geddes.

To overthrow; to subvert. [R.] Ayliffe.

To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.

nce; as, an excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. Walsh.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden.