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The office of an emissary.

ing 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.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

Same as Emissary, a., 2.

o 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.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.

See Immanuel. Matt. i. 23.

To turn to marble; to harden. [Obs.] Thou dost emmarble the proud heart. Spenser.

A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.

An ant. Emmet hunter (Zoöl.), the wryneck.

That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia. The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly for all distances. J. Le Conte.

Same as Emmetropia.

To mew or coop up. [Obs.] Shak.

To move; to rouse; to excite. [Obs.]

regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.