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An empiric.

Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment; following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.

To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.

See Plaster. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

To accuse; to indict. See Implead.

See Emplecton.

A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

See Implore. [Obs.]

of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies. This is a day in which the thoughts . . . ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison.…

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

One employed by another.

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

Plumed. [R.]

To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] Spenser.

Poison. [Obs.] Remedy of Love.