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See Impugn.

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.

A phantom or specter. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To puzzle. [Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.

An eruption of pustules.

stance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven. Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere. Pope. Empyreal air, oxygen gas.

The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist. The empyrean rung With hallelujahs. Milton.

The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. Empyreumatic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.

To render empyreumatic. [R.]

Containing the combustible principle of coal. Kirwan.

A general fire; a conflagration. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

See Emerods. [Obs.]

Dromaius Novæ- Hollandiæ and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [Written also emeu and emew.]

lian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

Capable of being emulated. [R.] Some imitable and emulable good. Abp. Leighton.

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [Obs.] "A most emulate pride." Shak.

n qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.

Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort. "Emulative zeal." Hoole.