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; 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, classes of society. Burke.

The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.

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

The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

t care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal. Philip was greeted with a tumultuous enthusiasm. Prescott.

op goods or a letter; the fog envelops a ship. Nocturnal shades this world envelop. J. Philips.

Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta.

ce of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition (Math.), equations formed for deducing the true values of certain quantities from others on which they depend, when different sets of the latter, as given by observation, would yield different val…

circled. Milton. - Equinoctial points (Astron.), the two points where the celestial and ecliptic intersect each other; the one being in the first point of Aries, the other in the first point of Libra. -- Equinoctial time (Astron.) reckoned in any year from the instant when the mean sun is at the mean vernal equinoctia…

To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from. "Evading from perils." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

ill not let thee go, except thou bless me. Gen. xxxii. 26. But yesterday you never opened lip, Except, indeed, to drink. Tennyson.

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter (Philol.), a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder (AS. alr) is an excrescent letter.

. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.

is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively. Mr. Phillips did express with much indignation against me, one evening. Pope.

To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. Natural graces that extinguish art. Shak .

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

To frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.