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19,349 words match “EM”

EMANCIPIST n.
A freed convict. [Australia]
EMARGINATE v.
To take away the margin of.
EMARGINATE; EMARGINATED a. 3 definitions
Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
EMARGINATELY adv.
In an emarginate manner.
EMARGINATION n.
The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
EMASCULATE v. 3 definitions
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
EMASCULATION n. 2 definitions
The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
EMASCULATOR n.
One who, or that which, emasculates.
EMASCULATORY a.
Serving or tending to emasculate.
EMBACE v.
See Embase. [Obs.]
EMBALE v. 2 definitions
To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.
EMBALL v.
To encircle or embrace. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
EMBALM v. 3 definitions
drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.
EMBALMER n.
One who embalms.
EMBALMMENT n.
The act of embalming. [R.] Malone.
EMBANK v.
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
EMBANKMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
EMBAR v. 2 definitions
To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.
EMBARCATION n.
Same as Embarkation.
EMBARGE v.
To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.
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