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Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.

Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.

The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.

of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. -- Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread…

A vomiting.

Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth. -- n.

Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic. -- E*met"ic*al*ly, adv.

crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

See Emu.

A seditious tumult; an outbreak.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

Renunciation. [R.]

A foreboding; an omen. [Obs.] "Abodements must not now affright us." Shak.

Abortment; abortion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

An academy. [Poetic] Shak.

Acclimation. [R.]

Delivery in childbed