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Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

A freeing from moss. [Obs.]

Being or occurring before the creation of the world. Young.

An outwork of a strong, high wall, with turrets, in front gateway (as of an old castle), for defending the entrance.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

ts, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe. Drayton.

To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

The act of soothing; that which soothes. Feltham.

To linger; to stay; to tarry. [Obs.] Yet durst not demur nor abide upon the camp. Nicols.

n; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave. Sober, steadfast, and demure. Milton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

Demureness; also, one who is demure. Sir T. Browne.

That may be demurred to. Stormonth.