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Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

un away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

g forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.

ncerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.

To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

erformance 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.

ending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies. Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.

lding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

In passing; in the course of any procedure; -- said specif. (Chess),

make firm and strong. [Obs.] "Who hath enabled me." 1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor.

t superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

Bent into a curve; -- said of a bend or other ordinary.

Having a head; -- said of most Mollusca; -- opposed to acephalous.

Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.