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Alderman. [Obs.]

That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

A mania or frantic zeal for freedom. [R.] Carlyle.

Mad for freedom. [R.]

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

To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

wing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

Issuing forth; effluent.

By an emanation.

Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.

of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

e, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

One who emancipates.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.

A freed convict. [Australia]

To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.

See Immanuel. Matt. i. 23.

A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.