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powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing. -- Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

Containing nothing; not holding 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.

Containing the combustible principle of coal. Kirwan.

An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

ck mineral of metallic luster, occurring in small orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It contains sulphur, arsenic, copper, and often silver.

Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

Pertaining to, or containing, endolymph; as, the endolymphatic duct.

Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.

Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

A variety of chalcedony containing water.

Having water within; containing fluid drops; -- said of certain crystals.

y his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain. Camden.

Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. Ayliffe. -- E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.

Pertaining to the eozoön; containing eozoöns; as, eozoönal limestone.

A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.