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The office of an emissary.

ng or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

Same as Emissary, a., 2.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

To famish; to starve.

To infold, as in a mist.

Mediation. [Obs.]

One who practices entomotomy.

See Ependyma.

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ. -- Ep`i*did"y*mal, a.

An epigrammatist. Jer. Taylor.

One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer. Milton.

One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym.

A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.

Pertaining to euphemism; containing a euphemism; softened in expression. -- Eu`phe*mis"tic*al*ly, adv.

A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.