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ELECAMPANE n.
wers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.
ELECT v.
To pick out; to select; to choose. The deputy elected by the Lord. Shak.
ELECTROCUTE v.
To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n.
ELENCHIZE v.
To dispute. [R.] B. Jonson.
ELIMINATE v.
To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.
ELONG v.
To put away; to separate; to keep off. [Obs.] Wyatt.
EMBALM v.
spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.
EMBARGE v.
To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.
EMBARK v. 2 definitions
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
EMBARKATION n.
The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
EMERGENT a.
anger. Burke. Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. -- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n…
EMISSION n. 2 definitions
The act of sending 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.
EMMANTLE v.
To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection. [Obs.] Holland.
EMPALE v.
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
EMPALEMENT n.
A putting to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
EMPAWN v.
To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.
EMPERIL v.
To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser.
EMPLACE v.
To put into place or position; to fix on an emplacement.
EMPLACEMENT n.
A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
ENCHANT v.
And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Shak. He is enchanted, cannot speak. Tennyson.
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