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To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

To cause or produce electrotonus.

or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves. "Elfish light." Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.

To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [Obs.] Spenser.

A medicine which causes vomiting.

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speak…

y, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.

An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. Dunglison.

Occasion, cause, or reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

Any monocotyledonous plant; -- so named because many monocotyledons have an endorhizal embryo.

To put in force; to cause to take effect; to give effect to; to execute with vigor; as, to enforce the laws.

or service; to bring in as associate or aid; to enlist; as, to engage friends to aid in a cause; to engage men for service.