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pse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

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

To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.] Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.

ress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require i…

an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan. Among the Greek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en- or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em- before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in en…

The compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rou…

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

orbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.

To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

nsisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the…

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.

A hernial tumor whose contents are intestine.

nspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person. Enthusiasts soon understand each other. W. Irving.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvæ feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon,

To be twisted or twined. With whose imperial laurels might entwine no cypress. De Quincey.