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A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.

The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.

A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]

ng has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; 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 soc…

Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.

as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.

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.

stency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidæ.

A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh- water tortoises and terrapins.

To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D. Brewster.

to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo. I will encounter with Andronicus. Shak. Perception and judgment, employed in the investigation of all truth, have in the first place to encounter with particulars. Tatham.

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

To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

A variety of chalcedony containing water.

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