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Beaming forth; flashing. [R.] Which emicant did this and that way dart. Blackmore.

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.

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.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

ll my endeavor to obey you. Sir P. Sidney. To do one's endeavor, to do one's duty; to put forth strenuous efforts to attain an object; -- a phrase derived from the Middle English phrase "to do one's dever" (duty). "Mr. Prynne proceeded to show he had done endeavor to prepare his answer." Fuller.

To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.

r book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat.

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.

To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate. Dr. H. More.

A creeping forth. [Obs.]

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava. Huxley.

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh streng…

Breaking out or bursting forth. The sudden glance Appears far south eruptive through the cloud. Thomson.

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle.

f the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preach…

To break forth. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

evident manner; clearly; plainly. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth. Gal. iii. 1. He has evidently in the prime of youth. W. Irving.

terious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit. Matt. vii. 18.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

The act of calling out or forth. Sir. T. Browne. The evocation of that better spirit. M. Arnold.