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To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb. To merge all natural ... sentiment in inordinate vanity. Burke. Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots. De Quincey.

One who, or that which, merges.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

in which anything 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,…

sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

nforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill.

or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. The mountains huge appear emergent. Milton.

cially a fuid; to dip; to immerse. See Immerse. We took . . . lukewarm water, and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

See Lammergeir.

e ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Written also lammergeyer.]

To emerge again.

Act of re

To merge again. "Remerging in the general Soul." Tennyson.

with water; to inundate; to flood; to drown. I would thou didst, So half my Egypt were submerged. Shak.

The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.

usted that the chromatic aberration produced by the one is corrected by other, and light emerges from the compound lens undecomposed. -- Achromatic prism. See Prism. -- Achromatic telescope, or microscope, one in which the chromatic aberration is corrected, usually by means of a compound or achromatic object glass, a…

transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

what is removed; to rectify. Mar not the thing that can not be amended. Shak. An instant emergency, granting no possibility for revision, or opening for amended thought. De Quincey. We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman. Sir W. Scott. To amend a bill, to make some change in the det…

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.