The roar Shaksp. Shaksp. Henry IV. Emberwell'd with outrageous noise the air, To EMBRACE. v. a. [embrasser, Fr.] 1. To hold fondly in the arms; to squeeze in kindness. Embrace again, my sons! be foes no more; Nor stain your country with her children's gore. Dryden. 4. To seize ardently or eagerly; to lay hold on; to welcome; to accept willingly any thing offered. I take it, your own business calls on you, And you embrace th' occasion to depart. Shaksp. first, her mother earth she holdeth dear, And doth embrace the world, and worldly things. Davies. They who are represented by the wise virgins, embraced the profession of the christian religion, as the foolish virgins also had done. Tillotson. 3. To comprehend; to take in: as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. 4. To comprise; to enclose; to contain; to encompass; to encircle. EMBRA CEMENT. n. s. [from embrace.] Low at his feet a spacious plain is plac'd, Between the mountain and the stream embrac'd. Denbam. 5. To admit; to receive. There cherishing one another with dear, though chaste embracements, with sweet, though cold kisses, it might seem that love was come Sidney. to play him there without darts. 2. Hostile hug; grapple. These beasts, fighting with any man, stand upon their hinder feet; and so this did, being ready to give me a shrewd embracement. 3. Comprehension. Sidney. Nor can her wide embracements filled be. Davies. 4. State of being contained; enclosure. The parts in man's body easily reparable, as spirits, blood, and flesh, die in the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones, nerves, and membranes. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 5. Conjugal endearment. I would freelier rejoice in that absence, wherein he won honour, than in the embracements of his bed, where he would shew most love. Shaksp. EMBRA CER. n. s. [from embrace.] The person embracing. Yet are they the greatest embracers of plea sure of any other upon earth; and they esteem of pearls as pebbles, so they may satisfy their gust, in point of pleasure or revenge. Horvel. EMBRA SURE. n. s. [embrasure, French.] An aperture in the wall, through which the cannon is pointed; battlement. To EMBRA VE. v. a. [from brave.] To decorate; to embellish; to deck; to grace; to adorn. Not now in use. So, both agree their bodies to engrave; The great earth's womb they open to the sky, And, with sad cypress, seemly it embrave. Fairy Queen. To E'MBROCATE. υ. α. [ενεςέχω.] To rub any part diseased with medicinal liquors. Wiseman. I returned her a glass with oil of roses and vinegar, to embrocate her arm. EMBROCA TION. n. s. [from embrocate.] 1. The act of rubbing any part diseased with medicinal liquors or spirits. Shaksp. 2. The lotion with which any diseased part is washed or embrocated. Fenton, Heav'n give thee joy! If a man can be assured of any thing, without having examined, what is there that he may not embrace for truth? 6. To find; to take. Fleance, his son, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father's, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour. Locke. 7. To squeeze in a hostile manner. Let me embrace with old Vincentio; EMBRACE... [from the verb.] sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs. 2. A hostile squeeze; crush. 7 sorts. We endeavoured to ease by discutient and emollient cataplasms, and embrocations of various Wiseman's Surgery. To EMBROIDER. v. a. [broder, Fr.] To border with ornaments; to decorate with figured work; to diversify with needlework; to adorn a ground with raised figures of needlework. Such an accumulation of favours is like a kind of embroidering, or lifting of one favour upon another. Embroider'd so with flowers it had stood, That it became a garden of a wood. Wotton. Waller. Spect. Let no virgin be allowed to receive her lover, but in a suit of her own embroidering. Embroider'd purple clothes the golden beds; This slave the floor, and that the table spreads. Denham. EMBROIDERER. n. s. [from embroider.] One that adorns clothes with needlework. Blue silk and purple, the work of the embroiderer. Ecclus. EMBROIDERY. n. s. [from embroider.] 1. Figures raised upon a ground; variegated needlework. Write, 1 In em'rald tuffs, flow'rs purfled, blue and white, Shaksp. Laces and embroideries are more costly than either warm or comely. Bacon. Next these a youthful train their vows express'd, With feathers crown'd, with gay embroidery dress'd. Pope. 2. Variegation; diversity of colours. If the natural embroidery of the meadows were helpt and improved by art, a man might make a pretty landscape of his own possessions. Spect. To EMBROIL. v. a. [brouiller, French.] 1. To disturb; to confuse; to distract; to throw into commotion; to involve in troubles by dissension and discord. I had no passion, design, or preparation to embroil my kingdom in a civil war. King Ch. Rumour next, and chance, 1 And tumult and confusion, all embroil'd, When she found her venom spread so far, Rais'd on her dusky wings she cleaves the skies. 2. To perplex; to entangle. The christian antiquities at Rome, though of a fresher date, are so embroiled with fable and legend, that one receives but little satisfaction. Addison on Italy. 3. In the following passage the word seems improperly used for broil or burn. That knowledge, for which we boldly attempt to rifle God's cabinet, should, like the coal from the altar, serve only to embroil and consume the sacrilegious invaders. Decay of Piety. To EMBRO THEL. v. a. [brothel, brodel.] To enclose in a brothel. Men, which chuse Law practice for mere gain, boldly repute, Worse than embrothel'd strumpets prostitute. E'MBRYO. E'MBRYON. } n. s. [ἔμβρυων.] Donne. 1. The offspring yet unfinished in the womb. The bringing forth of living creatures may be accelerated, if the embryo ripeneth and perfecteth sooner. Bacon. An exclusion before conformation, before the birth can bear the name of the parent, or be so much as properly called an embryon. Brown. The earth was form'd, but in the womb as yet In that dark womb are the signs and rudiments of an embryo world. Burnet's Theory. When the crude embryo careful nature breeds, See how she works, and how her work proceeds. Blackmore. While the promis'd fruit Lies yet a little embryo, unperceiv'd Within its crimson folds. Thomson's Spring. 2. The state of any thing yet not fit for production, or yet unfinished. The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo. Swift. EME. n. s. [eame, Saxon.] Uncle. Ob. solete. Whilst they were young, Cassíbelan their eme, Was by the people chosen in their stead; Who on him took the royal diadem, And goodly well it long time governed. Spenser. EME NDABLE. adj. [emendo, Latin.] Capable of emendation; corrigible. EMENDATION. n. s. [emendo, Latin.] 1. Correction; alteration of any thing from worse to better. The essence and the relation of every thing in being, is fitted, beyond any emendation, for its 'action and use; and shews it to proceed from a mind of the highest understanding. Grew. 2. An alteration made in the text by verbal criticism. EMENDA TOR. n. s. [emendo, Latin.] A corrector; an improver; an alterer for the better. EMERALD. n. s. [emeraude, French; smaragdus, Lat.] A green precious stone. The emerald is evidently the same with the ancient smaragdus; and, in its most perfect state, is perhaps the most beautiful of all the gems. The rough emerald is usually of a very bright and naturally polished surface, and is ever of a pure and beautiful green, without the ad mixture of any other colour. The oriental emerald is of the hardness of the saphire and ruby, and is second only to the diamond in lustre and brightness. Hill on Fossils. Do you not see the grass how in colour they excel the emerald? Sidney The emerald is a bright grass green: it is found in fissures of rocks, along with copper Woodward on Fossils. Nor deeper verdure dies the robe of spring, When first she gives it to the southern gale, Than the green emerald shows. Thomsen. To EMERGE. v. n. [emergo, Latin.] 1. To rise out of any thing in which it is ores. covered. 1. The act of rising out of any fluid by which it is covered. We have read of a tyrant, who tried to prevent the emergence of murdered bodies. Brown. 2. The act of rising or starting into view. The emergency of colours, upon coalition of the particles of such bodies, as were neither of them of the colour of that mixture whereof they are ingredients, is very well worth our attentive observation. Boyle on Colours. The white colour of all refracted light, at its very first emergence, where it appears as white as before its incidence, is compounded of various colours. Newton's Opticks. 3. Any sudden occasion; unexpected casualty. Most of our rarities have been found out by casual emergency, and have been the works of time and chance rather than of philosophy. Glanville's Scepsis. 4. Pressing necessity; exigence. Not proper. In any case of emergency, he would employ the whole wealth of his empire, which he had thus amassed together in his subterraneous exchequer. Addison's Freeholder. EMERGENT. adj. [from emerge.] 1. Rising out of that which overwhelms or obscures it. Love made my emergent fortune once more look Above the main, which now shall hit the stars. Ben Jonson. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs unheave Into the clouds. Milton. 2. Rising into view, or notice, or honour. The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him; he is not easily emergent. Ben Jonson. 3. Proceeding or issuing from any thing. The stoics held a fatality, and a fixed unalterable course of events; but then they held also, that they fell out by a necessity emergent from and inherent in the things themselves, which God himself could not alter. South. Sudden; unexpectedly casual. All the lords declared, that, upon any emergent occasion, they would mount their servants upon their horses. Clarendon. EMEROIDS. EMERODS. n. s. [corrupted by ignorant pronunciation from bemorrhoids, aufferdes.] Painful swellings of the hemorrhoidal veins; piles. He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods. 1 Samuel. EMETICAL. adj. [iew.] Having EME TICK. the quality of pro EMERSION. 7, s. [from emerge.] The time when a star, having been obscured by its too near approach to the san, appears again. The time was in the heliacal emersion, when it becomes at greatest distance from the sun. Brown. EMERY. n. s. [smyris, Lat, esmeril, Fr.] voking vomits. Various are the temperaments and operations of herbs; some purgative, some emetick, and some sudorifick. Hale, EME TICALLY. adv. [from emetical.] In such a manner as to provoke to vomit. It has been complained of, that preparations of silver have produced violent vomits; whereas we have not observed duly refined silver to work emetically, even in women and girls. Boyle. EMICA TION. n. s. [emicatio, Latin.] Sparkling; flying off in small particles, as sprightly liquors. Emery is an iron ore, considerably rich. It is found in the island of Guernsey, in Tuscany, and many parts of Germany. It has a near relation gems on their wheels by sprinkling the wetted the magnet. The lapidaries cut the ordinary powder over them; but it will not cut diamonds. It is useful in cleaning and polishing #teel. Hill. Iron, in aqua fortis, will fall into ebullition with noise and emication, as also a crass and fu mid exhalation. Brown. EMICTION. n. s. [from emictum, Latin.] Urine; what is voided by the urinary passages. Gravel and stone grind away the flesh, and effuse the blood apparent in a sanguine emiction. Harvey on Consumptions. To E'MIGRATE. v. a. (emigro, Latin.] To remove from one place to another. EMIGRATION. n. s. [from emigrate.] Change of habitation; removal from one place to another. We find the originals of many kingdoms either by victories, or by emigrations, or intestine commotions. Hale. 6. ness. You've too a woman's heart, which ever yet Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. Shaksp. Alterations are attributed to the powerfulle st under princes, where the eminency of one obscureth the rest. Wotton. He deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what I was, In that bright eminence; and with his good Upbraided none. Milton's Par. Lost. Where men cannot arrive to any eminency of estate, yet religion makes a compensation, by Tillotson. teaching content. These two were men of eminency, of learning as well as piety. Supreme degree. Stilling fleet. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st, And pure thou wert created, we enjoy In eminence. 7. Notice; distinction. Milton's Par, Lest、 All men are equal in their judgment of what is eminently best. Dryden. That simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive to perfection, is no where more eminently useful than in this. Swift. E'MISSARY, 2.s. [emissarius, Latin.] Chifford, an emissary and spy of the king's, Bacon. No, nor forth your window peep, With your emissary eye, Ben Jonson. To fetch in the forms go by. The jesuits send over emissaries, with instructions to personate themselves members of the several sects amongst us. These baths continually emit a manifest and very sensible heat; nay, some of them, at some times, send forth an actual and visible flame. Woodward's Nat. History. The soil, being fruitful and rich, emits streams, consisting of volatile and active parts, Arbuthnot. 2. To let fly; to dart.. Pay sacred rev'rence to Apollo's song, 3. To issue out juridically. That a citation be valid, it ought to be decreed and emitted by the judges authority, and at the instance of the party.. Ayliffe. EMME NAGOGUES. n. s. [una and dyw.] Medicines that promote the courses, either by giving à greater force to the blood in its circulation, or by making it thinner. a Quincy. Emmenagogues are such as produce a plethora, or fulness of the vessels, consequently such as strengthen the organs of digestion, so as to make good blood. Arbuthnot on Dict. EMMET. n. s. [æmerre, Sax.] An ant; a pismire. When cedars to the ground fall down by the weight of an emmet, Or when a rich ruby's just price be the worth of a walnut. Sidney. To EMME W. v. a. [from mew.] To mew or coop up. This outward sainted deputy, Shaks To EMMO VE. V. a. [emmouvoir, French.] One day, when him high courage did emmove, Barley is emmollient, moistening, and expec 2. One that emits or sends out. A technical sense. Wherever there are emissaries, there are absorbent vessels in the skin; and, by the absorbent vessels, mercury will pass into the blood. Arbuthnot on Aliments. EMISSION. n. s. [emissio, Latin.] The act of sending out; vent. Tickling causeth laughter: the cause may be the emission of the spirits, and so of the breath by a flight from titillation. Bacon. Populosity naturally requireth transmigration and emission of colonies. Brown's Vulg. Err. Cover them with glasses; but upon all warm and benign emissions of the sun, and sweet showers, give them air. Evelyn. Affection, in the state of innocence, was happily pitched upon its right object; it flamed up in direct fervours of devotion to God, and in collateral emissions of charity to its neighbour. To EMIT. v. a. [emitto, Latin.] South. machs. The act of softening, Lassitude is remedied by bathing, or anointing with oil and warm water; the cause is, for that all lassitude is a kind of contusion and compression of the parts, and bathing and anointing give a relaxation or smollition. Bacon. Powerful menstruums are made for its emel lition, whereby it may receive the tincture of mineral. Brown. EMOLUMENT. n. s. [emolumentum, Lat.] Let them consult how politick they were, for a temporal emolument to throw away eternity. South. Nothing gives greater satisfaction than the 7 of having dispatched a great deal of busiet to publick emolument. Tatler. ENGST. prep. [so written by Spenser.] Among. The merry birds of every sort, Chanted aloud their chearful harmony; And made amongst themselves a sweet consort, That quick'ned the dull sp'rit with musical comfort. Fairy Queen. EMOTION. n. s. [emotion, French.] Disturbance of mind; vehemence of passion, pleasing or painful. I will appeal to any man, who has read this poet, whether he finds not the natural emotion of the same passion in himself, which the poet describes in his feigned persons? Dryden. Those rocks and oaks that such emotion felt, Were rural maids whom Orpheus taught to Granville. melt. TEMPA'LE. v. a. [empaler, French.] 1. To fence with a pale. How happy 's he, which hath due place assign'd This beasts, and disaforested his mind? Empard himself to keep them out, not in; ̧ Can sow, and dares trust corn, where they have Donne. been. To fortify. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprize. Raleigh. The English empaled themselves with their pikes, and therewith bare off their enemies. Hayward. 3. To enclose; to shut in. or divines, every man's own breast sufficiently instructing him. Government of the Tongue. EMPA'RLANCE. 2. s. [from parler, Fr.] In common law, a desire or petition in court of a day to pause what is best to do; and it is sometimes used for the conference of a jury in the cause committed to them. Cowell Keep yourselves in breath, And when I have the bloody Hector found, Empale him with your weapons round about. Shaksp. They have empal'd within a zodiack The free-born sun, and keep twelve signs awake To watch his steps; the Goat and Crab controul And fright him back. Donne. Thank my charms, I now empale her in my arms. Cleaveland. Impenetrable, empal'd with circling fire, Yet unconsum'd. Milton's Par. Lost. To put to death by spitting on a stake fixed upright. EMPA ́Sм. n. s. [sμnáσow.] A powder to correct the bad scent of the body. To EMPA'SSION. v. a. [from passion.] To move with passion; to affect strongly; to throw off from equanimity. Who can bear this, resolve to be empal'd? His skin flead off, and roasted yet alive? Let them each be broken on the rack; Southerne. Then, with what life remains, empal'd and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison. Arbuthnot. Unto my eyes strange shows presented were, Picturing that which I in mind embrac'd, That yet those sights empassion me full near. Spenser So, standing, moving, or to height upgrown, The tempter, all empassion'd, thus began. Milton To EMPEOPLE. v. a. [from people.] To form into a people or community. He wonder'd much, and 'gan enquire What stately building durst so high extend Her lofty towers unto the starry sphere, And what unknown nations there empeopled were? Spenser EMPERESS. . s. [from emperour, now written empress.] Nay, I don't believe they will be contented with hanging; they talk of empaling, or breaking on the wheel. EMPA'NNEL. n. s. [from panne, Fr.] The writing or entering the names of a jury into a parchment schedule, or roll of paper, by the sheriff, which he has summoned to appear for the performance of such publick service as juries are employed in. Co-well. 1. A woman invested with imperial power. Long, long, may you on earth our emperess reign, Ere you in heaven a glorious angel stand. Davies 2. The queen of an emperour. Lavinia will I make my emperess, Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart. Shaksp E'MPEROUR. n. s. [empereur, French; imperator, Latin.] A monarch of title and dignity superiour to a king: as, the emperour of Germany. Who can expect upright verdicts from such packed, corrupt juries? Why may we not be allowed to make exceptions against this so incompetent empannel? TEMPA NNEL. v. a. [from the noun.] Decay of Piety. To summon to serve on a jury. A law term. I shall not need to empanuel a jury of moralists Charles the emperour, Under pretence to see the queen his aunt, Makes visitation. Shaksp. Henry VIIL EMPERY. n. 5. [empire, French; imperium, Lat.] Empire; sovereignty; dominion. Out of use. A lady So fair, and fasten'd to an empery, And kingly government of this your land; Not as protector, steward, substitute, But as successively from blood to blood, Your right of birth, your empery, your own. Shaksp. E'MPHASIS. n. s. [upaois.] A remarkable stress laid upon a word or sentence; particular force impressed by style or pronunciation. Oh, that brave Cæsar! -Be choak'd with such another emphasis. Shakspeare. Emphasis not so much regards the time as a certain grandeur, whereby some letter, syllable, word, or sentence is rendered more remarkable than the rest, by a more vigorous pronunciation, and a longer stay upon it. Holder. These questions have force and emphasis, if they be understood of the antediluvian earth. Burnet. |