Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 18
Elytrum (n.) (Zool.) One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.
Elytrum (n.) (Zool.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.
Elytron (n.) Either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings [syn: wing case, elytron].
Elzevir (a.) (Bibliog.) Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. -- Brande & C.
Compare: M
M (n.) (Print.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number. [Written also em.]
M (n.) (Law) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.
M roof (Arch.), A kind of roof formed by the junction of two common roofs with a valley between them, so that the section resembles the letter M.
'Em () An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them. --Addison.
Em (n.) The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.
Em- () A prefix. See En-.
Em (n.) A quad with a square body; "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'" [syn: em, em quad, mutton quad].
Em (n.) A linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica em, pica].
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Emacerate (v. t. & i.) To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] -- Bullokar.
Emaceration (n.) Emaciation. [Obs.]
Emaciate (a.) Emaciated. "Emaciate steeds." -- T. Warton.
Emaciated (imp. & p. p.) of Emaciate.
Emaciating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emaciate.
Emaciate (v. i.) 消瘦下去 To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." -- Sir T. Browne.
Emaciate (v. t.) 使衰弱，使消瘦，使憔悴 [H] To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.
Emaciate (v.) Cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" [syn: {waste}, {emaciate}, {macerate}].
Emaciate (v.) Grow weak and thin or waste away physically; "She emaciated during the chemotherapy."
Emaciation (n.) The act of making very lean.
Emaciation (n.) The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Emaciation (n.) Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) [syn: bonyness, boniness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration].
Emaculate (v. t.) To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.] --Hales.
Emaculation (n.) The act of clearing from spots. [Obs.] -- Johnson. email; E-mail
Aemail ombrant () (Fine Arts) An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain.
Emanant (a.) Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
Emanated (imp. & p. p.) of Emanate.
Emanating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emanate.
Emanate (v. i.) 散發，發出，發源 To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.
Emanate (v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
That subsisting from of government from which all
special laws emanate. -- De Quincey.
Syn: To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.
Emanate (a.) Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]
Emanate (v.) Proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground."
Emanate (v.) Give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke" [syn: {exhale}, {give forth}, {emanate}].
Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. -- South.
Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. -- Jer. Taylor.
Emanation (n.) That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.
An emanation of the indwelling life. -- Bryant.
Emanation (n.) Something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.).
Emanation (n.) The act of emitting; causing to flow forth [syn: emission, emanation].
Emanation (n.) (Theology) The origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; "the emanation of the Holy Spirit"; "the rising of the Holy Ghost"; "the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son" [syn: emanation, rise, procession].
Emanative (a.) Issuing forth; effluent.
Emanatively (adv.) By an emanation.
Emanatory (a.) Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. -- Dr. H. More.
Emancipated (imp. & p. p.) of Emancipate.
Emancipating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emancipate.
Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
Emancipate (v. t.) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child.
Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. – Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Emancipate (v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. -- Evelyn.
To emancipate the human conscience. -- A. W. Ward.
Emancipate (a.) Set at liberty.
Emancipate (v.) Give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: emancipate, liberate].
Emancipate (v.) Free from slavery or servitude [syn: manumit, emancipate].
Emancipation (n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
Syn: Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission; enfranchisement.
Emancipation (n.) Freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child.
Emancipation, () An act by which a person, who was once in the power of another, is rendered free. B y the laws of Louisiana, minors may be emancipated. Emancipation is express or implied.
Emancipation, () Express emancipation. The minor may be emancipated by his father, or, if be has no father, by his mother, under certain restrictions. This emancipation takes place by the declaration, to that effect, of the father or mother, before a notary public, in the presence of two witnesses. The orphan minor may, likewise, be emancipated by the judge, but not before he has arrived at the full age of eighteen years, if the family meeting, called to that effect, be of opinion that he is able to administer his property.
The minor may be emancipated against the will of his father and mother, when they ill treat him excessively, refuse him support, or give him corrupt example.
Emancipation, () The marriage of the minor is an implied emancipation.
Emancipation, () The minor who is emancipated has the full administration of his estate, and may pass all act's which may be confined to such administration; grant leases, receive his revenues and moneys which may be due him, and give receipts for the same. He cannot bind himself legally, by promise or obligation, for any sum exceeding the amount of one year of his revenue.
When he is engaged in trade, he is considered as leaving arrived to the age of majority, for all acts which have any relation to such trade.
Emancipation, () The emancipation, whatever be the manner in. which it may have been effected, may be revoked, whenever the minor contracts engagements which exceed the limits prescribed by law.
Emancipation, () By the English law, filial emancipation is recognized, chiefly, in relation to the parochial settlement of paupers. See 3 T. R. 355; 6 T. R. 247; 8 T. R. 479; 2 East, 276; 10 East, 88.; 11 Verm. R. 258, 477. See Manumission. See Coop. Justin. 441, 480; 2 Dall. Rep. 57, 58; Civil Code of Louisiana, B. 1, tit. 8, c. 3; Code Civ. B. 1, tit. 10, c. 2; Diet. de Droit, par Ferriere; Diet. de Jurisp. art. Emancipation.
Emancipation (n. ) A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone.
Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J.
Emancipationist (n.) An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
Emancipationist (n.) A reformer who favors abolishing slavery [syn: abolitionist, emancipationist].
Emancipator (n.) [L.] One who emancipates.
Emancipator (n.) Someone who frees others from bondage; "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator" [syn: emancipator, manumitter].
Emancipatory (a.) Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." -- G. Eliot.
Emancipist (n.) A freed convict. [Australia]
Emarginate (v. t.) To take away the margin of. Emarginate
Emarginate (a.) Alt. of Emarginated.
Emarginated (a.) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
Emarginated (a.) (Bot.) Notched at the summit.
Emarginated (a.) (Cryst.) Having the edges truncated.
Emarginate (a.) Having a notched tip.
Emarginately (adv.) In an emarginate manner.
Emargination (n.) The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
Emasculate (a.) Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. "Emasculate slave." -- Hammond.
Emasculated (imp. & p. p.) of Emasculate.
Emasculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emasculate.
Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Emasculate (v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Luxury had not emasculated their minds. -- V. Knox.
Emasculate (a.) Having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy].
Emasculate (v.) Deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate].
Emasculate (v.) Remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise].
Emasculation (n.) The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
Emasculation (n.) The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
Emasculation (n.) Loss of power and masculinity.
Emasculation (n.) Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles [syn: castration, emasculation].
Emasculator (n.) [L.] One who, or that which, emasculates.
Emasculatory (a.) Serving or tending to emasculate.
Embace (v. t.) See Embase. [Obs.]
Embale (v. t.) To make up into a bale or pack. -- Johnson.
Embale (v. t.) To bind up; to inclose.
Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. -- Spenser.
Emball (v. t.) To encircle or embrace. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Embalmed (imp. & p. p.) of Embalm.
Embalming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embalm.
Embalm (v. t.) To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm ?is father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. -- Gem. l. 2.
Embalm (v. t.) To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
With fresh dews embalmed the earth. -- Milton.
Embalm (v. t.) To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. -- Pope.
Embalm (v.) Preserve a dead body.
Embalmer (n.) One who embalms.
Embalmer (n.) A mortician who treats corpses with preservatives.
Embalmment (n.) The act of embalming. [R.] -- Malone.
Embalmment (n.) Preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals.
Embanked (imp. & p. p.) of Embank.
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embank.
Embank (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
Embank (v.) Enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke."
Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
Embankment (n.) 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.
Embankment (n.) A long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
Embarred (imp. & p. p.) of Embar.
Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embar.
Embar (v. t.) To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. -- Spenser.
Embar (v. t.) To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
He embarred all further trade. -- Bacon.
Embarcation (n.) Same as Embarkation.
Compare: Embarkation
Embarkation (n.) The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embarkation (n.) That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. -- Smollett.
Embarkation (n.) The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: boarding, embarkation, embarkment] [ant: debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment].
Embarge (v. t.) To put in a barge. [Poetic] -- Drayton.
Embargoed (imp. & p. p.) of Embargo.
Embargoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embargo.
Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
Embargoes (n. pl. ) of Embargo.
Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Note: If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.
Embargo (n.) A government order imposing a trade barrier [syn: embargo, trade embargo, trade stoppage].
Embargo (v.) Ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons; "embargoed publications."
Embargo (v.) Prevent commerce; "The U.S. embargoes Libya."
Embargo, () maritime law. A proclamation, or order of state, usually issued in time of war, or threatened hostilities, prohibiting the departure of ships or goods from some, or all the ports of such state, until further order. 2 Wheat. 148.
Embargo, () The detention of ships by an embargo is such an injury to the owner as to entitle him to recover on a policy of insurance against "arrests or detainments." And whether the embargo be legally or illegally laid, the injury to the owner is the same; and the insurer is equally liable for the loss occasioned by it. Marsh. Ins. B. 1, c. 12, s. 5; 1 Kent, Com. 60 1 Bell's Com. 517, 5th ed.
Embargo, () An embargo detaining a vessel at the port of departure, or in the course of the voyage, does not, of itself, work a dissolution of a charter party, or the contract with the seamen. It is only a temporary restraint imposed by authority for legitimate political purposes, which suspends, for a time, the performance of such contracts, and leaves the rights of parties untouched, 1 Bell's Com. 517; 8 T. R. 259; 5 Johns. R. 308; 7 Mass. R. 325, 3 B. & P. 405-434; 4 East, R. 546-566.
Embarked (imp. & p. p.) of Embark.
Embarking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embark.
Embark (v. t.) 使上船（或飛機等）；裝載；使從事，使著於 [H]；投（資） To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Embark (v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. -- South.
Embark (v. i.) 上船（或飛機等）；從事，著手 [（+on/ in/ upon）] To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
Embark (v. i.) To engage in any affair.
Slow to embark in such an undertaking. -- Macaulay.
Embark (v.) Go on board [syn: embark, ship] [ant: debark, disembark, set down].
Embark (v.) Set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career" [syn: embark, enter].
Embark (v.) Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer" [syn: venture, embark].
Embarkation (n.) The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Embarkation (n.) That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. -- Smollett.
Embarkation (n.) The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: boarding, embarkation, embarkment] [ant: debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment].
Embarkment
(n.)
Embarkation. [R.] -- Middleton.
Embarkment (n.) The act of passengers and crew
getting aboard a ship or aircraft [syn: boarding, embarkation,
embarkment] [ant: debarkation, disembarkation, disembarkment].
Embarrassed (imp. & p. p.) of Embarrass.
Embarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embarrass.
Embarrass (v. t.) 使窘；使不好意思，使侷促不安 [H] [（+with/ by）]；使負債；使拮据；妨礙，阻礙；使（問題）複雜化；使困惑 To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to make (a person) unpleasantly self-conscious; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.
Syn: abash, discompose, disconcert, discomfit, chagrin.
Embarrass (v. t.) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
Syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie.
Embarrass (v. t.) (Com.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
Syn: To hinder; perplex; entangle; confuse; puzzle; disconcert; abash; distress. -- To Embarrass, Puzzle, Perplex. We are puzzled when our faculties are confused by something we do not understand. We are perplexed when our feelings, as well as judgment, are so affected that we know not how to decide or act. We are embarrassed when there is some bar or hindrance upon us which impedes our powers of thought, speech, or motion. A schoolboy is puzzled by a difficult sum; a reasoner is perplexed by the subtleties of his opponent; a youth is sometimes so embarrassed before strangers as to lose his presence of mind.
Embarrass (n.) Embarrassment. [Obs.] -- Bp. Warburton.
Embarrass (v.) Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious [syn: embarrass, abash].
Embarrass (v.) Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass].
Embarrass, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 399
Housing Units (2000): 164
Land area (2000): 1.203737 sq. miles (3.117664 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.003955 sq. miles (0.010243 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.207692 sq. miles (3.127907 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23850
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 44.670716 N, 88.703361 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Embarrass (v.) [ T ] (C2) 使尷尬，使窘迫；使爲難 To cause someone to feel nervous, worried, or uncomfortable.
// You're embarrassing him with your compliments!
// I didn't want to embarrass her in front of her friends.
Embarrassed (a.) (B1) 窘迫的，尷尬的；害羞的 Feeling ashamed or shy.
// She felt embarrassed about undressing in front of the doctor.
// [ + to infinitive ] I was too embarrassed to admit that I was scared.
Financially embarrassed (Humorous) 拮据的 Having no money.
Embarrassment (n.) 窘；難堪 [U]；使人為難的人（或事物）[C] A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. -- W. Irving.
The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. -- Bancroft.
Embarrassment (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
Embarrassment (n.) The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public.
Embarrassment (n.) The state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments."
Embarrassment (n.) Some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" [ant: disembarrassment].
Embarrassment (n.) Extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment].
Embarrassment (n.) [ C or U ] (B2) 尷尬，窘迫；侷促不安；令人尷尬的事 The feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you feel embarrassed.
// She blushed with embarrassment.
// My parents are an embarrassment to me!
Embarrassment (n.) [Mass noun] 窘迫 A feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
‘I turned red with embarrassment.’
Embarrassment (n.) [Count noun ] A person or thing causing feelings of embarrassment.
‘He was an embarrassment who was safely left ignored.’
‘Her extreme views might be an embarrassment to the movement.’
Embarrassment (n.) Financial difficulty.
‘His temporary financial embarrassment.’
An embarrassment of riches (or choice). (ph.) More options or resources than one knows what to do with.
‘Picking a highlight from such an embarrassment of riches is hard.’
‘There is an embarrassment of intellectual riches in the two anthologies.’
‘As consumers we have an embarrassment of choice.’
An embarrassment of riches (ph.) (Formal) 好東西多得令人難以選擇 So many good things or people that it is impossible to decide which of them you want.
Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.]
Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. -- Sylvester.
Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. -- Bacon.
Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. -- South.