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  • English Word Emboitement Definition The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.
  • English Word Embolden Definition To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
  • English Word Emboldened Definition of Embolden
  • English Word Emboldener Definition One who emboldens.
  • English Word Emboldening Definition of Embolden
  • English Word Emboli Definition of Embolus
  • English Word Embolic Definition Embolismic.
  • English Word Embolic Definition Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.
  • English Word Embolic Definition Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
  • English Word Embolism Definition Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
  • English Word Embolism Definition Intercalated time.
  • English Word Embolism Definition The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.
  • English Word Embolismal Definition Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
  • English Word Embolismatic Definition Alt. of Embolismatical
  • English Word Embolismatical Definition Embolismic.
  • English Word Embolismic Definition Alt. of Embolismical
  • English Word Embolismical Definition Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
  • English Word Embolite Definition A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
  • English Word Embolus Definition Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
  • English Word Embolus Definition A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
  • English Word Emboly Definition Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.
  • English Word Embonpoint Definition Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
  • English Word Emborder Definition To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
  • English Word Embosom Definition To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
  • English Word Embosom Definition To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.
  • English Word Emboss Definition To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
  • English Word Emboss Definition To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
  • English Word Emboss Definition To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
  • English Word Emboss Definition To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
  • English Word Emboss Definition To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.