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  • English Word Emergent Definition Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent.
  • English Word Emerging Definition of Emerge
  • English Word Emeril Definition Emery.
  • English Word Emeril Definition A glazier's diamond.
  • English Word Emerited Definition Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged.
  • English Word Emeriti Definition of Emeritus
  • English Word Emeritus Definition Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.
  • English Word Emeritus Definition A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
  • English Word Emerods Definition Alt. of Emeroids
  • English Word Emeroids Definition Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.
  • English Word Emersed Definition Standing out of, or rising above, water.
  • English Word Emersion Definition The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.
  • English Word Emersion Definition The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.
  • English Word Emery Definition Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
  • English Word Emesis Definition A vomiting.
  • English Word Emetic Definition Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
  • English Word Emetic Definition A medicine which causes vomiting.
  • English Word Emetical Definition Inducing to vomit; producing vomiting; emetic.
  • English Word Emetine Definition A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle.
  • English Word Emeto-cathartic Definition Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.
  • English Word Emeu Definition Alt. of Emew
  • English Word Emeute Definition A seditious tumult; an outbreak.
  • English Word Emew Definition See Emu.
  • English Word Emforth Definition According to; conformably to.
  • English Word Emgalla Definition The South African wart hog. See Wart hog.
  • English Word Emicant Definition Beaming forth; flashing.
  • English Word Emication Definition A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation.
  • English Word Emiction Definition The voiding of urine.
  • English Word Emiction Definition What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.
  • English Word Emictory Definition Diuretic.