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  • English Word Emissitious Definition Looking, or narrowly examining; prying.
  • English Word Emissive Definition Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.
  • English Word Emissivity Definition Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.
  • English Word Emissory Definition Same as Emissary, a., 2.
  • English Word Emit Definition To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
  • English Word Emit Definition To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
  • English Word Emitted Definition of Emit
  • English Word Emittent Definition Sending forth; emissive.
  • English Word Emitting Definition of Emit
  • English Word Emmantle Definition To cover over with, or as with, a mantle; to put about as a protection.
  • English Word Emmanuel Definition See Immanuel.
  • English Word Emmarble Definition To turn to marble; to harden.
  • English Word Emmenagogue Definition A medicine that promotes the menstrual discharge.
  • English Word Emmet Definition An ant.
  • English Word Emmetropia Definition That refractive condition of the eye in which the rays of light are all brought accurately and without undue effort to a focus upon the retina; -- opposed to hypermetropia, myopia, an astigmatism.
  • English Word Emmetropic Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia.
  • English Word Emmetropy Definition Same as Emmetropia.
  • English Word Emmew Definition To mew or coop up.
  • English Word Emmove Definition To move; to rouse; to excite.
  • English Word Emodin Definition An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).
  • English Word Emollescence Definition That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.
  • English Word Emolliate Definition To soften; to render effeminate.
  • English Word Emolliated Definition of Emolliate
  • English Word Emolliating Definition of Emolliate
  • English Word Emollient Definition Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
  • English Word Emollient Definition An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
  • English Word Emollition Definition The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.
  • English Word Emolument Definition The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
  • English Word Emolumental Definition Pertaining to an emolument; profitable.
  • English Word Emong Definition Alt. of Emongst