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  • English Word Emulative Definition Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.
  • English Word Emulatively Definition In an emulative manner; with emulation.
  • English Word Emulator Definition One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
  • English Word Emulatory Definition Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.
  • English Word Emulatress Definition A female emulator.
  • English Word Emule Definition To emulate.
  • English Word Emulge Definition To milk out; to drain.
  • English Word Emulgent Definition Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.
  • English Word Emulgent Definition An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.
  • English Word Emulgent Definition A medicine that excites the flow of bile.
  • English Word Emulous Definition Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.
  • English Word Emulous Definition Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
  • English Word Emulously Definition In an emulous manner.
  • English Word Emulousness Definition The quality of being emulous.
  • English Word Emulsic Definition Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
  • English Word Emulsify Definition To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.
  • English Word Emulsin Definition The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
  • English Word Emulsin Definition An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.
  • English Word Emulsion Definition Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.
  • English Word Emulsive Definition Softening; milklike.
  • English Word Emulsive Definition Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
  • English Word Emulsive Definition Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.
  • English Word Emunctories Definition of Emunctory
  • English Word Emunctory Definition Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.
  • English Word Emuscation Definition A freeing from moss.
  • English Word Emyd Definition A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.
  • English Word Emyd// Definition of Emyd
  • English Word Emydea Definition A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.
  • English Word Emyds Definition of Emyd
  • English Word En Definition Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.