Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
embace |
verb t. |
See Embase. |
embale |
verb t. |
To make up into a bale or pack., To bind up; to inclose. |
emball |
verb t. |
To encircle or embrace. |
embalm |
verb 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., To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume., To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance. |
embank |
verb t. |
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone. |
embark |
verb t. |
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard., To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade., To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon., To engage in any affair. |
embase |
verb t. |
To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. |
embeam |
verb t. |
To make brilliant with beams. |
emblem |
noun |
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface., A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity., A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation., To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. |
embody |
verb t. |
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one’s ideas in a treatise., To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. |
emboil |
verb i. |
To boil with anger; to effervesce., To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. |
emboli |
plural |
of Embolus |
emboly |
noun |
Embolic invagination. See under Invagination. |
emboss |
verb t. |
To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work., To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like., To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal., To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood., To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset., To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. |
embowl |
verb t. |
To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. |
embrew |
verb t. |
To imbrue; to stain with blood. |
embrue |
verb t. |
See Imbrue, Embrew. |
embryo |
noun |
The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant, The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus)., The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination., Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud. |
embulk |
verb t. |
To enlarge in the way of bulk. |
embush |
verb t. |
To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. |
embusy |
verb t. |
To employ. |
emerge |
verb i. |
To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. |
emeril |
noun |
Emery., A glazier’s diamond. |
emesis |
noun |
A vomiting. |
emetic |
adjective |
Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth., A medicine which causes vomiting. |
emeute |
noun |
A seditious tumult; an outbreak. |
emigre |
noun |
One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence. |
emmove |
verb t. |
To move; to rouse; to excite. |
emodin |
noun |
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). |
empair |
verb t. |
To impair. |
empale |
verb t. |
To make pale., To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale., To inclose; to surround. See Impale., To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body., Same as Impale. |
empark |
verb t. |
To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark. |
empasm |
noun |
A perfumed powder sprinkled upon the body to mask the odor of sweat. |
empawn |
verb t. |
To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. |
empery |
noun |
Empire; sovereignty; dominion. |
empire |
noun |
Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion., The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire., Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason. |
employ |
verb t. |
To inclose; to infold., To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; — often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one’s energies., To occupy; as, to employ time in study., To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy., That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment. |
empugn |
verb t. |
See Impugn. |
empuse |
noun |
A phantom or specter. |
emrods |
noun pl. |
See Emerods. |
emulge |
verb t. |
To milk out; to drain. |
emyd// |
plural |
of Emyd |
emydea |
noun pl. |
A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins. |