emancipationist 
1886 
embalmment 
Gradual emancipationist, in the history of slave,,, Emarginula(e-mar-jin'u-la) [NL.asar- 
one who favored gradual emancipation (which see, under 
, . . , , r/TT ^ 
emancipator (e-man si-pa-tor), . [\LtLi.eman- 
fifnttor, < L. eniancipare, emancipate : see eman- 
ci/ii/tc.'] One who emancipates, or liberates 
from bondage or restraint. 
) + -Mta.] A genus of keyhole-limpets, of 
the family FissurellicUe, or made type of a family 
Emargitmlidte, having an emargination of the 
anterior edge of the deeply cupped shell. E. 
etonaatus, of the Mediterranean, is an example. emDaUOnuria ^m-oai-o-u 
Emarginulid* (e-mar-ji-nu'li-de), n.pl. [NL., ^^l^^L^^llt 
f of the upper jaw, and 3 incisors and 2 premo- 
fare in each half of the lower jaw. The genus contain* 
a few species, distributed from Madagascar through the 
Malay archipelago. 
emballonurid (em-bal-o-nu'rid), K. A bat of 
Richard sei Z edCyprus not as a pirate, but as an avenger T^^f^ A^^ 
he genus Ammgmuia,sep- m/1 ,^ +,. v of , *; T,;n<, B :hn,,t 13 o-nnpra 
emanci 
and emancipator. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 161. 
(e-man'si-pa-to-ri), a. [< eman- 
Pertaining or relating to eman- 
cipation; favoring or giving emancipation: as, 
an emancipatory judgment, law, or decree. 
The first of these [sources] was the ettMitcipatory spirit 
A woman the mostaverse to any emancipatory ideas con- 
cerning her sex can surely identify her name with that 
most sexly of occupations, needlework. 
Philadelphia Times, July 24, 18SS. 
limpets, typified by the L 
arated from the family Fissurellidie. 
emarginuliform (e-mar-jin'u-li-form), a. [< 
NL. Emarginula + L. forma, form.] Resem- 
bling a limpet of the genus Emarginula. 
crochiropteran bats, containing about 12 genera 
and upward of 60 species. They are characterized 
by the obliquely truncated snout with prominent nostrils, 
the first phalanx of the middle finger folded in repose 
above the metacarpal bone, and by the production of the 
tail far beyond the interfemoral membrane, or the per- 
foration of this membrane by the tail. There is generally 
:.-- , - a single pair of upper incisors. The family is nearly cos- 
8, pp. of emasculare, < e, out, + mascultis, , nop olitan, and is divided into JSmballommnas and Molos- 
male: see masculine, mate 1 .] I. trans. 1. To since. 
deprive of the male functions; deprive of vi- Emballonurinse (em-baFo-nu-ri'ne), n. pi. 
rility or procreative power ; castrate ; geld. [NL., < Emballontira + -;.] The subfamily 
. ., 
emancipist (e-inan'si-pist), n. [< F. emanci- Hence 2. To deprive of masculine strength of bats typical of the family Emballonuridai, 
pixte, \emanciper, emancipate: see emancipate 
and -1st.'] A convict in a European penal colony 
who has been pardoned or emancipated. 
There is much jealousy between the children of the rich 
emancipist [in New South Wales] and the free settlers. 
Darwin, Voyage of Beagle, II. 231. 
For some time past the free colonists [in the French 
penal colonies], by no means a numerous class, have de- 
clined to employ emancipists, declaring that while they 
claimed the free mall's wages they would not give the free 
man's work. Nineteenth Century, XXI. 839. 
emandibulate (e-man-dib'u-lat), a. [< L. e- 
priv. 4- mandibula, mandible : see mandibulate."] 
1. In entom., having no mandibles, or having 
those organs so modified that they cannot be 
used for grasping or biting, as in the Lepidoptera 
and most Diptera. This epithet was restricted by 
Kirby to species of the neuropterous family Phryganeida', 
in which the mandibles are soft and very minute, but the 
maxilla; and labium are well developed. 
2. Having no lower jaw, as the lampreys and 
cyclostomous, as a vertebrate. 
emanet (e-man'), v. i. [= F. emaner = Sp. Pg. 
emanar = It. emanare, < L. emanare, flow out, 
flow 
proceed from : see emanate.] 
issue ; emanate. 
We may seem even to hear the supreme intelligence and 
eternal soul of all nature give this commission to the spir- 
its which emaned from him. 
Sir '. Jones, Mystical Poetry of the Persians and Hindus. 
and adv. An obsolete form of 
or vigor ; weaken ; render effeminate ; vitiate 
by unmanly softness. 
Luxury had not emasculated their minds. 
V. Knox, Spirit of Despotism, 2. 
The tastes and habits of civilization, the innumerable 
inventions designed to promote comfort and diminish 
pain, set the current of society in a direction altogether 
different from heroism, and somewhat emasculate, though 
they refine and soften, the character. 
Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 136. 
3. In general, to weaken; destroy the force or 
strength of ; specifically, to weaken or destroy 
the literary force of, as a book or other writing, 
by too rigid an expurgation, or by injudicious 
editing. 
McGlashan pruned freely. James abused McGlashan for 
having emasculated his jokes. If: and Q., 7th ser., VI. 111. 
II. intrans. To become unmanned or effem- 
inate. 
Though very few, or rather none which have emascu- 
& "',% "n/woS "S $^& der fibul*. ' The leading genera are Furia, Em- 
men. Sir T. Broume, Vulg. Err., iii. 17. 
emasculate (e-mas'ku-lat), a. [< L. emascula- 
Diclidttrits albus, belonging to the subfamily" Entballottvrina. 
the interfemoral membrane above or ends in 
it, weak upper incisors, and long legs with slen- 
der fibulae. The leading genera are Furia, Em- 
ballonura, Diclidurus, Noctilio, and Rhinopoma. 
emangt, prep, 
among. 
emarcid (f-mar'sid), a. [Irreg. < L. e- + mar- 
cidus, withered, after emarcescere, wither away : 
see marcid.] In bot., flaccid ; wilted. 
emarginate (e-mar'ji-nat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
emarginated, ppr. emarginating. [< L. emargi- 
natus, pp. of emarginare, deprive of the edge, 
< e, out, + margo (margin-), edge, margin: see 
marginate.] To remove the margin of; deprive 
of margin. 
emarginate (e-miir'ji-nat), a. [< L. emargina- 
tus, pp. : see the verb.] Having the margin or 
extremity taken away. Specifically ~(o) In bot., 
notched at the blunt apex : applied to a leaf, petal, stigma, 
or to the gills of fungi. (6) In mineral., having all the 
To flow out; eiuasuuiauc \,B-IIHB nu-jv, i*. L X *j. C.HH.OHHM*- >/.-....- %- --- T - 
lus, pp.: see the verb.] Deprived of the male I. a. Of or pertaining to the microchiropteran 
functions; castrated; hence, unmanned ; de- families Emballonuridw and PhylloKtomiaee. The 
mwA nf \rlr,nr: emballonuri ne alliance is one of two series into which toe 
"K 01 - Microchiroptera are divided, having the upper incisors 
Thus the harrast, degenerous, emasculate slave Is of- approximated and the tail perforating the interfemoral 
fended with a jubilee, a manumission. 
Hammond, Works, IV. 515. 
Catholicism restricts " religion" to its priests and other 
emasculate orders, and allows the laity no nearness to 
God but what comes through their intercession. 
//. James, Subs, and Shad., p. 211. 
emasculation ( e-mas-ku-la ' shon ) , n. [=F.^mas- 
culation ; < L. as if *emasculatio(n-), < emascu- mer .> en vr, m wr, etc., r . 
lar. emasculate: see emasculate.! 1. The act ****** = Vr.embamOf, embaymar = Sp. Pg. 
membrane, or produced beyond it. See cnpsrttiionint, 
II. n. A member of the emballonurine alli- 
ance ; an emballonurid or phyllostomid. 
imbalin (em-bam'), v. t. [Formerly also im- 
balm; spelling altered as in balm ; < ME. enbaic- 
men, enbaumen, < OF. embatimer, earlier embatts- 
mer, embasmer, embausemer, embalsemer, etc.. F. 
edges of the primi- 
tive form truncated, 
each by one face, (c) 
lare, emasculate: see emasculate.] 1. The act 
of depriving a male of the functions which 
characterize the sex; castration. 2. The act 
of depriving of vigor or strength ; specifically, 
the act of eliminating or altering parts of a 
literary work in such a manner as to deprive it 
of its original force or vividness. 
The emasculations [of an edition of "Don Quixote"] were 
some Scotchman's. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote. 
Three Emarginate Primaries of a Hawk. 
3. The state of being emasculated; effemi- 
nac y; unmanly weakness. 
in"zo., "having' the' emasculator (e-mas'ku-la-tor), n. [< L. emas- 
margin broken by a culator, < emasculare, emasculate: see emascw- 
shallow notch or lafe j One who or that which emasculates, 
incised ; Sed ?- emasculatory (e-mas'ku-la-to-ri), a. [< emas- 
Emarginate pro- culate + -on/.] Serving to emasculate. 
thorax or pronotum, in entom., one having the anterior embacet, r. t. See embase. 
Co a (CTJ)"era nCaVef0rthereCepti0n0fthehead ' Mlnmany embalet, emballt (em-bal', -bal'), v. t.; pret. 
Same as 
In the 
emarginated (e-mar'ji-na-ted), p. a. 
emarginate. 
emarginately (e-mar'ji-nat-li), adv. 
form of notches. 
emargination (e-mar-ji-na'shon), n. [< emar- 
ginate + -ion.] The act of taking away the 
margin, or the state or condition of having the 
margin taken away. 
Specifically (a) In bot., 
the.condition of having a 
notch at the summit or 
blunt end, as a leaf or 
petal : as, the emargina- 
tion of a leaf . (6) In zool. , 
the state of being emargi- 
nate ; incision. 
Either or both webs [of Leaf of Buxus sfmffr! , inns and 
feathers] may be incised PtmttffriitMfttimHt. 
toward the end; this is a, n, Emargtnations. 
called emargination. . . . 
The least appreciable forking [of a bird's tail] is called 
emargination, and a tail thus shaped is said to be emar- 
Kinate. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, pp. 112, 117. 
and pp. embaled, emballed, ppr. embaling, emball- 
ing. [< F. emballer (= Sp. Pg. embalar = It. im- 
ballare, make into a bale, pack up), < en, in, + 
ing. [< F. emballer (= Sp. Pg. embatar = It. im- 
ballare, make into a bale, pack up) 
bale, balle, a bale, ball: see bale^, ba'lli.'] 1. To 
make up into a bale, bundle, or package ; pack. 
All the marchandize they lade outwards, they emball 
it well with Oxe hides, so that if it take wet, it can haue 
no great harme. llakluyt's Voyages, II. 227. 
2. To wrap up ; inclose. 
Her streight legs most bravely were embayld 
In gilden buskins of costly Cordwayne. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 27. 
emballingt (em-ba'ling), n. [Verbal n. of em- 
ball, taken independently as < cm- 1 + ball 1 : see 
embale, emball.'} The act of distinguishing by 
the ball or globe, the ensign of royalty; promo- embalmer (f J 
tion to sovereignty. 
embalsamar = It. imbalsamare, imbalsiniare, < 
ML. imbalsamare, < L. in, in, + balsamum, bal- 
sam, balm: see balsam, balm."] 1. To dress 
or anoint with balm ; specifically, to preserve 
from decay by means of balsams or other aro- 
matic spices; keep from putrefaction by im- 
pregnating with spices, gums, and chemicals, 
as a dead body. The ancient process was to open the 
body, remove the viscera, and fill the cavities with anti- 
septic spices and drugs. (See mummy.) In modern times 
many substances and methods have been employed in em- 
balming, as by injection of arsenical preparations into the 
blood-vessels, generally with a view only to the preserva- 
tion of the body for a certain period, as during transporta- 
tion to a distant point, or instead of refrigeration in hot 
weather during the ordinary interval before burial. 
Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to em- 
Itatm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. 
Gen. 1. 2. 
Unto this appertained the ancient use of the Jews to 
embalm the corpse with sweet odours, and to adorn the 
sepulchres of certain. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 75. 
Hence 2. To preserve from neglect or decay ; 
preserve in memory. 
Those tears eternal, that embalm the dead. 
Pope, Ep. to Jervas, 1. 48. 
No longer caring to embalm 
In dying songs a dead regret. 
Tennyson, In Mcnioriam, Conclusion. 
3. To impart fragrance to ; fill with sweet scent. 
Meanwhile, 
Leucothea waked, and with fresh dews embalm'd 
The earth. .ViVfr.ii, P. L., xi. 135. 
Here eglantine embalmed the air. 
Scott, L. of the L., i. 12. 
Anne. I swear again, I would not be a queen 
For all the world. 
Old L. In faith, for little England 
You'd venture an emballing. Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 
emarginato-excavate (e-mar-ji-na't6-eks'ka- Emballonura (em-bal-6-nu'ra), n. [NL., < Gr. 
vat), a. In entom., hollowed out above, the Ipp&fauv, throw in, + ovpa, tail.] The typical 
next joint being inserted in the hollow, as a 
tarsal joint. 
genus of bats of the family Emballonuridai. The 
tail perforates the interfemoral membrane and appears 
[= F. embaumeiir .~\ 
One who embalms bodies for preservation. 
By this it seemeth that the Romans in Numa's time were 
not so good embalmers as the Egyptians were. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 171. 
embalmment (em-bam'ment), n. [= F. em- 
baumement; as embalm + -ment.'] 1. The act 
or process of embalming. 
Lord Jefferies ordered the hearseman to carry the cnrjisf 
to Russell's, an undertaker in Cheapside, and leave it 
