emendatory 
emenda tor, a correct m : .< /';. | Con- 
cerned with the work of emending or correct- 
ing; amendatory. 
He liail what la the first requisite to < m, /;./"(.,,,/ criti- 
cism, that intuition ly \vhlrli the I'uet's intention i- iiu 
mediately discovered. Johruon, Pref. to shak. 
emender ('e-mcn'drr). . One who emends. 
emendicatet (e-mon'di-kat), r. t. [< L. cairiidi- 
mtitu, pp. nl i-iiii titticiin; obtain by begging, < 
e, out, T iiii'ii(lic<if<; beg: see mendicant.] To 
beg. ( 'ocki-m in . 
emerald d-niV-rald), .and. [The term, alter- 
ed after Sp., It", etc.; formerly also emerant, 
i niiniiiil, fiiiriiiiil, (iiii'roil, cinrod; < ME. eme- 
i . fiiiri-tuli; emeruuitdc, < OF. esmeraude, es- 
i-, !'. ( iiicmutlc = Pr. esmvrauda, maraeda, 
t., miinnjili; niiiriifilt', niarinnli', meraude, m., = 
Sp. Pg. esiHcmltlu = It. smcraldo (ML. esmaral- 
dus, c.tiniiniHilitn, imiieraitda, csmaraudis), < L. 
sinaragdus C> directly E. smaragd, q. v.), < Gr. 
an&pa-, riof , sometimes /tapayioc,, a precious stone 
supposed to be the same as what is now known 
as the emerald. Ct'. Skt. marakata, marakta, an 
emerald.] I. n. 1. A variety of the mineral 
beryl, having a deep, clear green color, and 
when transparent highly prized as a gem. The 
peculiar shade of green which characterizes the emerald 
is probably due tu the presence of a small amount of 
.In "in MINI The finest emeralds come from the neighbor- 
hood of M u-i >. in the United States of Colombia, South 
America, where they occur in veins traversing clay-slate, 
hornblende-slate, and granite ; they are also obtained in 
large crystals, though of less value as gems, in Siberia, 
and in Alexander county. North Carolina. 
In that Loud Men fynden many fayre Emeraudex and y 
nowe. ilandeoille, Travels, p. 49. 
The seines echon, 
As it were a maner garnishing, 
Was set with emeraudu one and one. 
Flower and Leaf, I. 142. 
2. The name in Great Britain of a size of print- 
ing-type, intermediate between minion (which 
is larger) and nonpareil (which is smaller), 
and measuring 138 lines to the foot. It is not 
used in the United States. 3. In entom., one 
of several small green geometrid moths, as the 
grass emerald, Pseudoterpna pruinata, and the 
Essex emerald, Pliorodesma smaragdaria __ Em- 
erald-green. See gre.cn. Llthla emerald, or emerald 
spodumene, an emerald-green variety of spodumene, also 
called liiiliteiiitr, from Alexander county, Iiorth Carolina. 
It is used as a gem. 
H. a. Of a bright green, like emerald. 
My sliding chariot stays, 
Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen 
Of tnrkis blue and emerald green. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 894. 
That vast expanse of emerald meadow. 
Macaulaij. 
Thro' which the lights, rose, amber, emerald, blue, 
Flush'd. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
Emerald copper. See dviptae.~ Emerald Isle, Ireland : 
so called from its verdure. The epithet is said to have 
been first applied to it by Dr. William Drennan of Bel- 
fast, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, in his 
poem called " Erin." Emerald nickel. See nickel. 
emerald-fish (em'e-rald-fish), n. A fish, Gobi- 
onellus Oceanians, with a short, anteriorly con- 
vex head, and with a faint dusky streak along 
the sides, a dark bar below the eye, and a bright- 
blue and greenish tongue exhibiting reflections 
like an emerald. It is found in the Caribbean 
sea and the gulf of Mexico. 
emeraldine (em'e-ral-din), . [< emerald + 
-(('-'.] In dyeing',' a, dark-green color produced 
on fabrics printed with aniline black, by treat- 
ing the pieces with acids before the black has 
been completely developed. 
emerald-moth (em'e-rald-m6th), n. A moth of 
the genus Hiit/Hin-liiix, or some related genus: 
so called from the grass-green color. 
emerant (em'e-rant), n. and a. An obsolete or 
dialectal (Scotch) variant of emerald. 
As still was her look, and as still was her ee, 
As the stillness that lay on the I'nierant lea. 
Hogg, Queen's Wake, Bonny Kilmcny. 
emerase (em'e-ras), . A piece of armor for 
the shoulder or arm, probably the gusset of the 
armpit. 
emeraudH, emeraudeH, and a. Obsolete 
forms of rnirriilil. 
emeraud-t, emeraude 2 t, . See emerodV. 
emerge (e-nu'-rj' ), r. ; pret. and pp. emerged, ppr. 
emerging- [= F. cmerger = Pr. emcrger = Sp. 
Pg. emrrgir = It. cmrri/rn. < L. cmergere, rise 
out. rise up, < e, out, + mergere, dip, merge: 
see merge.] I. intrunx. 1. To rise from or out 
of anything that surrounds, covers, or conceals; 
come forth; appear, as from concealment; 
come into view, as into a higher position or 
state : as, to emerge from the water or from the 
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ocean ; the sun emerges from behind a cloud, or 
from an eclipse; to emerge from poverty, ob- 
scurity, or misfortune. 
Thetis, not unmindful of her son, 
//I;" f-l I IK! I! "Ill I I]'' <!' . ]> t.i IM-L- ll'-: ' ' , 
Punned their track. Dryden, Iliad, I. 
Then from :iin-ient gloom emerged 
A rising world. Thornton. 
Through the trees we glide, 
Emerging on the green hill-side. 
SI. Arnold, Resignation. 
Many of the univalves here at San Lorenzo were filled 
and united together by pure salt, probably left by the 
evaporation of the sea-spray, as the land slowly emerged. 
Darmn, Oeol. Observations, II. 268. 
2. To issue ; proceed. 
The rays emerge more obliquely out of the second re- 
fracting surface of the prism. A'eieton, Optlcks. 
3. To come into existence ; pass from being in 
cause to being in act. 
Contrary opposition emerges when a plurality of propo- 
sitions can severally deny the original enouncement. 
Sir II'. Hamilton. 
H.t trans. To immerge; sink. [Rare; an 
error for immerge.] 
Their souls are emerged in matter, and drowned in the 
moistures of an unwholesome cloud. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 18S5), I. 700. 
emergementt (e-merj'ment), n. [< emerge + 
-ment.] Something that rises suddenly into 
view ; an unexpected occurrence. 
Go It would, as fast as one man could convey it in speech 
to another all the town over; It being usually observed 
that such emergements disperse in rumor unaccountably. 
Royer Xorth, Examen, p. 401. 
emergence (e-mer'jens), n. [= F. Emergence = 
Sp. Pg. emer'gencia == It. emergen:a ; < L. emer- 
gen(t-)s, ppr.: see emergent, a.] 1. The act of 
rising from or out of that which covers or con- 
ceals ; a coming forth or into view. 
We have read of a tyrant who tried to prevent the emsr- 
gence of murdered bodies. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
The white colour of all refracted light, at its very first 
emergence, ... is compounded of various colours. 
A'cipton, Optlcks. 
The sulphate of lime may have been derived . . . from 
the evaporation of the sea-spray during the emergence of 
the land. Dancin, Geol. Observations, ii. 273. 
2. In bot., an outgrowth or appendage upon 
the surface of an organ, as the prickles and 
glandular hairs of roses. 3f. An emergency; 
exigency. 
But let the emergence be passed when they need my 
head and hand, and they only know me as son of the 
ot>scure portioner of Glendearg. Scott, Abbot, iii. 
emergency (e-mer'jen-si), n. and a. [As emer- 
gence : see -enee, -ency.] I. n. ; pi. emergencies 
(-siz). If. Same as emergence, \. 
The emergency of colours, upon coalition of the particles 
of such bodies as were neither of them of the colour of that 
mixture whereof they are ingredients, is very well worth 
our attentive observation. Boyle, Colours. 
2. A sudden or unexpected happening; an un- 
foreseen occurrence or condition ; specifically, 
a perplexing contingency or complication of 
circumstances. 
Most of our rarities have been found out by casual emer- 
gency. Glannllf, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xix. 
A man must do according to accidents and Emergencies. 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. 116. 
The uncertainty and ignorance of things to come makes 
the world new unto us by unexpected emergencies. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., 1. 25. 
The emergency which has convened the meeting is usu- 
ally of more importance than anything the debaters have 
in their minds, and therefore becomes imperative to 
them. r'mfrtton, Eloquence. 
3. A sudden or unexpected occasion for action ; 
exigency ; pressing necessity. 
In any case of emergency he would employ the whole 
wealth of his empire. Addison, Freeholder. 
4 1 . Something not calculated upon ; an unex- 
pected gain ; a casual profit. 
The rents, profits, and emergencies belonging to a Bishop 
of Bath and Wells. Ileylin, Life of Laud, p. 159. 
= Syu. 3. CnVw, etc. (see exigency) ; pinch, strait. 
ft. a. Pertaining to or provided for an emer- 
gency ; dealing with or for use in emergencies : 
as, an emergency man ; an emergency wagon. 
Kverybody rememliers the events of the autumn of 
1880; how "boycotting" was inaugurated to coerce Cap- 
t;iin I'.oyentt. mill " niu'ry.-nt'ii men" were established to 
raise the siege of his farm and save his m>j>-. 
r'nrlni : ilitl!i /.''.. N. S.. XL. 117. 
emergent (e-mer'jent>, a. and ;i. [= F. emer- 
gent = Sp. Pg. It. emergente; < L. emergen(t-)s, 
pr. of cmrrgcre, rise out, rise up : see emerge.'} 
a. 1. Rising from or out of anything that 
p 
L 
emerod 
covers or surrounds ; coming forth or into view ; 
protruding. 
That love that, when my state was now quite sunk, 
Came with thy wealth and weighed it up again, 
And made my emergent fortune once more look 
Above the main. It. Jonwn, Catiline, I. 1. 
The mountains huge appear 
Kmcrijnil, and their broad bare l.uck- upheave 
Into the clouds. Hilton, >'. 1., vll. 280. 
Glimpses of temple-fronts emergent on green hill-slope* 
among almond-trees. 
J. A. Symondi, Italy and Greece, p. 1ST. 
Specifically (a) In bryology, rising slightly above the 
perlchictlum : applied to the captmle. (&) In licliewtlogy, 
protruding through the cortical layer. 
2. Issuing or proceeding. 
The stoics held a fixed unalterable course of event* ; 
but then they held also, that they fell out by a necessity 
emergent from and Inherent In the things themselves. 
Sovth, Sermons. 
3. Coming suddenly ; sudden ; casual ; unex- 
pected ; hence, calling for immediate action or 
remedy; urgent; pressing. 
She (Queen Elizabeth] composed certain prayers herself 
upon emergent occasions. 
Bacon, Collectanea of Queen Elizabeth. 
To break and distribute the bread of life according to 
the emergent necessities of that congregation. 
Donne, Sermons, x. 
It chanced that certain emergent and rare occasions had 
devolved on him to stand forth to maintain the Constitu- 
tion, to vindicate its Interpretation, to vindicate its au- 
thority. R. Choate, Addresses, p. 324. 
This Is an elementary text-lwok, ... on the mainte- 
nance of health, with the rudiments of anatomy and 
physiology, and the treatment of emergent cases. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 70S. 
Emergent year, the epoch or date whence any people 
U-yin to compute time : as, our emrryfnt year is the year 
of the birth of Christ. (Rare. ] 
H. n. That which emerges or comes forth; 
that which appears or comes into view ; a nat- 
ural occurrence. [Rare.] 
No particular emergent or purchase to be employed to 
any scuerall profile, vntill the common stocke of thecom- 
panie shall be furnished. Hakluyt'n Voyages, 1. 228. 
There are many ways in which the properties of a mass 
differ from those of its molecules; the chief of these is, 
that some properties are emergent*, not resultants. 
G. II. Lems, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. iv. { 49. 
emergently (e-mer'jent-li), adv. As occasion 
demands ; on 'emergence ; by emergency. 
The particulars, whether of case or person, are to be con- 
sidered occasionally and emeroently by the judges. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 387. 
emergentness (e-mer'jent-nes), n. The state 
or quality of being emergent. [Rare.] 
emeril (em'e-ril), . [Earlier form of emery, 
q. v.] If. Emery. 
Whose (Jersey's) venom-hating ground 
The hard'ned emeril hath, which thou abroad dost send. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, I. 63. 
2. A glaziers' diamond. 
emeritedt (e-mer'i-ted), a. [< L. emeritus, hav- 
ing served out one's time : see emeritus.'] Re- 
tired from the public service after sen-ing a full 
term. 
I had the honour to lay one of the first foundation stones 
of that royal structure, erected for the reception and en- 
couragement of emrrited and well-deserving seamen. 
Krelyn, III. vll. { 15. 
emeritus (e-mer'i-tus), a. and n. [L. emeritus, 
having served out one's time (originally ap- 
plied to a soldier or public functionary who 
had served out his time and retired from the 
public service); as a noun, one who has served 
out his time, pp. of emereri, serve out one's 
time, also obtain by service, < e, out, + mereri, 
serve, earn, merit: see merit.] I. a. Having 
served out one's time ; having done sufficient 
service ; discharged with honor from the per- 
formance of public duty on account of infirmity, 
age, or long service, but retained on the rolls : 
as, a professor emeritus; a rector emeritus. 
Even after he (Josiah Qnincy] had passed ninety, he 
would not claim to be cmeritut, but came forward to brace 
his townsmen with a courage and warm them with a lire 
younger than their own. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 97. 
II. n. ; pi. emeriti (-ti). 1. In Rom. hint., a 
soldier or public functionary who had served 
out his time and retired from service. Such 
servants were entitled to some remuneration 
answering to modern half pay. Hence 2. 
One who nas served out his time or done suf- 
ficient service; one who has been honorably 
discharged from public service or from a public 
office, as an officer in a university or college, 
usually with continuance of full or partial 
emolument. [Rare.] 
emerod't, emeroidt, - [MK. emeraude, eme- 
rowde, etc., < OF. emmeroide, < L. hamutrrkois, 
