emerod 
ahemorrhoid: see hemorrhoid.] Obsolete forms 
of hemorrhoid. 
The men that died not were smitten with the etnerods. 
1 Sam. v. 12. 
emerod 2 !, An obsolete form of emerald. 
An emerod estimated at 50,000 crowns. 
North, it. of Plutarch, Life of Augustus. 
enieroudet, n. A Middle English form of em- 
erald. Chaucer. 
emerged (e-mersf), a. [< L. emersus, pp. of 
emcrgere, rise out : see emerge.] In lot., stand- 
ing out of or raised above water ; raised par- 
tially above surrounding leaves: applied to 
the capsules of mosses. 
emersion (e-mer'shon), n. [< L. as if "emer- 
sio(n-) (for which emersus, a coming out), < emer- 
gere, pp. emersus, emerge: see emerge.] 1. The 
act of emerging; emergence: chiefly used in 
contrast with immersion, etc. 
The mersion also in water and the emersion thence, doth 
figure our death to the former, and receiving to a new life. 
Barrow, Doctrine of the Sacraments. 
Emersion upon the stage of authorship. De Quincey. 
The theory of slow emersion and immersion of conti- 
nents and islands some of them, at least cannot yet 
be overthrown. Science, VII. 803. 
2. In astron. : (a) The reappearance of a heav- 
enly body after an eclipse or occultation ; also, 
the time of reappearance : alS, the emersion of 
the moon from the shadow of the earth; the 
emersion of a star from behind the moon. (6) 
The heliacal rising of a star that is, its reap- 
pearance just before sunrise after conjunction 
with the sun. Pliny, Nat. Hist, (trans.), xviii. 25. 
Emersonian (em-er-so'ni-an), a. and n. I. a. 
Of, pertaining to, or resembling Ralph Waldo 
Emerson, an American philosopher and poet 
(1803-1882), or his writings. 
To be Emersonian is to be American. 
X. A. Rev., CXXXIX. 166. 
Displaying in "conversations" the Emersonian jewels 
and transcendental wares. Atheneeum, No. 3152, p. 372. 
II. n. An admirer of Ralph Waldo Emerson 
or of his writings ; a follower of Emerson. 
It is irritating to the Emerxonians to be compelled to 
admit that his strain has any essential quality. 
The Century, XXVII. 930. 
emery (em'e-ri), n. [Formerly emeril (the form 
emery being accom. to mod. F. emeri)\ = D. 
amaril, < OF. emeril, mod. F. emeril and emcri 
= Sp. Pg. esmeril (= G. schmergel, schmirgel, 
smirgel = Sw. Dan. smcrgel), < It. smeriglio 
(with dim. term.), < Gr. a/tvptc, a/ii/us (also ofiii- 
pic, as if < a/iav, wipe, rub), emery.] A granu- 
lar mineral substance belonging to the species 
corundum, which when pure consists of alumi- 
na with slight traces of various metallic oxids. 
Emery, however, is in general not pure corundum, but me- 
chanically mixed with more or less magnetite or hematite. 
It occurs in very hard nodules or amorphous masses in vari- 
ous parts of the world, but the chief supply comes from Asia 
Minor and the Grecian archipelago. Its principal use is 
in grinding and polishing glass, stone, and metal surfaces. 
For use the stone is usually crushed to a powder of varying 
degrees of fineness, which is attached as a coating to paper, 
cloth, wood, etc. The solid stone itself, however, is some- 
times used, worked into suitable shape. Corn emery, 
the coarsest grade of emery, used in machine-work. 
emery-board (em'e-ri-bord), n. Cardboard- 
pulp mixed with emery-dust and cast in cakes. 
emery-cake (em'e-ri-kak), n. A preparation 
of emery used upon the surfaces of buff- and 
glaze-wheels. It is composed of emery mixed 
with suet and beeswax. 
emery-cloth (em'e-ri-kloth), . A fabric coated 
with hot glue and dusted with powdered emery, 
used for smoothing metallic surfaces. 
emery-paper (em'e-ri-pa"p6r), . Paper pre- 
pared like emery-cloth. 
emery-stick (em'e-ri-stik), n. A stick covered 
with emery-grains or emery-dust, used for fa- 
cing or polishing metal surfaces. 
emery-Stone (em'e-ri-ston), n. A mixture of 
gum shellac and emery or emery and clay, 
used for emery-wheels. 
emery-wheel (em'e-ri-hwel), n. A grinding- 
or polishing-wheel the face of which is coated 
with emery, is covered with emery-cloth or em- 
ery-paper, or is formed of emery-stone. Some- 
times called corundum-wheel. 
Emesa (em'e-sa), n. [NL. (Fabricius, 1803), < L. 
Emesa, Gr. "Euecra, a city of Syria, now Hems.] 
The typical genus of the family Emesidte. E. 
longipes is a common species in the United 
States. 
emesid (em'e-sid), a. and n. I. a. Pertaining 
to or having the characters of the family Eme- 
sidce : as, an emesid bug : an emesid fauna. P, 
. Uhler. 
II. n. One of the Emesidie. 
1898 
Emesida (e-mes'i-da), u.pl. Same as Emesina;. 
Emesidae (e-mes'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Emesa + 
-idee.] A family of heteropterous insects, of the 
reduvioid group, characterized by the extreme- 
ly slender body, witli filamentous middle and 
hind legs, and spinous fore legs adapted for 
seizing. 
Emesinas (em-e-si'no), n. pi. [NL., < Emesa + 
-ince.] The typical subfamily of Emesida;, hav- 
ing a single claw on the fore tarsus. Also 
Emesida. 
emesis 1 (em'e-sis), n. [NL., < Gr. epenis, a vom- 
iting, < cficsiv,^ vomit: see emetic.'} In pathol., 
the act of vomiting ; discharge from the stomach 
by the mouth. 
Emesis 2 (em'e-sis), n. [NL. (Fabricius, 1808). 
Cf. Emesa.] In 067., a genus of butterflies, of 
the family Erycinidat. E. fatima is the typical 
species, and there are several others, all South 
American. 
emett, An obsolete form of emmet. 
emetia (e-me'shi-a), n. [NL., < emet(ic) + -ia.] 
Same as' emetine. 
Tof, vomiting, < eutiv (-\/ *Fe/i-) = L. vomere, vom- 
it: see vomit."] I. a. Inducing vomiting. 
The violent cmetick and cathartick properties of anti- 
mony. Boyle, Works, II. 123. 
Emetic weed, the Lobelia injlata, a plant possessing 
powerful emetic qualities, and a noted quack medicine in 
some parts of the United States. 
II. it. A medicine that induces vomiting. 
Indirect emetics, which excite vomiting by their action 
on the medidla oblongata, act also on other parts of the 
nervous system. Attain, Med. Diet. 
emetical (e-met'i-kal), a. [< emetic + -al.] 
Same as emetic. [Rare.] 
emetically (e-met'i-kal-i), adv. In such a man- 
ner as to excite vomiting. 
We have not observed a well-prepared medicine of duly 
refined silver to work emetically even in women and girls. 
Boyle, Works, I. 330. 
emeticize (e-met'i-siz), v. t.; pret. and pp. emet- 
icized, ppr. emeticising. [< emetic + -ize.] To 
cause to vomit. Also spelled emeticise. [Rare.] 
Eighty out of the 100 patients became thoroughly ill ; 
20 were unaffected. The curious part of it is that, with 
very few exceptions, the 80 eineticinf-d subjects were men, 
while the strong-nerved few who were not to be caught 
witli chaff were women. 
Philadelphia Ledger, Dec. 31, 1887. 
emetine (em'e-tin), . [< cmet(ic), in allusion 
to its emetic action, + -iiie 2 .] An alkaloid found 
in ipecacuanha, and forming its active princi- 
ple. It is white, pulverulent, and bitter, soluble in hot 
water and alcohol, and in large doses intensely emetic. 
In smaller doses it acts as an expectorant, and in still 
smaller quantities as a stimulant to the stomach. Also 
einetia. 
emetocathartic (em'e-to-ka-thar'tik), a. and n. 
[< emetic + cathartic.] I. a". In med., producing 
vomiting and purging at the same time. 
II. n. In wed., a remedy producing vomiting 
and purging at the same time. 
emetology (em-e-tol'o-ji), . [< Gr. lucrof, vom- 
iting (see emetic), + -Xoy/a, < Uyciv, speak: see 
-ology.] The medical study of vomiting and 
emetics. 
emetomorphia (em^e-to-mor'n-a), n. [L., < Gr. 
efterof, vomiting (see emetic), + NL. mori>hia.] 
Same as apomorphine. 
emeu, n. See emu 1 . 
emeute (F. pron. a-met' ), n. [F. , a disturbance, 
riot, < L. emota, fern, of emotus, pp. of emovere, 
move, stir, agitate, disturb : see emove, emotion.] 
A seditious commotion; a riot; a tumult; an 
outbreak. 
emew, n. See emu 1 . 
E. M. F. In elect., a common abbreviation of 
electromotive force. 
In a circuit of uniform temperature, if metallic, the 
sum of the E. M. f. is zero by the second law of thermo- 
dynamics. Nature, XXX. 595. 
emfortht, prep. A Middle English contracted 
form of evcnforth. Chaucer. 
emgalla, emgallo (em-gal'a, -6), n. [Native 
African.] The wart-hog of southern Africa, 
Phacochosnis wthiopicus. 
emicantt (em'i-kant), a. [< L. emican(t-)s, ppr. 
of emicare, break forth, spring out, become con- 
spicuous, (. e, out, + micare, quiver, sparkle : 
see mica.] Beaming forth; sparkling; flying 
off like sparks ; issuing rapidly. 
Here ttiou almighty vigour didst exert: 
Which onicant did this and that way dart, 
Through the black bosom of the empty space. 
Sir A'. Blackmore, Creation, vii. 
emigre" 
emicationt (em-i-ka'shon), n. [< L. emicatio(n-), 
< emicare, break forth :" see emicant.] A spar- 
kling; a flying off in small particles or sparks, 
as from heated iron or fermenting liquors. 
Thus iron in aqua fortis will fall into ebullition, with 
noise and cmicatiun. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 5. 
emiction (e-mik'shon), n. [< L. e, out, + mic- 
tio(n-), minctio(n-),< mingere, pp. mictus, miiic- 
tits, urinate : see micturition.] 1. Sameaswn'c- 
turition.2. Urine. [Rare in both uses.] 
emictory (e-mik'to-ri), a. and w. [As emic- 
tion + -ory.] I. a. Promoting the ilow of 
urine. 
II. n.; pi. emictories (-riz). A medicine which 
promotes the flow of urine. 
emiddest, i>rep. A Middle English form of 
amidst. 
Emidosaurii, n. pi. See Emydosauria. 
emigrant (em'i-grant), a. and n. [= F. emi- 
grant = Sp. Pg. It.'emigrante (=D. G. Dan. Sw. 
emit/ran t, n.'), < L. emigran(t-)s, ppr. of emigrare, 
move away, emigrate : see emigrate. Cf. immi- 
grant.] I. a. 1. Moving from one place or coun- 
try to another for the purpose of settling there : 
as, an emigrant family : used with reference to 
the country from which the movement takes 
place. See immigrant. 2. Pertaining to emi- 
gration or emigrants : as, an emigrant ship. 
II. n. One who removes his habitation from 
one place to another for settlement; specifi- 
cally, pno who quits one country or region to 
settle in another. 
Along the Sussex roads, in coaches, in waggons, in flsh- 
carts. aristocrat emigrants were pouring from revolution- 
ary France. E. Dowden, Shelley, I. 7. 
We are justified in taking the elder Winthrop as a type 
of the leading emigrants, and the more we know him, the 
more we learn to reverence his great qualities, whether 
of mind or character. 
Lomll, Oration, Harvard, Nov. 8, 1886. 
Bounty emigrant. See bounty. Emigrant aid so- 
cieties, in U. S. hist., societies formed fii the northern 
United States by opponents of the extension of slavery, 
especially in 1854, to assist free-state emigrants to Kansas 
with the means of maintaining themselves against the op- 
position of slaveholding immigrants into that Territory. 
emigrate (em'i-grat), v. i. ; pret. and pp. emi- 
grated, ppr. emigrating. [< L. emigratus, pp. 
of emigrare, move away, remove, depart from a 
place, < e, out, + migrare, move, remove, de- 
part: see migrate. Cf. immigrate.] To quit one 
country, state, or region and settle in another; 
remove from one country or region to another for 
the purpose of residence: as, Europeans emi- 
grate to America ; the inhabitants of New Eng- 
land emigrate to the Western States. 
The cliff -swallow alone of all animated nature emigrates 
eastward. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 99. 
From Russia none can emir/rate without permission of 
the czar. Encyc. Brit., VIII. 175. 
The Puritan settlers of New England emigrated at in- 
finite pain and cost for the single purpose of founding a 
truly Christian government. 
A. A. Hodge, in New Princeton Rev., III. 39. 
= Syn. Immigrate, ete. See migrate. 
emigrate!, a. [<li. emigratus, pp.: seetheverb.] 
Having wandered forth ; wandering ; roving. 
But let our souls emigrate meet, 
And in abstract embraces greet. 
Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 228. 
emigration (em-i-gra'shon), n. [= D. emigratie 
= G. Dan. Sw. emigration, < F. Emigration = Sp. 
emigracion = Pg. cmigraqao = It. emir/razioiie, < 
LL. emigratio(n-), a removal from a place, < L. 
emigrare, move away, emigrate: see emigrate.] 
1. Removal from one country or region to 
another for the purpose of residence, as from 
Europe to America, or from one section of the 
United States to another. 
I hear that there are considerable emigrations from 
France ; and that many, quitting that voluptuous climate 
and that seductive Circean liberty, have taken refuge in 
the frozen regions, and under the British despotism of 
Canada. Burke, Rev. in France. 
2. A body of emigrants: as, the Irish emigra- 
tion. 3. A going beyond or out of the accus- 
tomed place. 
For however Jesus had some extraordinary transvola- 
tions and acts of emigration beyond the times of his even 
and ordinary conversation, yet it was but seldom. 
Jer. Taylor, Great Exemplar, An Exhortation, 12. 
It is doubtful whether there is any addition caused by 
einiirrationot white corpuscles from the blood-vessels. 
Proc. Roy. Sac., XXXVIII. 91. 
emigrational (em-i-gra'shpn-al), a. [<ewi'(/- 
tion + -al.] Relating to emigration. 
emigrator (em'i-gra-tor), n. [< emigrate + -or.] 
An emigrant. [Rare.] 
6migr6 (a-me-gra'), . [P., pp. of cmigrer, < 
L. emigrare, emigrate : sec emigrate.] An emi- 
