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emissive (e-mis'iv), a. [< L. emissus, pp. of mal tragic dance, or the music with which such 
cmittere, send out (see emit), + -ive.] 1. Send- a dance was accompanied, 
ing out ; emitting ; radiating, as light. 
But soon a beam, emissive from above, 
, , 
Shed mental day, and touch'd the heart with love. 
' 
emmenagogic (e-men-a-goj'ik), a. Of or per- 
emmenagogue; promoting men- 
struation. 
ia[ (lay, aiKl U>UU11 (I tile ucain *YIHL.'V. \ r 'O ' 
Brooke, tr. of Tassos Jerusalem Delivered, i. emmenagogue (e-men'a-gog), n. [= * . emmena- 
2 Pertaining to Newton's explanation of light gogue = Sp. emenagog</= Pg. It. 
t, 1 ",.>* m i s inn. See emission NL. "emmenagogus, < Gr e/^W menses 
by the theory of emission 
The other two theories equally suppose the non-exis- 
tence of a vacuum; according to the emissive or corpus- 
cular theory, the vacuum is filled by the matter itself of 
light, heat, etc. W. R. Grave, Corr. of Forces. 
Emissive power, radiating power, 
emissivity (em-i-siv'i-ti), re. [< emissive + 
-ity.] Emissive or radiating power. [Rare.] 
The cmissivity of a body for any radiation is equal to 
pi. of ////i^of,"monthly, < ev, in, 4- w v = L. men- 
sis, a month), + ayoyof, leading, drawing forth, 
< ayeiv, lead.] A medicine that promotes the 
menstrual discharge. 
emmeniopathy (e-men-i-op'a-thi), n. [< Gr. 
efifir/va, menses, + nd6of, suffering, < -afttiv, suf- 
fer, feel.] In pathol., a disorder of menstrua- 
tion. Dunglison, 
emotion 
I. a. Softening ; making soft or supple ; serv- 
ing to relax the solids of anything. 
The regular supply of a mucilage, more emollient and 
slippery than oil itself, which is constantly softening and 
" parts that rub upon each other. 
Paley, Nat. Theol., viii. 
therapeutic agent or process which 
'. relaxes living tissues, as a poultice 
or massage. The word was formerly applied to 
the so-called demulcents. 
The fifth means is to further the very act of assimilation 
and nourishment : which is done by some outward emol- 
lients, that make the parts more apt to assimilate. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., i 59. 
the absorptive power for the same radiation at anyone gnunenological (e-men-o-loj'i-kal), a. [< em- 
temperature, fait, Light, 309. meno i og ,j f .ic.ai] Pertaining to emmenology. 
emissory (em'i-so-ri), a. [< NL. as if *emis- emmenology (em-e-nol'o-ji), n. [< Gr. l/i/ir/va, 
sorius, < ML. cmi'ssor, one who sends out, < L. me nses (see emmenagogue), + -toy'ia, < Myeiv, 
_ tf jj , ,_^ ,-,,.i n vj,, ,,,);, - ~" 
1'on), n. u 
iiuv^ii- /, \ KIIKJUH c, soften : see emollient.] The 
act of relaxing or of making soft and pliable. 
[Rare.] 
All lassitude is a kind of contusion and compression of 
the parts and bathing and anointing give a relaxation 
or emollition. Bacon, Nat. Hist., I'M. 
litus, pp. of emollire, soften (see emollient), + 
E. -.] I. a. Tending to soften; emollient. 
They enter likewise into those emollitine or lenitive 
emissus, pp. otemittere, send out.] Sendingor spea k: see-ology.] That special branch of med- emo llitivet (e-mol'i-tiv), a. andw. [< L. emof- 
conveying out ; emissive. ical science which deals with menstruation. 
emit (e-mit')i ' *> P ret - and PP- emitte <l, emmer-goose (em'er-gos), n. Same as emoer- 
ppr. emitting. [= F. emettre = Sp. emitir = g OOSe . 
Pg. cmittir = It. emettere, < L. emittere, send emmet (em'et), re. [Early mod. E. also emet, p la Vtres which are devised lor the sores of the head, 
out, emit, < e, out, + mittere, send: see mis- emot; < ME. emet, emete (also emote, emotte, em- Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxvi. 21. 
' c. Cf . admit, amift, commit, demit 1 , de- mo it e , ematte, appar. simulating ME. forms of jj_ ^ n emollient. 
imit, permit, remit, transmit.] 1.^ To send moth: see moth, mad?, maggot), earlier amete Tne misse ito is a greatemoiKMce; for It softeneth, dis- 
(contr. amte, ampte, ante, > mod. E. ant), < AS. Cu88e th, andresolveth also hard tumors. 
Smete, iemette, *emete, an emmet, ant : see fur- Holland, tr. of I liny, xxiv. 4. 
ther under anZ 1 , the common form of the word.] emo lument (e-mol'u-ment), n. [= F. emolu- 
An ant. 
sile, etc 
mift, dimit, ,. 
forth ; throw or give out ; vent : as, fire emits 
heat and smoke ; boiling water emits steam ; 
the sun and stars emit light. 
The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam. 
Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 4. 
While yon sun emits his rays divine. 
Alickle, tr. of Camoens's Lusiad, ii. 
A baker's oven, emitting the usual fragrance of sour 
bread. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, v. 
A body absorbs with special energy the rays which it emmet-hunter (em'et-hun"ter), n. A name of 
can itself emit. Tyndall, Light and Elect., p. 78. ( ne wryneck, lynx torquilla. Montagu. [Lo- 
2. To let fly; discharge; dart or shoot. [Rare.] cal, Eng.] 
emmetrope (em'e-trop), n. [As emmetrop-ia.] 
A person with eyes normal as regards refrac- 
tion. 
went 
emolii- 
Pay sacred IleVrence to Apollo's Song ; 
Lest wrathful-tlie far-shooting God emit 
His fatal Arrows. 
. . 
Prior, tr. of Second Hymn of Callimachus. emme trOpia (em-e-tro'pi-a), n. [NL., < 
,!,. ,. n Aanwa- iaaua fnr ev in 
Gr. 
3. To issue, as an order or a decree ; issue for 
circulation, as notes or bills of credit. 
That a citation be valid, it ought to be decreed and 
emitted by the judge's authority. AyU/>, Parergon. 
No state shall . . . emit bills of credit. 
Constitution of United States, Art. i. 10. 
To emit a declaration, in Scots criminal law, in the 
case 
togi 
made use of at the trial of the accused. 
emittent (e-mif ent), a. and n. [< L. emit- 
tcn(t-)s, pp'r. of emittere, send out: see emit.] 
I. a. Emitting; emissive. [Rare.] 
II. n. One who or that which emits. 
They did it [bleeding one animal into another] yester- 
day before the society, very successfully also, upon a bull- 
mastilf and a spaniel, the former being the emittent, the 
other the recipient. Boyle, Works, VI. 237. 
emmanche (e-mon-sha'), a. [F., pp. of emman- The eye of w hich we have been speaking is the normal 
-.,.. r-j-, i" measure, proportional (< cv, in, + 
fierpov, measure), + lj> (UTT-), eye.] Normal 
power of accommodation, in which the light 
from a luminous point at any distance from the 
eye not less than 10 or 12 centimeters (3.9 or 
4l7 inches) can be focused to a point on the ret- 
ina. Also emmetropy. 
' m-e-trop ._ .. 
ertaining to or characterized by 
emmetropia, 
The state of refraction may deviate in two ways from 
the emmetropic condition. ./. S. Wells, Dis. of Eye, p. 499. 
The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly 
from office or employment ; that which is re- 
ceived as a compensation for services, or which 
is annexed to the possession of office, as salary, 
fees, and perquisites. 
The deanery of Christ Church became vacant. That 
office was, both in dignity and in emolument, one of the 
highest in the University of Oxford. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
2. Profit; advantage; gain in general; that 
which promotes the good of any person or 
thing. 
Profits by salt pits, milles, water-courses (and whatso- 
euer emoluments grew by them), and such like. 
Holinshed, Descrip. of England. 
Nothing gives greater satisfaction than the sense of 
oTa'pTrsoTrsuspeefed'of having committed a crime, emm etronic (em-e-trop'ik), a. [As emmetro- having dispatched a great deal of business to the public 
ive an "JW'^^g 1^ Sf in'writiu" 'and pia + -if.] Pertair.; to or- characterized bv emolument. 
Some of Mr. Whitefleld's enemies affected to suppose 
that he would apply these collections to his own private 
emolument. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 167. 
= Syn. 1. Remuneration, pay, wages, stipend, income. 
2. Benefit. 
makes a perfect image of objects at all these distances. 
Le Conte, Sight, p. 47. 
emmetropy (e-met'ro-pi), n. Same as emme- 
clier, put a handle on, haft 
. [F.,pp. 
;, < en- + 
ropy. 
handle, haft, = Sp. Pg. mango = It. manico, < 
ML. manicus (cf. equiv. dim. L. manicitla), a emmewt, immewt (e-, i-mu'), v. t. [< 
handle, < L. manus, hand.] In her.: (a) Hav- im- 1 , + mew%.] To confine in a mew or cage; 
ing a handle : said of a weapon, as an ax, when 
the head and the handle or staff are of different 
tinctures. (6) Decorated with a doublet : said 
of the field, 
emmantlet (e-man'tl), v. t. [< em-t + mantle.] 
for all distances, from about five inches to infinity. It emolumental (e-mol-u-men'tal), rt. [< emolu- 
ment + -al] Producing profit ; useful ; profit- 
able; advantageous. [Rare.] 
The passion of his majesty to encourage his subjects in 
all that is laudable and truly emolumental of this nature. 
Evelyn, Sylva, To the Reader. 
An obsolete form of among. 
At last far off they many Islandes spy 
On every side doting the floodes emony. 
.,- , .j Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 10. 
mew; coop up; cause to shrink out of sight. emonggtt emoneestt, prep. Obsolete forms of 
\ K.,, .,i...i, ic Vn.<un v**v"e i, o >_t 4 
manche, a or perfect eye. 
This normal condition is called emmet- 
Le Conte, Sight, p. 46. OHlOngt, prep. 
Also enmew, inmew. 
1. To cover as with a mantle; envelop; pro- 
This outward-sainted deputy, 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew, 
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 
jaaaafflas55s =3^jrag*tt* 
ing cope whereof all things are emmantelled and covered), from the vicinity of Tombstone, Arizona. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, i. i. e mmovet, t. See emove. 
hich by another name men have emmonsite (em'on-zlt), n. 
thought good to call heauen (under 
2. To place round, by way of fortification; con- emodin (em'o-din), n. In chem., a glucoside (C ls ment. 
amongst. 
And Cupid still emonnest them kindled lustful! fyres. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 39. 
emonyt, A corruption of anemone. 
emotion (e-mo'shon), n. [= F. Emotion = Sp. 
emocion == Pg. emoqao = It. emozione, < L. as if 
*emotio(n-), < emotus, pp. of emovere, move out, 
move away, remove, stir up, agitate : see emove.'] 
If. Excited or unusual motion; disturbed move- 
H 10 6 ), crystallizing in orange-yellow prisms, 
found in the bark of buckthorn and in the root 
struct as a defense. 
Besides the walls that he caused to be built and emman 
felled about other towns. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxix. 1. of rhubarb. 
Emmanuel (e-man'u-el), n. 1. See Immanuel. emollescence (ein-o-les'ens), n [< L. e, out, 
2. An ointment much used in the latter part + mollesccre, inceptive of mollire, soften : see 
of the sixteenth century, composed of herbs emollient.] In a body beginning to melt, that 
boiled in wine, and having pitch, suet, mastic, degree of softness which alters its shape ; the 
etc., afterward added. first or lowest degree of fusion. 
emmarblet (e-mar'bl), *. *. [< ei-l + marble.] emolliate (e-mol lat), v.t. ; pret. and pp. ernol- 
To impart to or invest with the qualities of Hated, ppr. emolliating. [IrregXL.emottire (pp. 
marble; harden or render cold like marble, emollitus), soften: see emollient.) lo solten; 
Also enmarble. 
Thou doest emmarble the proud hart of her 
Whose love before their life they doe prefer. 
Spenser, In Honour of Love, 1. 139. 
render effeminate. [Rare.] 
Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the 
Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valour. 
rinkerton. 
I think nothing need to be said to encourage it [bath- 
ing in cold water], provided this one caution be used, that 
he never go into the water, when exercise has at all warm'd 
him or left any emotion in his blood or pulse. 
Locke, Education, 8. 
2. An agitated or aroused, and usually distinct- 
ly pleasurable or painful, state of mind directed 
toward some object; technically, a sensation 
excited by an idea and directed toward an ob- 
ject, and accompanied by some bodily commo- 
tion, such as blushing, trembling, weeping, or 
some slighter disturbance not manifest to a 
second party. Under violent emotion all the muscles 
of the body miy be affected, but the most common effects 
are in the expression of the face the mouth, eyes, and 
nose, named in the order of their expressiveness. The 
voice is also generally affected. 
The stirrings of pride, vanity, covetousness, impurity, 
discontent, resentment, these succeed each other through 
the day in momentary emotions, and are known to Him. 
J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 45. 
