emplaster 
emplastert (em-plas'ter), v. t. [< ME. cmplas- 
treit, < OF. emplastrer, F. empldtrcr = Pr. em- 
plastrar = Sp. emplastar = Pg. emplastar = 
It. empiastrare, impiastrare, < L. emplastrare, 
graft, bud, ML. plaster. Cf. Gr. e/arfataTpovv, 
put ou a plaster, < efiv^aarpov, a plaster: see 
emplaster, u. Abbr. plaster, q. v.] 1. To cover 
with or as with a plaster ; gloss over ; palliate. 
Parde, als fair as ye his name emplastre, 
He [SolomonJ was a lecchour and an ydolastre. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 1053. 
2. To graft or bud. 
The tree that shall emplastred be therby, 
Take of the gemme, and bark, and therto byncle 
This gemme unhurt. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 161. 
emplastic (em-plas'tik), a. and n. [< Gr. ifi- 
w'Aaanii6f, stopping the pores, clogging, < /i- 
xiaaaeiv, plaster up, stop up, stuff in, etc. : see 
emplaster, .] I. a. Viscous; glutinous; adhe- 
sive; fit to be applied as a plaster: as, emplas- 
tic applications. 
II. . A constipating medicine, 
emplastrationt, The act of budding or graft- 
ing. 
Solenipnyte hath etnplastracion, 
Wherof beforne is taught the diligence. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 165. 
empleadt, v. t. See implead. 
emplectite (em-plek'tit), n. [< Gr. invfaKTOf, 
inwoven (see emplectum), + -itc 2 .] A sulphid 
of bismuth and copper, occurring in prismatic 
crystals of a grayish or tin-white color and 
bright metallic luster. 
emplectum, emplecton (em-plek'tum, -ton), 
n. [L., < Gr. efor'AeKTov, rubble-work, neut. of 
^TT/vc/crof, inwoven, < efmteneiv, inweave, en- 
twine, entangle, < ev, in, + jrAe/tew, weave.] 
In arch., either of two kinds of masonry in use 
among the Greeks and Romans, and other peo- 
ples, (n) That kind of solid masonry in regular courses 
in which the courses are formed alternately entirely of 
blocks presenting one of their sides to the exterior and 
entirely of blocks presenting their ends to the exterior. 
Sometimes the [Etruscan] wall is built in alternate 
courses, in the style which has been called emplecton, the 
ends of the stones being exposed in one course, and the 
sides in the other. G. Rawlinson, Orig. of Nations, i. 1U. 
(/>) That kind of masonry, much used in ancient forti- 
fication. walls, etc., in which the outside surfaces on both 
sides are formed of 
ashler laid in regular 
courses, and the in- 
closed space between 
them is filled in with 
rubble-work, cross- 
stones being usually 
placed at intervals, 
either in courses or as 
ties extending from face 
1904 emporium 
See, sweet, here are the engines [an iron crow and a hal- 
ter] that must do 't. 
My stay hath been prolonged 
With hunting obscure nooks for these employments. 
Chapman, Widow's Tears. 
= Syn. 2. Vocation, Trade, etc. (see occupation); function, 
post, employ. 
emplume (em-plom'), v. t.; pret. and pp. em- 
]}litmed,ppT.empluming. [< em-1 + plume.] To 
adorn with or as if with plumes or feathers. 
Angelhoods, emplumed 
In such ringlets of pure glory. 
Mrs. Browning, Song for Ragged Schools. 
LI ... LJIC sillily nlllL.Il wugllv 
paring for vigorous national emplunget, implunget (em-, im-plunj'), v. t. 
'acaulay, Sir J. Mackintosh. [<. em-1, im-, + plunge.] To plunge ; immerse. 
Malbecco. seeing how his losse did lye, . . . 
Into huge waves of griefe and gealosye 
Full deepe emplonned was, and drowned nye. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 17. 
That hell 
Of horrour, whereinto she was so suddenly empluny'd. 
Daniel, Hymen's Triumph. 
You must use 
The best of your discretion to employ 
This gift as I intend it. 
Ford, Broken Heart, in. 5. 
4. To occupy; use; apply or devote to an ob- 
ject; pass in occupation : as, to employ an hour, 
a day, or a week; to employ one's life. 
Some men employ their health, an ugly trick, 
In making known how oft they have been sick, 
And give us in recitals of disease 
A doctor's trouble, but without the fees. 
Cowper, Conversation, 1. 311. 
The friends of liberty wasted . . . the time which ought 
to have been employed in prep: 
defense. Mo. 
= Syn. 2. Employ, Hire. Hire and employ are words of 
different meaning. To hire is to engage in service for 
wages. The word does not imply dignity ; it is not cus- 
tomary to speak of hiring a teacher or a pastor ; we hire 
a man for wages ; we employ him for wages or a salary. 
To employ is thus a word of wider signification. A man 
hired to labor is employed, but a man may be employed 
in a work who is not hired ; yet the presumption is that 
the one employing pays. Employ expresses continuous empodium (em-po'di-um), . ; pi. empodia (-a), 
occupation more often than hire does. [NL., < Gr. EV, in, + TTOt'f (trod-) = E. foot. Cf. 
employ (em-ploi'), n. [< F. emplm = bp. em- Gl - efl1f6ilof at one > s feet in the way similarly 
pleo = Pg. emprego = It. impiego ; from the formed ] f n 
verb.] Occupation; employment. 
As to the genius of the people, they are industrious, . . . 
but luxurious and extravagant on the days when they 
have repose from their employs. 
Pococlte, Description of the East, II. ii. 10. 
With due respect and joy, 
I trace the matron at her loved employ. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 58. 
It happens that your true dull minds are generally pre- 
ferred for public employ, and especially promoted to city 
honors ; your keen intellects, like razors, being considered 
too sharp for common service. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 161. 
employable (em-ploi'a-bl), a. [< employ + 
-able.] That may be employed; capable of 
being used; fit or proper for use. 
employ6 (on-plwo-ya'),. The French form of 
employee. 
employedness (em-ploi'ed-nes), n. The state 
of being employed. 
Things yet less consistent with chemistry and employed- 
ness than with freedom, or with truth. 
Boyle, Works, VI. 38. 
employee (em-ploi-e'), . [< employ + -eel, a fter 
F. employe, fern, employee, one employed, pp. of 
employer, employ.] One who works for an em- 
entom., a claw-like organ which in 
many genera of insects is seen between the 
ungues or true claws. It agrees with the true claws 
in structure, and by some authors is called spurious claw. 
It is prominejit in lucanid beetles. The term was first 
used by Nitzch. 
empoison (em-poi'zn), v. t. [< ME. empoysonen, 
enpoisonen, enpoysoncn, < OF. empoisonner, en- 
poisonner, F. empoisonner, < en- + poisonner, 
poison: see poison.] To poison; affect with 
or as if with poison ; act noxiously upon ; em- 
bitter. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.] 
And aftre was this Soudan enpmjsotmd at Damasce ; and 
Ills Sone thoghte to regne aftre him be Heritage. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 37. 
A man by his own alms empoison'd, 
And with his charity slain. Shalt., Cor., v. 5. 
The whole earth appears unto him blasted with a curse, 
and empoisoned with the venom of the serpent. 
Situation of Paradise (1683), p. 62. 
Yet Envy, spite of her empoisoned breast, 
Shall say, I lived in grace here with the best. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
That these disdaineous females and this ferocious old 
woman are placed here by the administration, not only to 
empoison the voyagers, but to affront them! 
Dickens, Mugby Junction, iii. 
, . - -mn 
plover; a person working for salary or wages : empoisonert (em-poi'zn-er), n [< ME. empoy- 
applied to any one so working, but usually saner, < empoysonen, empoison.] One who poi- 
only to clerks, workmen, laborers, etc., and 
but rarely to the higher officers of a corporation 
or government, or to domestic servants: as 
Thus ended ben thise homicydes two, 
And eek the false empoysoner also. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale (ed. Skeat), C. 1. 894. 
Emplectum I*). 
to face of the wall, and binding the whole together. The 
term is, however, a loose one, and can be applied to any 
sort of masonry of greater thickness than the width of a 
single block, and so laid that the wall is bound together 
by some regular alternation of blocks placed lengthwise 
and endwise. Sometimes erroneously written emplection. 
emplete, v. t. See implead. 
empliet) * t- A Middle English variant of im- 
ply. 
emploret (em-plor'), v. t. An obsolete form of 
implore. 
employ (em-ploi'), v. t. [Formerly also imploy; 
< OF. employer, emploier (early "emplier : see 
emplie, imply), F. employer = Pr. empleiar = Sp. 
emplear = Pg. empregar = It. impiegare, < L. 
implicare, infold, involve, engage, < in, in, + 
plicare, fold : see plicate, and cf. implicate and 
imply.] If. To inclose; infold. 2. To give 
occupation to ; make use of the time, attention, 
or labor of ; keep busy or at work ; use as an 
agent. 
Nothing advances a business more than when he that 
is employed is believed to know the mind, and to have the 
heart, of him that sends him. Donne, Sermons, v. 
Tell him I have some business to employ him. 
B. Jonmn, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
The mellow harp did not their ears employ, 
And mute was all the warlike symphony. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., xii. 218. 
This is a day in which the thoughts of our countrymen 
ought to be employed on serious subjects. 
Addison, Freeholder. 
3. To make use of as an instrument or means ; 
apply to any purpose : as, to employ medicines 
in curing diseases. 
Xii d, halfe to be employed to the vse of the said Cite, 
and the Oder halfe to the sustentacion of the said ffrater- 
nite. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 336. 
Poesie ought not to be abased and imployed vpon any 
vnworthy matter & subject. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 18. 
Thou shalt not destroy the trees, . . . and thou shalt 
not cut them down . . . to employ them in the siege. 
Deut. xx. 19. 
the employees of a railroad company. [Often empo isonment (em-poi'zn-ment), n. [< F. em- 
written employe or employe even as an English ^oisonnement, < empoisonner, empoison : see em- 
word.] poison and -ment.] The act of administering 
To keel) the capital thus invested lin materials EOT rail- ^ n ;<,n** . +u rt o**-n ^f \^ni**rr -m\ic,f\-nt*A . & *\nicr,n- 
To 
standing idle entails loss, partly negative, partly positive. 
//. Spencer, Railway .Morals. 
employer (em-ploi'er), n. [= F. employeur.] 
One who employs ; a user ; a person engaging 
or keeping others in service. 
By a short contract you are sure of making it the inter- 
est of the contractor to exert that skill for the satisfac- 
tion of his employers. Burke, Economical Reform. 
poison and -ment.] The act of administering 
poison ; the state of being poisoned ; a poison- 
ing. [Rare.] 
It were dangerous for secret empoisonments. Bacon. 
The graver blood empoisonments of yellow and other 
fevers. Alien, and Neural., VI. 45. 
empoldered (em-pol'derd), a. [< em- 1 + pol- 
der + -ed 2 .] Reclaimed and brought into the 
condition of a polder; brought under cultiva- 
tion. See polder. 
<um uivcsuLiiei uuuriM cci min VATU JUAIBUAVMUU n BUVII > n ' , -' . -. /-. 
cases. Employers' Liability Act, an English statute faOai, trade, traffic : see emporium.] Of or per- 
of 1880, securing to employees a right to damages for in- taining to an emporium ; relating to merchan- 
juries resulting from negligence on the part of the em- j|j ge 
^^('^^^^^A'isi^^^JKsi^&Si 
of employing or using, or the state of being 
employed. 
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 
The increasing use of the pointed arch is to be clearly 
riss-, contracted stem of certain parts of cmpo- 
vrir, cmpoverer, make poor : see emporer, and 
impoverish, of which emporish is ult. a con- 
tracted form.] To impoverish. 
And where as the coloryng of foreyns byeng and sell- 
yng and pryuee markettes be mayntaned by suffrans of 
vntrewe fremen such as kepe innes, logynges and herbo- 
rowyng of foreyns and straungers to the hurt and enpo- 
nrfttihynft of fremen. 
Arnold's Chronicle, 1502 (ed. 1811, p. 83). 
2. Work or business of any kind, physical or emporium (em-po'ri-um), n. [= Sp. Pg. It. 
mental; that which engages the head or hands ; cmpor io < L. emporium, < Gr. c/ix6ptov, a trad- 
anything that occupies time or attention; office ing-place, mart, exchange, < ifaropia, trade, 
or position involving business : as, agricultural 
employments ; mechanical employments ; public 
employment. 
I left the Imployment [logwood trade], yet with a de- 
sign to return hither after I had been in England. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. ii. 131. 
traced, from its first timid employment in construction, 
till it appears where no constructive advantage is gained 
by it. C. B. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 27. 
The dayly employment of these Recluses is to trim the 
Lamps, and to make devotional visits and processions to 
the several Sanctuaries in the Church. 
Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 71. 
M. Dumont might easily have found employments more 
gratifying to personal vanity than that of arranging works 
not his own. Macavlay, Mirabeau. 
3t. An implement. Nares. [Rare.] 
commerce, < f^jropof, a passenger, traveler, 
merchant, < iv, in, + Jnipof, a way (cf. Euiropei 1 - 
eoDiu, travel, trade, Kopevtodai, travel, fare), < 
/ *7rep, jrap = E. fare.] 1 . A place of trade ; a 
mart ; a town or city of important commerce, 
especially one in which the commerce of an 
extensive country centers, or to which sellers 
and buyers resort from other cities or coun- 
tries ; a commercial center. 
[Lyons] is esteemed the principal! emporium or mart 
towneof all France next to Paris. Coryat, Crudities, I. 59. 
That wonderful emporium [Manchester], which in popu- 
lation and wealth far surpasses capitals so much renowned 
