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EMBRYOTOMY, _/! [ embryotomia , Lat. from z^Zovuv, 
Gr. a fcetus, and rs/Avai, to cut.] The operation of cut- 
ting a child from the womb of its mother, in obdruCted 
parturition. 
EMBRYUL'CUS,yi. [from Gr. a fcettrs, and 
sAaiy, to draw.] An indrument for drawing a child from 
the womb. 
EMBS, or Ems, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, and county of Embs, or Hohenembs, near which 
are fome baths impregnated with fulphur: ten miles 
fouth of Bregentz. 
EMBS, or Hohenembs, a fmall county of Germany, 
in the circle of Swabia, fouth of the county of Bregentz, 
and the lake of Condance, about ten miles long, and five 
broad, ereCted into a county by Charles V. and now be¬ 
longing to the houfe of Auftria. Its Roman month is 
twenty florins, and tax fixty rixdollars. 
EM'DEN, a fea-port of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and capital of the county of Ead Frifeland, 
on the eafl fide of the Embs, near the mouth ; large, 
ffrong, and commercial, divided into Old and New Town, 
with two fauxbourgs. It contains three churches for 
Calvinifts, befides places of worfnip for Roman catholics, 
Lutherans, Mennonites, and jews. It was taken by the 
French in 175'/, who evacuated it the next year. It was 
afterwards again taken by the French ; but the prince of 
Soubife exacting too fevere contributions, the peafants 
rofe, and drove the enemy out of the town and country. 
It is a free port. The right of protection has been pur- 
chafed by the king of PruHia of the Dutch. Its terri¬ 
tory includes feveral towns and villages. Lat. 53. 22. N. 
Ion. 24. 34. E. Ferro. 
EME ,f. [eame, Sax.] Uncle. Now obfolete: 
Whtld they were young, Caffibelan their eme y 
Was by the people chofen in their dead ; 
Who on him took the royal diadem, 
And goodly well it long time governed. Spcnfer. 
EMEGIA'GEN, a town and fortrefs of Africa, in the 
empire of Morocco. 
EMEND'ABLE, adj. \_emendo,'La.t.~\ Capable of emen¬ 
dation ; corrigible. 
EMEN'DALS, f. \_emenda,- Lat.] An old word flill 
made life of in the accounts of the fociety of the Inner 
Temple; where fo much in emendals at the foot of an 
account, on the balance thereof, (ignifies fo much money 
in the bank or flock of-the houfes, for reparation of Iof¬ 
fes or other emergent occafions : quod in rejlauraiionem 
dantni tribuitur. Spelm. 
EMENDA'RE,yi [ emendamfolvere , Lat.] Inlaw, that 
principle which direCts to make amends for any crime or 
trefpafs committed. Leg. Edw. ConfeJJ'. c. 35, Hence a 
capital crime, not to be attoned by line, was faid to be 
inemcndabilc. Leg. Canut. p. 2. 
EMENDATION, f. \_emendo, Lat.] Correction; al¬ 
teration of any thing from worfe to better.—The elfence 
and relation of any thing in being, is fitted, beyond any 
emendation , for its aCtlon and ufe ; and fliews it to proceed 
from a mind of the higheft underdanding. Grew. —An al¬ 
teration made in the text by verbal criiicilm.—Who, in 
Iris emendations upon Suidas, has lhewn a critical acumen. 
Harris. 
EMENDA'TOR, f. \_emendo, Lat.] A corrector; an 
improver; an altererfor the better. 
E'MER-YAPAR, a town of Afia, in Thibet: feven- 
teen miles from Cha-tcheou. 
EM'ERALD, / [ emeraude , Fr. fmaragdas, Lat.] A 
tranfparent precious (tone, of a green colour. See the 
article Gem and Mineralogy. 
Nor deeper verdure dies the robe of fpring, 
When fir ft fhe gives it to the fouthern gale. 
Than the green emerald Avows. . Thomfon. 
EM'ERALD MOUNTAIN, a mountain of Egypt, 
anciently famous for the production of emeralds, and 
■ fuppofed to be fituated in the range bordering on the 
Red Sea, towards Coftir. Tt is imagined that thefe ernt 
ralds confided of cfyftallized cockle ; which,where found 
of a green colour, and free from flaws, is called emerald. 
by the jewellers. Hence the cockle fpar brought from 
Egypt is called mother of emeralds. It is probable that 
this cockle was, in ancient times, fafhionable in Egypt 
under the name of emerald ; but it is of a deeper green 
than the true emeralds, and alfo wants their tuftre. See’ 
the article Egypt, p. 388, of this volume. 
To EMER'GE, v. n. [ em/rgo , Lat.] To rife out of any 
thing in which it is covered.—They emerged , to the up¬ 
per part of the fpirit of wine, as much of them as lay 
immerfed in the fpirit. Boyle. 
Thetis, not unmindful of her foil, 
Emerging from tile deep, to beg her boon. Dryden. 
To iffue ; to proceed.—If the prifm was turned about 
its axis that way, which made the rays, emerge- more ob¬ 
liquely out of the fecond refraCting furface of the prifm, 
the image foon becamean inch or two longer. Nwton. — 
To rife ; to mount from a Hate of deprefflon or obfeurity;, 
to rife into view :• 
Darknefs, we fee, emerges into light ; 
And Aiming funs defeend to fable night. Dryden „ 
When, from dewy (hade emerging bright, 
Aurora Breaks the (ky with orient light. Pope. 
EMER'GENGE, or Emergency, f. The aft of riling: 
out of any fluid by which it is covered.—We have read 
of a tyrant, who tried to prevent the emergence of mur¬ 
dered bodies. Brown. —The aCt of rifing or darting into 
view.—The white colour of all refracted light, at its 
very fird emergence, where it appears as white as before 
its incidence, is compounded of various colours. Newton: 
—Aiiy fudden' occadon ; unexpected cafualty.—Mod of 
our rarities have been found out by cafual emergency, and 
have been the works of time and chance rather than of 
philofophy. Glanvillc. —Prefling necedity ; exigence. A 
fenfe not proper .—-In any cafe of emergency, he would em¬ 
ploy the whole wealth of his empire, which he had thus 
amaded together in Iiis fubterraneous exchequer. Addif. 
EMER'GENT, adj. Riling out of that which over¬ 
whelms or oblcures it : 
Immediately the mountains huge appear 
Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave 
Into the clouds. Milton. 
Rifing into view, or notice, or honour.—The man that: 
is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds opprefs 
him ; he is not eafily emergent. Ben Jonfon. —Proceeding 
or i(j[uing from any thing.—The Stoics held a fatality, 
and a fixed unalterable courfe of events; but then they 
held alfo, that they fell out by a necedity emergent from, 
and inherent in, the things themfelves. South .—Sudden 
unexpectedly cafual.—All the lords declared, that, upon 
any emergent occafion, they would mount their fervants 
upon their liorfes. Clarendon. 
EMER'GENT YEAR, f. in chronology, the epoch, 
or date, from whence any people begin to compute their 
time or dates. So, our emergent year is fometimes the 
year of the creation, but more ufually the year of the 
birth of Chrilt. The Jews ufed that- of the Deluge, or 
the Exodus, &c. The emergent year of the Greeks,, was 
the beginning of the Olympic games; while that of tils 
Romans was the date of the building of their city. 
EM'ERODS, or Emeroids, f. [corrupted by igno¬ 
rant pronunciation from hemorrhoids, Gr. ] Pain¬ 
ful fwellings of the hemorrhoidal veinspiles.—He de- 
droyed them, and fmote them with -cmerods: 1 Sam. 
EMER'SION,yi [from emerge .] In altronomy, the re¬ 
appearance of the fun, moon, or other planet, after having 
been eclipfed, or hid by the interpofition of the moon, 
earth, or other body. The emersions and immerlions of 
Jupiter’s fird fatellite, are particularly ufeful for finding 
the longitudes of places; the immerlions being obferved 
from Jupiter’s conjunction with the fun, till his oppofi- 
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