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vaft increafe of territory; and tire free navigation of tire 
Miflifllppi, which' is,thereby fecured to them, will increafe 
tire population of the weftern parts, and form a complete 
barrier on that fide. The two Floridas can never be an 
objedl of terror to them; and, in cafe of a rupture be¬ 
tween Spain and the United States, will foon be taken 
pofieflion of by the latter. The Britifh pofieftions on the 
north and weft are alone to be dreade'd, and in the latter 
quarter'they are ftrongly guarded by the forts eftablifhed 
by the Britifh, and lately delivered up to the Americans, 
according to the treaty of Paris. Thus fituated, the 
United States appear formed by nature for a great, per¬ 
manent, and independent, government. Such an exten- 
five trad! of country, covered with a people fprung from 
an adtive and induftrious nation, wliofe example they 
feem anxious to emulate, ought to form a commonwealth 
as indilfoluble as humanity will allow. 
EMPI'RIC, J. [ empiricus , Lat. from tv, Gr. in, and 
weipa, experience.] This word feems to have been pro- 
nounced empiric by Mi! ton, and empiric by Dryden. Milton’s 
pronunciation is to be preferred. John/bn. A trier; an 
experimenter; fuch perfons as have no true education 
in, or knowledge of, phyfical practice, but venture upon 
hearfay and obiervation only. Quincy. —Such an averfion 
and contempt for all manner of innovation, as phyficians 
are apt to have for empirics, or lawyers for pettifoggers. 
Swift. 
Th ! illit’rate wwiter, cmp'ric- like applies 
To each difeafe unfafe chance renrredies; 
The learn’d in fcltool, whence fcience fir ft began, 
Studies'with care th’ anatomy of man. Dryden. 
EMPI'RIC, of Empirical, ad], Verfed in experi¬ 
ments : 
By fire 
Of footy coal, the empiric alchemift 
Can turn, or holds it poffible to turn, 
Metals of droflieft ore to perfedt gold. Milton. 
Known only by experience ; pradtifed only by rote, with¬ 
out rational grounds.—The moft fovereign prefcription 
in Galen is but empiric to this prefervative. Shakefpeare . 
In extremes, bold counfels are the beft; 
Like empiric remedies, they laft are try’d, 
And by th’ event condemn’d or juftify’d. Dryden. 
EMPI'RICALLY, 1 adv. Experimentally; according 
to experience.—We fiiall empirically and fenfibly dedudt 
the caufes of blacknefs from originals, by which we ge¬ 
nerally obfefve things denigrated. Brown. —Without ra¬ 
tional ground; charlatanically ; in the manner of quacks. 
EMPI'RICISM, f. Dependence on experience with¬ 
out knowledge or art; quackery. 
EM'PIS, f in entomology, a genus of infedts belong¬ 
ing to the order diptera. The characters are thefe: 
mouth with an infledled fucker and probofeis: fucker 
with a /ingle-valved fiieath, and three bridles : feelers 
fliort and filiform : antennae fetaceous. There are twen. 
ty-nine fpecies 1 of this infedt now known, moft of them 
very minute, which live by fucking out the blood 
nnd juices of the larger animals. Five of the fpecies are 
found in England ; the larged of which is the empis livi- 
da, feen frequently in our gardens upon plants and flow¬ 
ers; the head is fmall, of a, roundifh form ; the thorax 
gibbous, of a pale green colour, with three longitudinal 
lines or bands. The eyes are of a reddifh brown; the 
upper part of the abdomen of a dufky dun colour ; the 
feet are long, hairy, and of a paler brown ; the wings are 
incumbent, rather long, with dun-coloured veins. This 
is corredtly figured in the engraving. 
EMPLA'GIA, f. [Gr.] With phyficians, a palfy. 
Scott. 
EMPLAS'TER, f. \_emplatre, Fr. impiajlro, Ital, £jM ,. 
irXud\fcv, Gr. This word is now-always pronounced, and 
generally written plajler.~] An application to a fore of an 
oleaginous or vifeous fubftance, fpread upon cloth. See 
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Plaster. —All emplajlcrs, applied to the breads, ought 
to have a hole for the nipples. V/iJcman. 
To EMPl.AS'TER, t>. a. To cover with a plafter.— 
They mu ft be cut out to the qtiick, and the fores etnplaf- 
tered with tar. Mortimer. 
EMPLAS'TIC, adj. [tfj.7rX1zdhy.oc, Gr.] Vifeous; glu¬ 
tinous; fit to be applied as a plafter.—Refin, by its em- 
plajlic quality, mixed with oil of rofes, perfedts the con- 
codtion. Wifeman.—Emplajlic applications are not fuffi- 
cient to defend a wound from the air. Arbuthnot. 
To EMPLE'AD, v. a. To indidt; to prefer a charge 
againft; to accufe.—Antiquity thought thunder the im¬ 
mediate voice of Jupiter, and anpleaded them of impiety 
that referred it to natural cafualties. Glanville. 
Since none the living villains dare emplead, 
Arraign them in the perfons of the dead. Dryden. 
EMPLEU'RUM, f. [tjj.TrXtvyoc, Gr. latera plena ha- 
bctis. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs monoecie, order te- 
trandria, natural order aggregatae, (rutacete, Jujf.) The 
generic charadters are—I. Male flowers. Calyx : peri- 
anthium one-leafed, bell-fhaped, four-toothed, perma¬ 
nent. Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments four, awl- 
fliaped, longer than the calyx, patulous ; antherse oblong, 
fubquadrangular, retufe. II. Female flowers on the 
fame plant. Calyx: as in the male. Corolla: none. 
Piftillum : germ fuperior, oblong, comprelfed, termi¬ 
nated by a leafy, eredf, procefs; ftyle, none; ftigma 
placed on the lateral toothlet of the germ, cylindric, de¬ 
ciduous. Pericarpium : capfule oblong, comprefled, 
crowned by a leafy procefs, one-celled, opening along the 
ffraighter margin. Seed: folitary, oblong, covered with 
a fubcoriaceous bivalve aril.— EJfendal CharaBer. Male. 
Calyx, four-cleft ; corolla, none. Female. Calyx, four- 
cleft, inferior; corolla, none; ftigma cylindric, placed 
on the lateral toothlet of the germ ; capfule opening on 
the fide; feed, one, arilled. 
Empleurunr ferrulatum, or cape empleurum, a fingle' 
fpecies. This is a Ill rub with wand-like ev?n branches; 
leaves like thofe of a willow, alternate, fubpetioled, li¬ 
near lanceolate, even above, beneath longitudinally wrink¬ 
led, fmooth, quite entire on the edge, but appearing to 
be ferrate by pellucid dots; flowers fmall, moft of them 
male. In the habit and aril of the feed it refembles diof- 
ma, but it hasuio corolla, abdonly a fingle capfule. Firft 
obferved by Sparrmann, at the Cape of Good Hope; in¬ 
troduced here by Mr. Francis MalTon in 17.74. 
To EMPLO'Y, v. a. [ emploier , Fr.] To bufy; to keep 
■at work; to exercife. It is ufed both as agent; as,The 
king employed the minifter ; or caufe, as The public credit em¬ 
ployed the minijlcr: 
For thrice, at leaft, in compafs of the year, 
Thy vineyard mu.ft employ the fturdy fteer. Dryden. 
In the following quotations it is ufed with in, about, to, 
and upon, before the object. To feqms lefts proper.—. 
Their principal learning was aplied to the courfe of the 
ftars, and the reft was employed in difplaying the brave ex¬ 
ploits of their princes. Temple. —Our.reafon is often puz¬ 
zled, becaufe of the imperfedtion of the ideas it is em¬ 
ployed about. Locke. —The proper bufinefs of the under- 
ftanding is not that which men always employ it to. Locke. 
—This is a day in which the thoughts of our countrymen 
ought to be employed upon {e. rious fubjedts. AddiJ'ou. 
On the happy change, the boy 
Employ'd his wonder and his joy. ' Piior « 
To ufe as an inftrument: 
The cleanly cheefe-prefs the could never turn; 
Her awkward lift; did ne’er employ the churn. Gay. 
■ iy, ■: L..,'; . ' ■> ■ • -- i - . ‘ 
To ufe as means.—The money was employed to the making 
of galleys, 2 Mac. 
Peace is not freed from labour, but from noife ; 
And war more force, but not more pains, employs. Dryd. 
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