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Thus, ’till the fun had traveled half the fkies, 
Ambufil’d we lie, and wait the bold emprife. Pope, 
EMPROSTHO'TONUS, f. [from Gr. be¬ 
fore or forwards, and meiva, to extend.] A fpafmodic con- 
traftion, where foine part of the body is bent forwards. 
EMP'TIER,/. One that empties; one that makes any 
place void by taking away what it contained.—The emp- 
ticrs have emptied them out, and marred their vine- 
branches. Nahum , ii. 2. 
EMP'TINESS, f, Abfence of plenitude; inanity: 
Defolation reigns 
And emptinefs-, difmay’d, unfed, unlrous’d, 
The widow and the orphan droll. Philips, 
The hate of being empty : 
Ilis coffers found 
With hollow poverty and emptinefs. Shakefpcare. 
A void fpace; vacuity; vacuum .—The ordinary air in 
which we live and refpire, is of fo thin a compofition, 
that fixteen thoufand one hundred and forty-nine parts of 
its dimenfions are mere emptinefs and nothing; and the re¬ 
maining one, only material and real fubdance. Bentley .— 
Want of fubdance or folidity.—’Tis this which caufes the 
graces and the loves to take up their habitations in the 
harded marble, and to fubfid in the emptinefs of light and 
fliadow. Dryden .—Unfatisfaftorinefs ; inability to fill up 
the defires.—Form the judgment about the worth or 
emptinefs of things here, according as they are or are not 
of ufe, in relation of what is to come after. ■ Atterbury 
Vacuity of head; want of knowledge: 
and empty- headed fools ? Raleigh. —Unfruitful; barren.'— 
Seven empty ears blafted with the eafl wind. Geriefs .— 
Ifrael is an empty vine. Hofca. —Wanting fubftance ; want¬ 
ing folidity ; vain : 
The god of deep there hides his heavy head. 
And empty dreams on every leaf are fpread. Dryden. 
To EMPTY, v. a. To evacuate ; to exhaud ; to de¬ 
prive of that which was contained in it.—The Euxine 
iea is conveniently fituated for trade, by the communica¬ 
tion itjias both with Alia and Europe, and the great navi¬ 
gable rivers that empty themfelves into it. Arbuthnot. 
Boundlefs intemperance 
In nature is a tyranny : it hath been 
Th’ untimely emptying of the happy throne, 
And fall of many kings. Shakcfpeare. 
To EMPTY, v. n. To become empty : 
The chapel empties ; and thou may’d be gone 
Now, Sun. «■ Ben Jonfon. 
“ Empty veffels make the loudefl found.”—Agreeable 
to the words of divine wifdom, a fool’s voice is. known 
by a multitude of words. Thofe who have lead: worth, 
are generally fulled ; whereas, on the contrary, thofe who 
podefs excellent qualities, are mod filent on their own 
praife. The French fay, as we: Les tonneaux void.es, font 
le plus de bruit. The Italians : La piu cattiva ruota del carro 
fempre cigola : The word wheel of the cart cracks fil'd. 
1 he Arabians have a proverb to the fame effeft, taken 
from a thunder-cloud, which makes a great report, but 
yields no rain. 
Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 
As (hallow dreams run dimpling all the way. Pope. 
EMP'TION, f. \_emptio , Lat.] The aft of purchadng; 
a purchafe.—There is a difpute among the lawyers, whe¬ 
ther Glaucus’s exchanging the golden armour with the 
brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation. Ar¬ 
buthnot. 
EMP'TIONAL, adj. Belonging to buying. 
EMP ri'TIOUS, adj. Capable of being bought, fale- 
able. Scott. 
EMP'TIVE, adj. [from the Lat. emo, to buy; but not 
muchufed.] Bought; hired. Scott. 
EMP'TORY, f. Not fo common a zoord K An empory ; 
a mart. Cole. 
EMPTURI'TION, f. [from the Lat. emptus, bought. ] 
The inordinate defire of buying. Cole. Not ufed. 
EMPTY, adj. [aemtxjj, Sajc.] Void; having nothing 
in it; not full.—I did never know fo full a voice ifiiie 
from fo empty a heart; but the faying is true, the empty 
veflel makes the greated found. Skakefpeare.— Evacuated ; 
no longer full : 
Himfelf he frees by fecret means unfeen, 
His (hackles empty left, himfelf efcaped clean. Spenfer. 
Devoid ; unfurnidied : 
Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy didrefs, 
That in civility thou feem’d fo empty? Shakcfpeare. 
Unfatisfaftory; unable to fill the mind or defires.— 
Pleas’d in the filent fliade with empty praife. Pope.* _With¬ 
out any Thing to carry; unbunhened ; 'unfreighted.— 
They beat him,and fent him away empty. Matthew. _When 
ye go, ye (hall not go empty. Exodus. 
Yet all the little that I got, I fpent; 
And dill return’d as empty as I went. ' Dryden, 
Hungry ; 
My falcon now is (harp and pad! ng.empty, 
And, till (he (loop, (he mud not be full-gorg’d. 
For then (he never looks upon her lure. Shakefpcare. 
Vacant of head ; ignorant; unlkilful ; unfurnidied with 
materials for thought.—How comes it that fo many 
wojthy and wife men depend upon lo many unworthy 
EMP'TYSIS,y. [from eptrlvu, to fpit.] A difeharge 
of blood by fpitting. 
To EMPUR'PLE, v. a. To make of a purple colour; i 
to difcolour with purple : 
The deep, 
Empurpled ran, with gudiing gore didain’d. Philips. 
EM'PUS, a tow'n of France, in the department of the 
Var, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of Dra- 
guignan: five miles north wed of Draguignan. 
EMPU'SA,y. [from the Greek.] A hobgoblin; a 
fpirit which was fuppofed to go on one leg. Philips. 
To EMPUZ'ZLE, v. a. To perplex ; to put to a (land. 
—It hath empuzzled the enquiries of others to apprehend, 
and enforced them unto drange conceptions to make out. 
Brown. 
EMPYE'MA, f. [from si/, within, and trow, Gr. pus.], 
A collection of purulent matter in any part vvhatfoever ; 
generally tiled to fignify that in the cavity of the bread 
only, and which fometimes happens upon the opening of 
ablcedes or ulcerations of the lungs, or membranes in- 
cloling the bread. Quincy .—An empyema, or a collection of 
purulent matter in the bread, if not fuddenly cured, doth 
undoubtedly impel the patient into a phthifical confump- 
tion. Harvey .—There is likewife a confumption from an 
empyema, after an inflammation of the lungs; which may 
be known from a weight on the diaphragm, oppredion of 
the lungs, a difficulty of breathing, and inability to lie 
on one fide, which is that which is found. Arbuthnot. 
EMPYEMA'TICS, f. [empyemata, Laf. from ei/, and 
trow, pus.] Medicines which fuppurate or produce pus. 
EMPY'REAL, adj. Is/xtripo*;, Gr.] Formed of fire; 
refined beyond aerial; pertaining to the highedana puicd 
region ol heaven. [Tickell accents it on the penult.] 
Now went forth the morn, 
Such as in higlied heav’n, array’d in gold 
Empyreal. Milton. 
Go, foar with Plato to th’ empyreal fphere. 
To the fil'd good, fird perfeft, and fird fair. Pope, 
But empyreal forms, howe’er in fight 
Gadi’dand difmembered, eafily unite. Tickell , 
EMPYRE'AN, f [e^i/poc, Gr,] The highed heaven; 
The 
