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EMU 
The Almighty Father from above, 
From the pure empyrehn where he fits 
High thron’d above all height, bent down his eye. Milt. 
EMPY'REUM, or Empyreu'ma, f. [from 
Gr. to kindle.] The imperfeft combuftionof any matter 
in boiling or diftillation, which thence gives a particular 
offenfive fmell. Quincy .—It is fo far from admitting ,an 
empyrcum , that it burns clear away without leaving any 
cinders, or a dull about it. Harvey .—The hopes of an 
elixir infenfibly evaporate, and vanifh to air, or leave in 
the recipient a foul empyreuma. Decay of Piety. 
Macquer obferves, tilth empyreuma is the peculiar 
fmell of burned oils, and that no other but oily fubflances 
can produce it. He even propofes this indication as a teft 
of the prefence of oil, in bodies which contain too fmall 
a quantity of that fluid to admit of any other way of ex¬ 
hibiting it. 
EMPYREUMA'TICAL, adj. Having the fmell or 
fade of burnt fubflances .—Empyreumatical oils, diftilled by 
flrong fires in retorts, may be brought to emulate eflential 
oils drawn in limbecks. Boyle. 
EMPYRG'SIS, f. \_iy.Trvpou, Gr.] Conflagration; ge¬ 
neral fire.—The former opinion that held thefe cataclifms 
and empyrojes univerfal, was fuch as held that it put a to¬ 
tal confummation unto things in this lower world, efpe- 
cially that of conflagration. Hale. 
EMS, a town of Germany, in the circle of the Upper 
Rhine, and principality of Hefle Darmftadt: feven miles 
eafl-fouth-eaft of Coblentz. 
EMS, or Emer, a river of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, which rifes in the bifhopric of Paderborn, 
pafles through the bilhopric of Munfler and Eaft Frief- 
land, and runs into the German Ocean, a little below 
Emden. 
EMS'BACH, a river of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine which runs into the Lahne, three miles 
eafl from Limburg, in the electorate of Treves'. 
EMS'WORTH, a fmall port on the coaft of Hamp- 
fhire, two miles from Havant, feven from Chichefter and 
eleven from Portfmouth. It is famous for the peculiar 
flavour of its oyfters. 
EMU'CID, adj. [from the Lat. muceo, to be mufty.] 
Mouldy. Scott. Not much ufed. 
To EM'ULATE, v.a. \_amulor, Lat.] To rival; to 
propofe as one to be equalled or excelled. To imitate 
with hope of equality, or fuperior excellence : 
Thofe fair ideas to my aid I’ll call, 
And emulate my great original. Dryden. 
V^hat though no weeping loves thy allies grace. 
Nor polifn’d marble emulate thy face. Pope. 
To be equal to ; to rife to equality with.—I fee how thy 
eye would emulate the diamond. Shakcjpeare. 
We fee no new-built palaces afpire. 
No kitchens emulate the veftal fire. Pope. 
To imitate; to copy; to referable.—It is likewife at¬ 
tended with a delirium, fury, and an involuntary laugh¬ 
ter, the conVullion emulating this motion. Arbuthnot. 
EMULA'TION, f. [annulatio, Lat.] Rivalry; defire of 
fuperiority.—There was neither envy nor emulation 
amongfl them, i Mac. 
A noble ,emulation heats your breaft, 
And your own fame now robs you of your refi: 
Good actions flill mu'ft be maintained with good, 
As bodies nourilh’d with refembling food. Dryden. 
Envy; defire of deprefling another; conteft; contention; 
difeord : 
What madnefs rules in brainfick men, 
When for fo flight and frivolous a caufe, 
Such factious emulations fliall arife ! Shakcfpcare. 
EM'ULATIVE, adj. Inclined to emulation; rival¬ 
ling ; difpofed to competition. 
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EMULA'TOR, f. A rival; a competitor.-—In fupe- 
riors it quench,eth jealoufy, and layeth their competitors 
and emulators alleep. Bacon. 
To EMU'LE, v. a. \_amlor, Lat.] To emulate. Not in 
ufe. 
He fitting me befide, in that fame lhade, 
Provoked me to play fome pleafant fit; 
Yet emuling my pipe, he took in hand 
My pipe, before that emuled of many. 
And plaid thereon; for well that (kill he could. Spenf. 
To EMUI/GE, v. a. [cmulgeo, Lat.J To milk out; to 
flroke gently. 
EMUL'GENT, adj. [emulgens, Lat. ] Milking or drain¬ 
ing out. The emulgent veflels are the two large arteries 
and veins which arife; the former from the defeendina- 
trunk of the aorta, or great artery; the latter from the 
vena cava—Through the emulgent branches the blood is 
brought to the kidneys, and is there freed of its ferum. 
Cheyne. 
EM'ULOUS, adj. \_amulus, Lat.] Rivalling; engaged 
in competition.—She is in perpetual diffidence or aftual 
enmity with her, but always emulous and fufpeftful of her. 
Howell. —Defirous of fuperiority; defirous to rife above 
another; defirous of any excellence polfelTed by another j 
with cf before the object of emulation: 
By flrength 
They meafure all, of other excellence 
Not emulous nor care who them excels. Milton. 
By fair rewards our noble youth we raife 
To emulous merit, ancl to thirft of praife. Prior. 
Factious; contentious: 
Whofe glorious deeds, but in the.fields of late, 
Made emulous millions ’mongfl the gods themfelves, 
And drave great Mars to faction. Shakefpeare. 
EM'ULOUSLY, adv. With defire of excelling or out¬ 
going another: 
So tempt they him, and emuloufy vie 
To bribe a voice that empires would not buy. Granville. 
EMUL'SION, f. [,emulfio, Lat.] A, form of medicine, 
by bruifing oily feeds and kernels, and drawing out their 
fubflances with fome 1 liquor, that thereby becomes milky. 
Quincy .— 1 The aliment is diflolved by an operation refem¬ 
bling that of making an emulfion\ in which operation the 
oily parts of nuts and feeds, being gently ground in a 
marble mortar, and gradually mixed with fome watery 
liquor, are diflolved into a fweet, thick, turbid, milky 
liquor, refembling thechyle in an animal body. Arbuthnot. 
EMUNC'TORIES, J, [cmunBorium , Lat.] Thofe parts 
.of the body where any thing excrementitious is feparated 
and collected, to be in readinefs for ejeftment. Ouincy .— 
Superfluous matter deflows from the body under their 
proper cmunElorics. Brown .— Difcourfing of the lungs, I 
(hew that they are the grand emunElory of the body; that 
the main end of refpiration is continually to difeharge 
and expel an excrementitious fluid out of the inafs of 
blood. Woodward. 
EMUND A'TION,/. [from the Lat. c, from, and mun - 
do, to cleanfe.] T he aft of cleanfing. Scott. Not much ufed, 
EMUNG'S, one of the Pelew iflands. 
EMUSCA'TION, f. [from the Lat. e , from, and >nuf~ 
ci/s, mofs.] The aft of clearing a tree from mofs. Scott. 
'EN, an infeparable particle borrowed by us from the 
French, and by the French formed from the Latin in. 
Many words are uncertainly,written with cn or in. In 
many words en is changed into an for moVe eafy pronun¬ 
ciation. 
EN DOR, a city of Paleftine, in the half tribe of Ma- 
nafleh, weft of Jordan, fituated near the Mediterranean; 
whither king Saul went to confult the witch that refided 
there. Jofi.xv ii. n. The woman at En-dor, who had 
a familiar fpirit, is called a'x, Oub, or Ob: and it is in¬ 
terpreted Pythonijja, The place where Ihe refided, feems 
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