Fit words attended on his weighty sense, And mild persuasion flow'd in eloquence. Pope. ELOQUENT. adj. [eloquens, Latin.] Having the power of oratory; having the power of fluent and elegant speech. orator. The Lord of hosts doth take away the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent Isaiah. Oh death! all eloquent, you only prove What dust we dote on when 'tis man we love. Pope. ELSE. pronoun. [eller, Saxon.] Other; one besides it is applied both to persons and things. To stand stained with travel, and sweating with desire to see him; thinking of nothing else, putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there were nothing else to be done but to see him. Shaksp. Should he or any else search, he will find evidence of the Divine Wisdom. Hale. He says, 'twas then with him, as now with you; He did it when he had nothing else to do. Denham. ELSE. adv. 1. Otherwise. Dare not, on thy life, Dryden. What ways are there whereby we should be assured, but either by an internal impression of the notion of a God upon our minds, or else by such external and visible effects as our reason tells us must be attributed to some cause? Be more abstemious, Or else good night your vow. Shakspeare. E'LSEWHERE. adv. [else and where.] 1. In any other place. There are here divers trees, which are not to be found elsewhere. Abbot's Desc. of the World. As he proved that Pison was not Ganges, or Gehon, Nilus; so where to find them elsewhere he knew not. Raleigh's History. For, if we chance to fix our thoughts elsewhere, Though our eyes open be, we cannot see. Davies. Milton. Although seasoned bodies may and do live near as long in London as elsewhere, yet newcomers and children do not. Graunt: 2. In other places; in some other place. They which elsewhere complain, that injury is offered to the meanest minister, when the ma"gistrate appointeth him what to wear, think the gravest prelates no competent judges where it is fit for the minister to stand. Hooker. Let us no more contend, nor blame Dryden. If it contradict what he says elsewhere, it is no new or strange thing. TO ELUCIDATE. v. a. [elucido, Latin.] We shall, in order to the elucidation of this Obscurity is brought over them by the course of ignorance and age, and yet more by their pedantical elucidators. Abbot. To ELU ́DE. v.a. [eludo, Latin.] Several pernicious vices, notorious among us, escape or clude the punishment of any law yet invented. Swift. He who looks no higher for the motives of his conduct than the resentment of human justice, whenever he can presume himself cunning enough to elude, rich enough to bribe, or strong enough to resist it, will be under no restraint. Rogeri. 2. To mock by any unexpected escape. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. Pope. ELU DIBLE. adj. [from elude.] Possible to be defeated. ELVES. The plural of elf. See ELF. Whose midnight revels by some forest side, Milton. Ye sylphs and sylphids to your chief give ear; Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope. E'LVELOCK. 2.s. [from elves and lock.] Knots in the hair superstitiously supposed to be tangled by the fairies. From the like might proceed the fears of polling elvclocks, or complicated hairs of the heada Brown's Vulgar Ertours. ELVISH. adj. [from elves, the plural of elf: it had been written more properly elfish.] Relating to elves, or wandering spirits. Thou elvish markt, abortive, rioting hog! No muse hath been so bold, Blaise of the bridal day, she gives Pope. ELUSORY, adj. [from elude.] Tending to elude; tending to deceive; fraudulent; deceitful; fallacions. It may be feared they are but Parthian flights, ambascade retreats, and elusory tergiversation. Brown's Vulgar Errours. TELUTE. o. a. [eluo, Lat.] To wash off. The more oily any spirit is, the more pernicious; because it is harder to be eluted by the Arbuthnot on Aliments. blood. TELU TRIATE. v. a [elutrio, Latin.] The pressure of the air upon the lungs is much less than it has been computed by some; but still it is something, and the alteration of one tenth of its force upon the lungs must produce some difference in clutriating the blood as it passes through the lungs. Arbuthnot on Air, ELYSIAN. adj. [elysius, Latin.] Pertaining to elysium; pleasant; deliciously soft and soothing; exceedingly delightful. The river of life, through midst of heaven, Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream. 1. The act of issuing or proceeding from any other substance. Milton. ELYSIUM. n. s. [Latin.] The place assigned by the heathens to happy souls; any place exquisitely pleasant. To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth, So should'st thou either turn my flying soul, Or I should breathe it so into thy body, And then it liv'd in sweet Elysium. 'EM. A contraction of them. For he could coin and counterfeit Shaksp. Áristotle said, that it streamed by connatural result and emanation from God, the infinite and eternal Mind, as the light issues from the sun. South. 2. That which issues from another substance; an efflux; effluvium. Hudibras. New words with little or no wit; Bacon. All dying of the consumption, die emaciated and lean. Graunt. TEMA CIATE. V. n. To lose flesh; to pine; to grow lean. He emaciated and pined away in the too anxous enquiry of the sea's reciprocation, although not drowned therein. Brown. EMACIATION. n. s. [emaciatus, Latin.] The experience of those profitable and excellent emanations from God, may be, and commonly are, the first motive of our love. Taylor. Another way of attraction is delivered by a tenuous emanation, or continued effluvium, which, after some distance, retracteth unto itself; as in syrups, oils, and viscosities, which spun, at length, retire into their former dimenBrown. sions. Such were the features of her heav'nly face; Her limbs were form'd with such harmonious grace; So faultless was the frame, as if the whole Dryden. The letters, every judge will see, were by no means efforts of the genius, but emanations of the heart. Pope Each emanation of his fires Searchers cannot tell whether this emaciation or leanness were from a phthisis, or from an hectick fever. Graunt. EMACULATION. n.s. [emaculo, Latin.] EMANANT. adj. [emanans, Lat.] Issuing The first act of the divine nature, relating to the world, and his administration thereof, is an anant act: the most wise counsel and purpose of almighty God terminate in those two great transient or emanant acts or works, the work of creation and providence. To EMANATE. .n. Hale. Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. Glanville's Scepsis. To EMARGINATE. v. a. [margo, Latin.] To take away the margin or edge of any thing. Dict. To EMA'SCULATE. v. a. [emasculo, Lat.] 1. To castrate; to deprive of virility. When it is found how many ewes, suppose twenty, one ram will serve, we may geld nineteen, or thereabouts; for if you emasculate but ten, you shall, by promiscuous copulation, hinder the increase. Graant. 2. To effeminate; to weaken; to vitiate by unmanly softness. From wars and from affairs of state abstain; Women emasculate a monarch's reign. Dryden. Dangerous principles impose upon our under standings, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper. Collier. EMASCULATION. n. s. [from emasculate.] 1. Castration. 2. Effeminacy; womanish qualities; unmanly softness. [emano, Lat.] To To EMBA'LE. v. a. [emballer, French.] issue or flow from something else. EMANATION. #, S. [emanatio, Latin.] 1. To make up into a bundle. Below her ham her weed did somewhat train, And her straight legs most bravely were embal'd In golden buskins of costly cordwain. Fairy Queen. To EMBAʼLM. v. a. [embaumer, French; embalsamer, Spanish.] To impregnate a body with aromaticks, that it may resist putrefaction. Embalm me, Shakspeare. Verse embalms virtue, and tombs or thrones Preserve frail transitory fame as much Muse! at that name thy sacred sorrows shed; Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope. EMBAʼLMER. n. s. [from embalm.] One that practises the art of embalming and preserving bodies. The Romans were not so good embalmers as the Egyptians, so the body was utterly consumed. Bacon's Natural History. To EMBA R. v. a. [from bar.] 1. To shut; to enclose. Themselves for fear into his jaws to fall, In form of airy members fair embar'd Fairfax. 2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. Translating the mart unto Calais, he embared all further trade for the future. Bason. If this commerce 'twixt heav'n and earth were not Embar'd, and all this traffick quite forgot, EMBARCATION. n. s. [from embark.] The French gentlemen were very solicitous for the embarcation of the army, and for the departure of the fleet. Clarendon. 2. The act of going on shipboard. EMBARGO. n. 5. [embargar, Spanish.] A prohibition to pass; in commerce, a stop put to trade. He knew that the subjects of Flanders drew so great commodity from the trade of England, as by embargo they would soon wax weary of Perkin. Bacon's Henry VII. After an embargo of our trading ships in the river of Bourdeaux, and other points of sovereign affront, there did succeed the action of Rheez. Wotton. I was not much concerned, in my own particular, for the embargo which was laíu upon it. Dryden. To EMBARK. v. a. [embarquer, French.] 1. To put on shipboard. Of mankind, so numerous late, All left, in one small bottom swam embark'd. Milton. The king had provided a good fleet, and had caused a body of three thousand foot to be embarked on those ships. Clarendon. Straight to the ships Æneas took his way, Embark'd his men, and skim'd along the sea. Dryden's Æneid. another in any affair. engage 2. Το I should with speed embark, 2. To engage in any affair. Let your method be plain, that your hearers may run through it without embarrassment, and take a clear view of the whole. Watts, To EMBASE. V. a. [from base.] 1. To vitiate; to depauperate; to lower; to deprave; to impair. Grains are annual, so that the virtue of the seed is not worn out; whereas in a tree it is em based by the ground. Bacon. I have no service or ignoble end in my present labour, which may, on either side, restrain or embase the freedom of my poor judgment. Wetten. I will rather chuse to wear a crown of thorns, than to exchange that of gold for one of lead, whose embased flexibleness shall be forced to bend. King Charles. A pleasure high, rational, and angelical; a pleasure embased with no appendant sting: but such a one as being honey in the mouth, never turns to gall or gravel in the belly. South. 2. To degrade; to vilify. Joy of my life, full oft for loving you I bless my lot, that was so lucky plac'd; But then the more your own mishap I rue, That are so much by so mean love embas'd. Spenser. EMBASSADOR. n. s. [See AMBASSADOUR.] One sent on a publick message. Mighty Jove's embassador appear'd With the same message. Denbam. Myself, my king's embassador, will go. Dryden. EMBASSADRESS. n. s. A woman sent on a publick message. With fear the modest matron lifts her eyes, EMBASSAGE.1n. s. And to the bright embassadress replies. Garth. [It may be ob E'MBASSY. served, that though our authors write almost indiscriminately embassador or ambassador, embassage or ambassage; yet there is scarcely an example of ambassy, all concurring to write embassy.] 1. A publick message; a message concerning business between princes or states. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees Taylor. 3. An errand, in an ironical sense. A bird was made fly with such art to carry a written embassage among the ladies, that one how made? might say If a live bird, how taught? If dead, And am I last that know it? To horse! you gallant princes, strait to horse! Shaksp. I could drive her from the ward of her reputatica, her marriage-vow, and a thousand other her defences, which now are too strongly embattled against me. Shaksp. On their embattl'd ranks the waves return, And overwhelm the war! Embattl'd nations strive in vain The hero's glory to restrain : Milton. Streams arm'd with rocks, and mountains red with fire, Prior. In vain against his force conspire. TEMBATTLE. V.n. To be ranged in battle arcay. The night Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle To EMBA'Y. v. a. bathe, French.] Shaksp. [from baigner, to 1. To bathe; to wet; to wash. Not used. In her lap a little babe did play His cruel sport; For in her streaming blood he did embay [from bay.] To enclose in a bay; to land lock. If that the Turkish fleet How much more beauteous had the fountain E'MEERING. n. 5. Embellish'd with her first created green; run, to shew but ruins. word used by old authors, now obso lete. For causes good so many ways, Keep emb'rings well, and fasting days; What law commands we ought to obey, For Friday, Saturn, and Wednesday. Tusser. EMBERS. n.5. without a singular [æmypia, Saxon, ashes; einmyria, Islandick, hot ashes or cinders.] Hot cinders ; ashes not yet extinguished. Take hot embers, and put them about a bottle filled with new beer, almost to the very neck; let the bottle be well stopped, lest it fly out; and continue it, renewing the_embers every day for the space of ten days. Bacon's Nat. Hist. If the air will not permit, Milton. While thus heav'n's highest counsels, by the low Footsteps of their effects, he trac'd too well, He tost his troubled eyes, embers that glow Dryden's Virgil. E'MBER WEEK. n. s. [The original of this word has been much controverted: some derive it from embers or ashes strewed by penitents on their heads; but Nelson decides in favour of Mareschal, who derives it from ymbren or embren, a course or circumvolution.] A week in which an ember day falls. The ember days at the four seasons are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, the feast of Pentecost, September 14, December 13. Common Prayer. Stated times appointed for fasting are Lent, and the four seasons of the year called emberweeks. Ayliffe's Parergon. To EMBEʼZZLE. v. a. [This word seems corrupted by an ignorant pronunciation from imbecile.] 1. To appropriate by breach of trust; to turn what is intrusted in his hands to his own use. He had embezzled the king's treasure, and extorted money by way of loan from all men. Hayward. 2. To waste; to swallow up in riot. Contented with an urn of native stone. Dryden. The names of the figures that embellished the discourses of those that understood the art of EMBEZZLEMENT. n. s. [from embezzle.] speaking, are not the art and skill of speaking well. 1. The act of appropriating to himself That which was once the most beautiful spot Locke. that which is received in trust for anof Italy, covered with palaces, embellished by emother. perors, and celebrated by poets, has now nothing EMBELLISHMENT. n.s. [from embellish.] Addison on Italy Ornament; adventitious beauty; decoration; adscitious grace; any thing that confers the power of pleasing. Cultivate the wild licentious savage With wisdom, discipline, and liberal arts, The embellishments of like. Apparitions, visions, and intercourses of all Addison's Cato. kinds between the dead and the living, are the frequent and familiar embellishments of the legends of the Romish church. Atterbury, 2. The thing appropriated. ments. Th' unsought diamonds No weeping orphan saw his father's stores, Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Popea 2. To blazon; to paint with ensigns armorial. v. a. [from the noun.] To represent in an occult or allusive manner. Not used. The primitive sight of elements doth fitly emblem that of opinions. Glanville's Stepsis. EMBLEMATICAL. Į EMBLEMATICK. adj. [from emblem.] 1. Comprising an enblem; allusive; occultly representative. In the well fram'd models, With emblematick skill and mystick order, should rise, Where gates should open, or where walls should compass. Prior. The poets contribute to the explication of reverses purely emblematical, or when the persons are allegorical. Addison. 2. Dealing in emblems; using emblems. By tongue and pudding to our friends explain What does your emblematick worship mean. Prior. EMBLEMATICALLY. adv. [from emblematical.] In the manner of emblems allusively; with occult representation. Others have spoken emblematically and hieroglyphically, as to the Egyptians; and the phonix was the hieroglyphick of the sun. Brown. He took a great stone, and put it under the oak, emblematically joining the two great elements of masonry. EMBLEMATIST. n. s. [from emblem.] A Swift. writer or inventer of emblems. EMB These fables are still maintained by symbolical writers, emblematists, and heralds." Brown. EMBOLISM. n. s. [εμβολισμός.] 1. Intercalation; insertion of days or years to produce regularity and equation of time. The civil constitutions of the year were after different manners in several nations; some using the sun's year, but in divers fashions; and some following the moon, finding out embolism, or equations, even to the addition of whole months, to make all as even as they could. Holder. 2. The time inserted; intercalatory time. EMBOLUS. n. s. [Coλos.] Any thing inserted and acting in another, as the sucker in a pump. Our members make a sort of an hydraulick engine, in which a chemical liquor, resembling blood, is driven through elastick channels by an embolus, like the heart. Arbuthuet. To EMBO ́SS. v. a. [from bosse, a protu. berance, French.] 1. To form with protuberances; to cover with something rising into lumps or 2. bunches. All croud in heaps, as at a night-alarm The bees drive out upon each other's backs, T'emboss their hives in clusters. Dryden. To engrave with relief, or rising work. Then o'er the lofty gate his art emboss'd Androgeo's death, and off'rings to his ghost. Dryden's Virgil. 3. [from emboister, French, to enclose in a box.] To enclose; to include; to cover. The knight his thrilliant spear again assay'd In his brass-plated body to emboss. Spenser. And in the way, as she did weep and wail, A knight her met, in mighty arms emboss'd. Fairy Queen. 4. [emboscare, Italian.] To enclose in a thicket. Like that self-begotten bird In th' Arabian woods embost. Milton's Agonistes. 5. To hunt hard. When a deer is hard run, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embost: a dog also, when he is strained with hard running, especially upon hard ground, will have his knees swelled, and then he is said to be embost, from basse, French, a tumour. Oh, he is more mad Hanmer. Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thes saly Was never so embost. Shaksp Sbaksp. We have almost embost him: you-shall see his EMBO'SSMENT. n. s. [from emboss.] fall to-night. Any thing standing out from the rest ; jut; eminence. I wish also in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents and alleys, enough for four to walk a-breast; which I would have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks or emboss ments. |