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How emphatically and divinely does every word proclaim the truth that I have been speaking of. South.

2. According to appearance.

What is delivered of the incurvity of dolphins, must be taken emphatically, not really, but in appearance, when they leap above water, and suddenly shoot down again. Brown. EMPHYSE ΜΑ. n. s. [εμφυσήμα.]

Emphysema is a light puffy humour, easily yielding to the pressure of the finger, arising again in the instant you take it off. Wiseman. EMPHYSE MATOUS. adj. [fromiuQvońμa.] Bloated; puffed up; swollen.

The signs of a gangrene are these: the inflammation loses its redness, and becomes duskish and livid; the tenseness of the skin goes off, and feels to the touch flabby or emphysematous; and vesications filled with ichor of different colours, spread all over it. To EMPIERCE. v. a. [from pierce.] To Sharp. pierce into; to enter into by violent appulse.

The weapon bright, Taking advantage of his open jaw,

Ran through his mouth with so importune might,

That deep empiere'd his darksome hollow maw. Spenser. EMPIGHT. preterit and part. from To pight, or pitch. [See PITCH.] Set; fixed; fastened.

But he was wary, and ere it empight In the meant mark, advanc'd his shield atween. EʼMPIRE. n. s. [empire, French; impeSpenser. rium, Latin.] 1. Imperial power; supreme dominion; sovereign command.

Assert, ye fair ones, who in judgment sit, Your ancient empire over love and wit. Rowe. 2. The region over which dominion is extended.

A nation extended over vast tracts of land, and numbers people, arrives in time at the ancient name of kingdom, or modern of empire.

Sextus Pompeius

Temple.

Hath given the dare to Casar, and commands The empire of the sea. Shaksp. 3. Command over any thing. EMPIRICK. n. s. [inπeigin. This word seems to have been pronounced empirick by Milton, and empirick by Dryden. Milton's pronunciation is to be preferred.] A trier; an experimenter; such persons as have no true education

in, or knowledge of, physical practice, but venture upon hearsay and observation only.

Quincy. The name of Hippocrates was more effectual to persuade such men as Galen, than to move a silly empirick. Hooker.

That every plant might receive a name, ac cording unto the diseases it cureth, was the wish of Paracelsus; a way more likely to multiply empiricks than herbalists. Brown.

Such an aversion and contempt for all manner of innovators, as physicians are apt to have for empiricks, or lawyers for pettifoggers. Swift. Th' illit'rate writer emp'rick-like applies To each disease unsafe chance remedies; The learn'd in school, whence science first began,

Studies with care th' anatomy of man. Dryden. EMPIRICAL.

EMPIRICK.

adj. [from the noun.]

1. Versed in experiments.

By fire Of sooty coal, the empyrick alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, . Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold. Milton. 2. Known only by experience; practised only by rote, without rational grounds. The most sovereign prescription in Galen is but empirick to this preservative. Shakspeare. In extremes, bold counsels are the best; Like empirick remedies, they last are try'd, And by th' event condemn'd or justify'd.

Dryden. EMPIRICALLY. adv. [from empirical.] 1. Experimentally; according to experi

ence.

We shall empirically and sensibly deduct the causes of blackness from originals by which we generally observe things denigrated. Brown. 2. Without rational ground; charlatanically; in the manner of quacks. EMPIRICISM. n. s. [from empirick.] Dependence on experience without knowledge or art; quackery. EMPLASTER. n. s. [šumλáolgov.] This word is now always pronounced, and generally written plaster.] An application to a sore of an oleaginous or viscous substance, spread upon cloth. See PLASTER.

All emplasters, applied to the breasts, ought to have a hole for the nipples. Wiseman's Surg. To EMPLASTER. v. a. [from the noun.] To cover with a plaster.

They must be cut out to the quick, and the Mortimer, sores emplastered with tar. EMPLA ́STICK. adj. [éμ¤háchC.]. Viscous; glutinous; fit to be applied as a plaster.

Resin, by its emplastick quality, mixed with oil of roses, perfects the concoction. Wiseman. Emplastick applications are not sufficient to defend a wound from the air.

Arbuthnot.

To EMPLEAD. V. a. [from plead.] To indict; to prefer a charge against; to

accuse.

To terrify and torture them, their tyrannous masters did often emplead, arrest, cast them into prison, and thereby consume them to worse than nothing. Hayward Antiquity thought thunder the immediate

vice of Jupiter, and empleaded them of impiety that referred it to natural casualties. Glang. Since none the living villains dare emplead, Arraign them in the persons of the dead.

Dryden EMPLOY. v. a. [emploier, French.] 1. To busy; to keep at work; to exercise. It is used both as agent, as, the hing employed the minister; or cause, as, the publick credit employed the minister. For thrice, at least, in compass of the year, Thy vineyard must employ the sturdy steer To turn the glebe. Dryden's Virgil. 2. In the following quotations it is used with in, about, to, and upon, before the object. To seems less proper.

Their principal learning was applied to the course of the stars, and the rest was employed in displaying the brave exploits of their princes. Temple. Our reason is often puzzled, because of the imperfection of the ideas it is employed about,

Locke.

The proper business of the understanding is not that which men always emyloy it to. Locke. Labour in the beginning gave a right of property, wherever any one was pleased to employ Itapon what was common. Locke.

Prior.

On the happy change the boy Employ'd his wonder and his joy. This is a day in which the thoughts of our countrymen ought to be employed on serious subjects. Addison's Freebolder.

3. To use as an instrument.

The cleanly cheese-press she could never

turn;

Her awkward fist did ne'er employ the churn.

4. To use as means.

Gay.

Lest animosities should obstruct the course of justice, if one of their own number had the distribution of it, they have always a foreigner for this employ. Addison on Italy. The honours and the burdens of great posts and employs were joined together. Atterbury. EMPLOYABLE. adj. [from employ.] Cápable to be used; proper for use.

The money was employed to the making of gallies. 2 Mac. Peace is not freed from labour, but from

noise;

And war more force, but not more pains employs. Dryden.

3. To use as materials.

The objections made against the doctrine of the chymists, seem employable against this hypothesis. Boyle. EMPLOYER. n. s. [from employ.] 1. One that uses or causes to be used.

Locke.

That man drives a great trade, and is owner or employer of much shipping, and continues and increases in trade and shipping. Child on Trade. 2. One that sets others to work. EMPLOYMENT. n. s. [from employ.] 1. Business; object of industry; object of labour.

The labour of those who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, must be charged on labour. 6. To commission; to intrust with the management of any affairs. Jonathan and Jahaziah were employed about

this matter.

Jesus Christ is furnished with superior powers Ezra. to the angels, because he is employed in superior works, and appointed to be the sovereign Lord of all the visible and invisible worlds. Watts. 7. To fill up with business.

If you're idle you're destroy'd;

All his force on you he tries,

Be but watchful and employ'd,

Soon the baffled tempter flies.

Motteux.

2. Business; the state of being employed. 3. Office; post of business.

If any station, any employment upon earth, be honourable, theirs was.

Atterbury. Leaders on each side, instead of intending the publick weal, have their hearts wholly set to get Swift. or to keep employments. 4. Business intrusted.

To study nature will thy time employ; Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy. Dryden.

8. To pass or spend in business.

Call not your stocks for me; I serve theking, On whose employment I was sent to you. Shaks. To EMPOISON. v. a. [empoisonner, Fr.] 1. To destroy by poison; to destroy by venomous food or drugs; to poison. Leaving no means unattempted of destroying his son, that wicked servant of his undertook to empoison him. Sidney. Mushrooms cause the incubus, or mare in the stomach, therefore the surfeit of them may suffocate and empoison. Bacon.

Why, whilst we struggle in this vale beneath, With want and sorrow, with disease and death, Do they more bless'd perpetual life employ In songs of pleasure, and in scenes of joy? Prior.

EMPLOY. n. s. [from the verb.] 1. Business; object of industry. Present to grasp, and future still to find, The whole employ of body and of mind. Pope. 2 Publick office,

2. To taint with poison; to envenom. This is the more usual sense. EMPO ISONER. n. s. [empoisonneur, Fr.] One who destroys another by poison. He is vehemently suspected to have been the empoisoner of his wife, thereby to make vacant Bacon's Henry VII. EMPO ISONMENT. n. s. [empoisonnement, French.] The practice of destroying by poison.

his bed.

It were dangerous for secret empoisonments.

Bacon.

EMPO RETICE. adj. [iumoghrinos.] That is used at markets, or in merchandize. EMPORIUM. n. s. [gor.] A place of merchandize; a mart; a town of trade; a commercial city.

And while this fam'd emporium we prepare, The British ocean shall such triumphs boast, That those who now disdain our trade to share, Shall rob like pirates on our wealthy coast.

Dryden I take the prosperous estate of this great em porium to be owing to those instances of charity. To EMPO’VERISH. v. a. [pauvre, Fr.] Atterbury. 1. To make poor; to depauperate; to reduce to indigence.

Since they might talk better as they lay toge ther, they impoverished their cloaths to enrich their bed, which, for that night, might well scorn the shrine of Venus. Sidney, Your's sounds aloud, and tells us you excel No lesa in courage than in singing well;

While, unconcern'd, you let your country
know,

They have empoverish'd themselves, not you.
Waller.

For sense of honour, if it empoverisheth a man,
it is, in his esteem, neither honour nor sense.
Fresh roses bring,

South.

To strow my bed, 'till the empoverish'd spring Confess her want. 2. To lessen fertility: as, tillage empoPrior. verishes land.

EMPO VERISHER. n. s. [from empoverish.]

. One that makes others poor. 2. That which impairs fertility.

They destroy the weeds and fit the land for aftercrops, being an improver, and not an empoverisher of land. Mortimer. EMPOVERISHMENT. z. s. [from empoverish.] Depauperation; cause of poverty; drain of wealth.

Being paid as it is, now some, and then some, it is no great burden unto her, nor any great emoverishment to her coffers. Spenser.

All appeals for justice, or appellations for favour or preferment to another country, are so many grievous empoverishments. To EMPOWER. v. a. [from power.] Swift. 1. To authorize; to commission; to give power or authority to any purpose. You are empowered, when you please, to give the final decision of wit. The government shall be empowered to grant Dryd. Juv. Ded. commissions to all protestants whatsoever.

Swift.

2. To give natural force; to enable.
Does not the same power that enables them
to heal, empower them to destroy? Baker.
EMPRESS... [contracted from emperess,
which is retained by Jonson in the fol-
lowing lines.]

1. The queen

of an emperour. Let your nimble feet

Tread subtile circles, that may always meet
In point to him; and figures, to express
The grace of him, and his great emperess.

2. A female invested with imperial dig-
Ben Jonson.
nity; a female sovereign.

Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve! Milton. Yet, London, empress of the northern clime, By an high fate thou greatly didst expire.

Dryden. Wisdom, thou say'st, from heav'n receiv'd her birth;

Her beams transmitted to the subject earth:
Yet this great empress of the human soul,
Does only with imagin'd power controul,
If restless passion, by rebellious sway,
Compels the weak usurper to obey.
EMPRISE. n. s. [emprise, French.] At-
tempt of danger; undertaking of ha-
zard; enterprize.

Prior.

Noble minds of yore, allied were,
In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise.
F. Qu.
A double conquest must you make,
If you atchieve renown by this emprise. Fairfax.
Fierce faces threat'ning wars;
Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise. Milt.
Thus, till the sun had travell'd half the skies,
Ambush'd we lie, and wait the bold emprise.

EMPTIER- 7.5. [from empty.] One that
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With hollow poverty and emptiness. 3. A void space; vacuity; vacuum.

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Nor could another in your room have been, Except an emptiness had come between. Dryden.

The ordinary air in which we live and respire, is of so thin a composition, that sixteen thousand one hundred and forty-nine parts of its dimensions are mere emptiness and nothing; and the remaining one only, material and real substance. Bentley.

4. Want of substance or solidity.

"Tis this which causes the graces and the loves to take up their habitations in the hardest marble, and to subsist in the emptiness of light and Dryden's Dufresnoy, Pref. 5. Unsatisfactoriness; "inability to fill up

6.

shadow.

the desires.

O frail estate of human things, Now to our cost your emptiness we know. Dryden.

Form the judgment about the worth or emptiness of things here, according as they are or are not of use, in relation to what is to come after. Vacuity of head; want of knowledge. Atterbury Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope. EMPTION. n. s. [emptio, Latin.] The act of purchasing; a purchase.

There is a dispute among the lawyers, whether Glaucus his exchanging his golden armour, with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation. Arbuthnot on Coins.

EMPTY. adj. [æmrig, Saxon.]
Void; having nothing in it; not full.

1.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, the empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Shakspeare. The pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Genesis.

If you have two vessels to fill, and you empty one to fill the other, you gain nothing by that; there still remains one vessel empty. Burnet. 2. Evacuated; no longer full.

Himself he frees by secret means unseen, His shackles empty left, himself escaped clean. Spenser.

3. Devoid; unfurnished.

Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress, That in civility thou seem'st so empty? Shaks. Mr. Boyle has shewed, that air may be rarified above ten thousand times in vessels of glass; and the heavens are much emptier of air than any vacuum we can make below. Netvten.

4. Unsatisfactory; unable to fill the mind or desires.

5.

Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise. Without any thing to carry; unburs Pope. dened; unfreighted.

They beat him, and sent him away empty

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When ye go, ye shall not go empty. Exrdus. He alledges that the satyrs carried platters full effrutin their hands; but if they had been empty banded, had they been ever the larger satyrs? Dryden's Juvenal, Dedication.

Yet all the little that I got I spent ; And still return'd as empty as I went. Dryden. 6. Hungry.

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop, she must not be full-gorg'd, For then she never looks upon her lure. Shaks. 1. Vacant of head; ignorant; unskilful; unfurnished with materials for thought. How comes it that so many worthy and wise men depend upon so many unworthy and empty headed fools!

Raleigh His answer is a handsome way of exposing an empty, trifling, pretending pedant; the wit lively, the satyr courtly and severe. Felton.

8. Untruitful; barren.

Seven empty cars blasted with the east wind.
Genesis.

Israel is an empty vine.

Hosea.

Wanting substance; wanting solidity; vain.

The god of sleep there hides his heavy head,
And empty dreams on every leaf are spread.
TEMPTY. v. a. [from the adjective.]
Dryden's Eneid.
To evacuate; to exhaust; to deprive
of that which was contained in it.

Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny: it has been
Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings. Shakspeare's Macb.
The emptiers have emptied them out, and mar-
red their vine branches.

Nabum. Sheep are often blind by fulness of blood: cut.. their tails, and empty them of their blood. Mortimer's Husbandry. The Euxine sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe, and the great navigable rivers that empty themselves into it. Arbuthnot. TEMPURPLE. v. a. [from purple.] To make of a purple colour; to discolour with purple.

Now in loose garlands, thick thrown off, the
bright

Pavement, that like a sea of Jasper shone,
Empurpled with celestial roses smil'd.
Milton.

The deep,

Emparp'd ran, with gushing gore distain'd.
To EMPUZZLE. v. a. [from puzzle.]
Philips.
To perplex; to put to a stand

breathing, and inability to lie on one side, which
is that which is sound."
Arbuthnot.

EMPY REAL. adj. [uvę.] Formed
of the element of fire; refined beyond
aerial; pertaining to the highest and
purest region of heaven. Tickel accents
it on the penult.
Now went forth the morn,
Such as in highest heav'n, array'd in gold
Empyreal.
Milton's Paradise Lost.
Go, soar with Plato to th' empyreal sphere,
To the first good, first perfect, and first fair.

Pope.

Tickel.

But empyreal forms, howe'er in fight
Gash'd and dismember'd, easily unite.
EMPYRE ́AN. n. s. [iμzugos.] The highest
heaven, where the pure element of fire
is supposed to subsist.

Almighty Father from above,
From the pure empyrean, where he sits
High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye.

Under his burning wheel

Milton.

The stedfast empyrean shook throughout,

All but the throne itself of God.
The empyrean rung

Milton.

With hallelujahs. Milton's Paradise Lost. EMPYRE UMA. burning of any matEMPYREUM. n. s. [čμñúgevμa.] The ter in boiling or distillation, which gives a particular offensive smell.

Quincy. It is so far from admitting an empyreum, that it burns clear away without leaving any cinders or adust about it. Harvey The hopes of an elixir insensibly evaporate, and vanish to air, or leave in the recipient a foul empyreuma. Decay of Piety. EMPYREUMATICAL. adj. [from empyreuma.] Having the smell or taste of burnt substances.

Empyreumatical oils, distilled by strong fires in retorts, may be brought to emulate essential oils drawn in limbicks. Boyle.

EMPYRO ́SIS. n. s. [μugów.] Conflagration; general fire.

The former opinion that held these cataclisms and empyroses universal, was such as held that it put a total consummation unto things in this lower world, especially that of conflagration.

Hale.

To E'MULATE. v. a, [æmulor, Latin.] 1. To rival; to propose as one to be equalled or excelled.

2. To imitate with hope of equality, or superiour excellence."

It hath empuzzled the enquiries of others to apprehend, and enforced them unto strange conceptions to make out. ΕΜΡΥΕΜΑ. n. 5. [εμπύημα.] A collecBrown. tion of purulent matter in any part whatsoever; generally used to signify that in the cavity of the breast only, and which sometimes happens upon the opening of abscesses, or ulcerations of the lungs, breast. or membranes inclosing the An empyema, or a collection of purulent mattet in the breast, if not suddenly cured, doth undoubtedly impel the patient into a phthisical consumption. There is likewise a consumption from an emHarvey. Pema, after an inflammation of the lungs; which may be known from a weight upon the diaphragm, oppression of the lungs, a difficulty of

Quincy.

3.

I would have

Him emulate you: 'tis no shame to follow
The better precedent. Ben Jonson's Catiline.
Those fair ideas to my aid I'll call,
And emulate my great original.

Dryden.

What though no weeping loves thy ashes

grace,

Pope.

Nor polish'd marble emulate thy face.
To be equal to; to rise to equality

with.

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EMULATION. n. s. [emulatio, Latin.] 1. Rivalry; desire of superiority.

Mine emulation

Hath not that honour in't it had; for where I thought to crush him in an equal force, True sword to sword, I'll pitch at him some way, Or wrath or craft may get him. Shaksp. There was neither envy nor emulation among them. 1 Maccabees. Aristotle allows that some emulation may be good, and may be found in some good men; yet envy he utterly condemns, as wicked in itself, and only to be found in wicked minds. Spratt.

The apostle exhorts the Corinthians to an holy and general emulation of the charity of the Macedonians, in contributing freely to the relief of the poor saints at Jerusalem. South.

A noble emulation heats your breast, And your own fame now robs you of your rest: Good actions still must be maintain'd with good, As bodies nourish'd with resembling food. Dryd. 2. Envy; desire of depressing another; contest; contention; discord.

Shaks.

What madness rules in brainsick men, When for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such factious emulations shall arise! EMULATIVE. adj. [from emulate.] Inclined to emulation; rivalling; disposed to competition. EMULATOR. n. s. [from emulate.] rival; a competitor.

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In superiours it quencheth jealousy, and layeth their competitors and emulators asleep. Bacon. To EMU LE. v. a. [emulor, Latin.] To emulate. Not in use.

He sitting me beside, in that same shade, Provoked me to play some pleasant fit; Yet emuling my pipe, he took in hand My pipe, before that emuled of many, And plaid thereon; for well that skill he could. Spenser.

To EMULGE. V. a. [emulgeo, Latin.] To milk out.

EMULGENT. adj. [emulgens, Latin.] 1. Milking or draining out.

2. Emulgent vessels [in anatomy] are the two large arteries and veins which arise, the former from the descending trunk of the aorta, or great artery; the latter from the vena cava. They are both inserted into the kidneys; the emulgent arteries carrying blood with the serum to them, and the emulgent veins bringing it back again, after the serum has been separated therefrom by the kidHarris.

neys.

It doth furnish the left emulgent with one vein.

Brown.

Through the emulgent branches the blood is Brought to the kidneys, and is there freed of its Cheyne.

serum.

E'MULOUS. adj. [æmulus, Latin.] 1. Rivalling; engaged in competition. What the Gaul or Moor could not effect, Nor emulous Carthage, with their length of spite, Shall be the work of one. Ben Jonson. She is in perpetual diffidence, or actual enHowel's Vocal Forest. 2. Desirous of superiority; desirous to rise above another; desirous of any excellence possessed by another: with of before the object of emulation.

mity with her, but always emulous and suspectful

of her.

By strength

They measure all, of other excellence
Not emulaus, nor care who them excels. Mil.
By fair rewards our noble youth we raise
To emulous merit, and to thirst of praise. Prior.
Good Howard, emulous of the Grecian art.
Prior.

3. Factious; contentious.

Whose glorious deeds,.but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions, 'mongst the gods themselves,

And drave great Mars to faction. Shaksp. E'MULOUSLY. adv. [from emulous.] With desire of excelling or outdoing another. So tempt they him, and emulously vie To bribe a voice, that empires would not buy. Granville. EMULSION. n. s. [emulsio, Latin.] A form of medicine, by bruising oily seeds and kernels, and drawing out their substances with some liquor, that thereby becomes milky. Quincy.

The aliment is dissolved by an operation resembling that of making an emulsion; in which operation the oily parts of nuts and seeds, being gently ground in a marble mortar, and gradually mixed with some watery liquor, or dissolved into a sweet, thick, turbid, milky liquor, re sembling the chyle in an animal body. Arbuthnot. EMU NCTORIES. n. s. [emunctorium, Lat.] Those parts of the body where any thing excrementitious is separated and collected, to be in readiness for ejectQuincy. Superfluous matter deflows from the body under their proper emunctories.

ment.

Brown.

There are receptacles in the body of man, and emunctories to drain them of superfluous choler. More against Atheism. Discoursing of the lungs, I shew that they are the grand emunctory of the body; that the main end of respiration is continually to discharge and expel an excrementitious fluid out of the mass of blood. Woodward's Nat. Hist.

The regimen in quincies, which proceed from an obstruction of the glands, must be to use such warm liquors as relax those glands, such as, by stimulating, open the emunctories to secern the humour. Arbuthnot.

EN. An inseparable particle borrowed by us from the French, and by the French formed from the Latin in. Many words are uncertainly written with en or in. In many words en is changed into em for more easy pronunciation. To ENABLE. .a. [from able.] To make able; to empower; to supply with strength or ability.

If thou would'st vouchsafe to overspread Me with the shadow of thy gentle wing, I should enabled be thy acts to sing. Spenser His great friendship with God might enable him, and his compassion might incline him. Atterbury.

He points out to him the way of life, strengthens his weakness, restores his lapses, and enables

To ENACT. v. a. [from act.] him to walk and persevere in it. Rogers.

1. To act; to perform; to effect. Not

now in use.

In true balancing of justice, it is flat wrong to punish the thought or purpose of any before it be enacted. Spencer

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