Small coals of fire with ashes; the residuum of wood, coal or other combustibles not extinguished; cinders. NWAD EMBERS.2
He rakes hot embers, and renews the fires. NWAD EMBERS.3
It is used by Colebrooke in the singular. NWAD EMBERS.4
He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. NWAD EMBERS.5
1. To appropriate fraudulently to one’s own use what is entrusted to one’s care and management. It differs from stealing and robbery in this, that the latter imply a wrongful taking of another’s goods, but embezzlement denotes the wrongful appropriation and use of what came into possession by right. It is not uncommon for men entrusted with public money to embezzle it. NWAD EMBEZZLE.2
2. To waste; to dissipate in extravagance. NWAD EMBEZZLE.3
When thou hast embezzled all thy store. NWAD EMBEZZLE.4
1. The thing appropriated. NWAD EMBEZZLEMENT.2
1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. NWAD EMBLAZE.2
No weeping orphan saw his father’s stores NWAD EMBLAZE.3
Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. NWAD EMBLAZE.4
2. To blazon; to paint or adorn with figures armorial. NWAD EMBLAZE.5
The imperial ensign, streaming to the wind, NWAD EMBLAZE.6
With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. NWAD EMBLAZE.7
1. To adorn with figures of heraldry or ensigns armorial. NWAD EMBLAZON.2
2. To deck in glaring colors; to display pompously. NWAD EMBLAZON.3
We find Augustus--emblazoned by the poets. NWAD EMBLAZON.4
1. One that publishes and displays with pomp. NWAD EMBLAZONER.2
1. Properly, inlay; inlayed or mosaic work; something inserted in the body of another. NWAD EMBLEM.2
2. A picture representing one thing to the eye, and another to the understanding; a painted enigma, or a figure representing some obvious history, instructing us in some moral truth. Such is the image of Scaevola holding his hand in the fire, with these words,”agere et pati fortiter Romanum est.” to do and to suffer with fortitude is Roman. NWAD EMBLEM.3
3. A painting or representation, intended to hold forth some moral or political instruction; an allusive picture; a typical designation. A balance is an emblem of justice; a crown is the emblem of royalty; a scepter, of power or sovereignty. NWAD EMBLEM.4
4. That which represents another thing in its predominant qualities. A white robe in scripture is an emblem of purity or righteousness; baptism, of purification. NWAD EMBLEM.5
1. Representing by some allusion or customary connection; as, a crown is emblematic of royalty, a crown being worn by kings. NWAD EMBLEMATIC.2
2. Representing by similar qualities; as, whiteness is emblematic of purity. NWAD EMBLEMATIC.3
3. Using emblems; as emblematic worship. NWAD EMBLEMATIC.4
The produce or fruits of land sown or planted. This word is used for the produce of land sown or planted by a tenant for life or years, whose estate is determined suddenly after the land is sown or planted and before harvest. In this case the tenant’s executors shall have the emblements. Emblements comprehend not only corn, but the produce of any annual plant. But the produce of grass and perennial plants belongs to the lord, or proprietor of the land. NWAD EMBLEMENT.2
1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity. The Greeks made use of the lunar year of 354 days, and to adjust it to the solar year of 365, they added a lunar month every second or third year, which additional month they called embolimaeus. NWAD EMBOLISM.2
2. Intercalated time. NWAD EMBOLISM.3
The embolismal months are either natural or civil. NWAD EMBOLISMAL.2
Twelve lunations form a common year; and thirteen, the embolismic year. NWAD EMBOLISMIC.2
1. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances. NWAD EMBOSS.2
2. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog’s knees swell. NWAD EMBOSS.3
1. Relief; figures in relievo; raised work. NWAD EMBOSSMENT.2
1. To take out the internal parts. NWAD EMBOWEL.2
Fossils and minerals that the emboweled earth NWAD EMBOWEL.3
Displays. NWAD EMBOWEL.4
2. To sink or inclose in another substance. NWAD EMBOWEL.5
1. To take, clasp or inclose in the arms; to press to the bosom, in token of affection. NWAD EMBRACE.2
Paul called to him the disciples and embraced them. Acts 20:1. NWAD EMBRACE.3
2. To seize eagerly; to lay hold on; to receive or take with willingness that which is offered; as, to embrace the christian religion; to embrace the opportunity of doing a favor. NWAD EMBRACE.4
3. To comprehend; to include or take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. NWAD EMBRACE.5
4. To comprise; to inclose; to encompass; to contain; to encircle. NWAD EMBRACE.6
Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, NWAD EMBRACE.7
Between the mountain and the stream embraced. NWAD EMBRACE.8
5. To receive; to admit. NWAD EMBRACE.9
6. To find; to take; to accept. NWAD EMBRACE.10
Fleance--must embrace the fate NWAD EMBRACE.11
Of that dark hour. NWAD EMBRACE.12
7. To have carnal intercourse with. NWAD EMBRACE.13
8. To put on. NWAD EMBRACE.14
9. To attempt to influence a jury corruptly. NWAD EMBRACE.15
1. Reception of one thing into another. NWAD EMBRACE.18
2. Sexual intercourse; conjugal endearment. NWAD EMBRACE.19
1. Influenced corruptly; biassed; as a juror. NWAD EMBRACED.2
1. Hostile hug; grapple. [Little used.] NWAD EMBRACEMENT.2
2. Comprehension; state of being contained; inclosure. [Little used.] NWAD EMBRACEMENT.3
3. Conjugal endearment; sexual commerce. NWAD EMBRACEMENT.4
4. Willing acceptance. [Little used.] NWAD EMBRACEMENT.5
1. One who attempts to influence a jury corruptly. NWAD EMBRACER.2
1. Attempting to influence a jury corruptly. NWAD EMBRACING.2
1. An opening in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged. NWAD EMBRASURE.2
2. In architecture, the enlargement of the aperture of a door or window, on the inside of the wall, for giving greater play for the opening of the door or casement, or for admitting more light. NWAD EMBRASURE.3
1. To inspire with bravery; to make bold. NWAD EMBRAVE.2
In surgery and medicine, to moisten and rub a diseased part of the body, with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or spunge. NWAD EMBROCATE.2
1. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed or washed. NWAD EMBROCATION.2
Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine line. Exodus 28:39. NWAD EMBROIDER.2
1. Variegation or diversity of figures and colors; as the natural embroidery of meadows. NWAD EMBROIDERY.2
1. To perplex or entangle; to intermix in confusion. NWAD EMBROIL.2
The christian antiquities at Rome--are embroiled with fable and legend. NWAD EMBROIL.3
2. To involve in troubles or perplexities; to disturb or distract by connection with something else; to throw into confusion or commotion; to perplex. NWAD EMBROIL.4
The royal house embroiled in civil war. NWAD EMBROIL.5
In physiology, the first rudiments of an animal in the womb, before the several members are distinctly formed; after which it is called a fetus. NWAD EMBRYO.2
1. The rudiments of a plant. NWAD EMBRYO.3
2. The beginning or first state of any thing not fit for production; the rudiments of any thing yet imperfectly formed. NWAD EMBRYO.4
The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo. NWAD EMBRYO.5
A cutting or forcible separation of the fetus in utero. NWAD EMBRYOTOMY.2
1. An alteration for the better; correction of an error or fault. NWAD EMENDATION.2
The last edition of the book contains many emendations. NWAD EMENDATION.3
The subspecies of emerald are the precious emerald and the beryl. NWAD EMERALD.2
1. To rise out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding substance; as, to emerge from the water or from the ocean. NWAD EMERGE.2
That is--emerging from the deep. NWAD EMERGE.3
We say, a planet emerges from the sun’s light; a star emerging from chaos. It is opposed to immerge. NWAD EMERGE.4
2. To issue; to proceed from. NWAD EMERGE.5
3. To reappear, after being eclipsed; to leave the sphere of the obscuring object. NWAD EMERGE.6
The sun is said to emerge, when the moon ceases to obscure its light; the satellites of Jupiter emerge, when they appear beyond the limb of the planet. NWAD EMERGE.7
4. To rise out of a state of depression or obscurity; to rise into view; as, to emerge from poverty or obscurity; to emerge from the gloom of despondency. NWAD EMERGE.8
1. The act of rising or starting into view; the act of issuing from or quitting. NWAD EMERGENCE.2
The white color of all refracted light, at its first emergence--is compounded of various colors. NWAD EMERGENCE.3
2. That which comes suddenly; a sudden occasion; an unexpected event. NWAD EMERGENCE.4
Most of our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. NWAD EMERGENCE.5
In case of emergency, [or in an emergency] he would employ the whole wealth of his empire. NWAD EMERGENCE.6
The mountains huge appear emergent. NWAD EMERGENT.2
1. Issuing or proceeding from. NWAD EMERGENT.3
2. Rising out of a depressed state or from obscurity. NWAD EMERGENT.4
3. Coming suddenly; sudden; casual; unexpected; hence, calling for immediate action or remedy; urgent; pressing; as an emergent occasion. NWAD EMERGENT.5
Hemorrhoids; piles; a dilatation of the veins about the rectum, with a discharge of blood. NWAD EMERODS.2
The Lord will smite thee--with the emerods. Deuteronomy 28:27. NWAD EMERODS.3
1. The act of rising out of a fluid or other covering or surrounding substance; opposed to immersion. NWAD EMERSION.2
2. In astronomy, the reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse, as the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; also, the time of reappearance. NWAD EMERSION.3
3. The reappearance of a star, which has been hid by the effulgence of the sun’s light. NWAD EMERSION.4
4. Extrication. NWAD EMERSION.5
A sparkling; a flying off in small particles, as from heated iron or fermenting liquors. NWAD EMICATION.2
To quit one country, state or region and settle in another; to remove from one country or state to another for the purpose of residence. Germans, Swiss, Irish and Scotch, emigrate, in great numbers, to America. Inhabitants of New England emigrate to the Western States. NWAD EMIGRATE.2
The removal of persons from house to house in the same town, state or kingdom is not called emigration, but simple removal. NWAD EMIGRATION.2
1. Elevation, highth, in a literal sense; but usually, a rising ground; a hill of moderate elevation above the adjacent ground. NWAD EMINENCE.2
The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. NWAD EMINENCE.3
2. Summit; highest part. NWAD EMINENCE.4
3. A part rising or projecting beyond the rest, or above the surface. We speak of eminences on any plain or smooth surface. NWAD EMINENCE.5
4. An elevated situation among men; a place or station above men in general, either in rank, office or celebrity. Merit may place a man on an eminence, and make him conspicuous. Eminence is always exposed to envy. NWAD EMINENCE.6
5. Exaltation; high rank; distinction; celebrity; fame; preferment; conspicuousness. NWAD EMINENCE.7
Office, rank and great talents give eminence to men in society. NWAD EMINENCE.8
Where men cannot arrive at eminence, religion may make compensation, by teaching content. NWAD EMINENCE.9
6. Supreme degree. NWAD EMINENCE.10
7. Notice; distinction. NWAD EMINENCE.11
8. A title of honor given to cardinals and others. NWAD EMINENCE.12