Emptier (compar.) of Empty.
Emptiness (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
Emptiness (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
Emptiness (n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.
Emption (n.) The act of buying.
Emptional (a.) Capable of being purchased.
Empty (superl.) Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
Empty (superl.) Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.
Empty (superl.) Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
Empty (superl.) Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.
Empty (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
Empty (superl.) Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
Empty (superl.) Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.
Empty (superl.) Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
Empties (pl. ) of Empty
Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."
Emptied (imp. & p. p.) of Empty
Emptying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Empty
Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
Empty (v. i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
Empty (v. i.) To become empty.
Emptying (n.) The act of making empty.
Emptying (n.) The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast.
Empugn (v. t.) See Impugn.
Empurpled (imp. & p. p.) of Empurple
Empurpling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Empurple
Empurple (v. t.) To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.
Empuse (n.) A phantom or specter.
Empuzzle (v. t.) To puzzle.
Empyema (n.) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura.
Empyesis (n.) An eruption of pustules.
Empyreal (a.) Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aerial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.
Empyreal (n.) Empyrean.
Empyrean (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
Empyrean (a.) Empyreal.
Empyreuma (n.) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.
Empyreumatic (a.) Alt. of Empyreumatical
Empyreumatical (a.) Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor.
Empyreumatize (v. t.) To render empyreumatic.
Empyrical (a.) Containing the combustible principle of coal.
Empyrosis (n.) A general fire; a conflagration.
Emrods (n. pl.) See Emerods.
Emu (n.) A large Australian bird, of two species (Dromaius Novae-Hollandiae and D. irroratus), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly.
Emulable (a.) Capable of being emulated.
Emulate (a.) Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
Emulated (imp. & p. p.) of Emulate
Emulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emulate
Emulate (v. t.) To strive to equal or to excel in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or to outdo, to vie with; to rival; as, to emulate the good and the great.
Emulation (n.) The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.
Emulation (n.) Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
Emulative (a.) Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.
Emulatively (adv.) In an emulative manner; with emulation.
Emulator (n.) One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.
Emulatory (a.) Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.
Emulatress (n.) A female emulator.
Emule (v. t.) To emulate.
Emulge (v. t.) To milk out; to drain.
Emulgent (a.) Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.
Emulgent (n.) An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.
Emulgent (n.) A medicine that excites the flow of bile.
Emulous (a.) Ambitiously desirous to equal or even to excel another; eager to emulate or vie with another; desirous of like excellence with another; -- with of; as, emulous of another's example or virtues.
Emulous (a.) Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.
Emulously (adv.) In an emulous manner.
Emulousness (n.) The quality of being emulous.
Emulsic (a.) Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.
Emulsify (v. t.) To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.
Emulsin (n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
Emulsin (n.) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.
Emulsion (n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.
Emulsive (a.) Softening; milklike.
Emulsive (a.) Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.
Emulsive (a.) Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.
Emunctories (pl. ) of Emunctory
Emunctory (n.) Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.
Emuscation (n.) A freeing from moss.
Emu wren () A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.
Emyds (pl. ) of Emyd
Emyd// (pl. ) of Emyd
Emyd (n.) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.
Emydea (n. pl.) A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.
En- () A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.
En- () A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.
-en () A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, such as children and brethren, it has been added to older plural forms.
-en () A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen.
-en () A suffix signifying to make, to cause, used to form verbs from nouns and adjectives; as in strengthen, quicken, frighten. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.
-en () An adjectival suffix, meaning made of; as in golden, leaden, wooden.
-en () The termination of the past participle of many strong verbs; as, in broken, gotten, trodden.
En (n.) Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em.
Enabled (imp. & p. p.) of Enable
Enabling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enable
Enable (v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Enable (v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
Enablement (n.) The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
Enacted (imp. & p. p.) of Enact
Enacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enact
Enact (v. t.) To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
Enact (v. t.) To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
Enact (v. t.) To act the part of; to represent; to play.
Enact (n.) Purpose; determination.
Enactive (a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.