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Duumvir
  • (n.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions.

    Dwarf
  • (n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind
  • (v. i.) To become small
  • (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size

    Dwell
  • (v. i.) To abide
  • (v. t.) To inhabit.

    Dwelt
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Dwell.

    Dwindle
  • (n.) The process of dwindling
  • (v. i.) To diminish
  • (v. t.) To break

    Dyad
  • (a.) Having a valence or combining power of two
  • (n.) An element, atom, or radical having a valence or combining power of two.

    Dye
  • (n.) Color produced by dyeing.
  • (v. t.) To stain

    Dyer
  • (n.) One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.

    Dyestuff
  • (n.) A material used for dyeing.

    Dyewood
  • (n.) Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

    Dying
  • (a.) In the act of dying
  • (n.) The act of expiring

    Dynamics
  • (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics)

    Dynamism
  • (n.) The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

    Dynamite
  • (n.) An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc

    Dynamo
  • (n.) A dynamo-electric machine.

    Dynast
  • (n.) A dynasty

    Dyne
  • (n.) The unit of force, in the C. G. S. (Centimeter Gram Second) system of physical units

    Dyscrasia
  • (n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution

    Dysentery
  • (n.) A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood

    Dysmenorrhea
  • (n.) Difficult and painful menstruation.

    Dyspeptic
  • (n.) A person afflicted with dyspepsia.

    Dysphoria
  • (n.) Impatience under affliction

    Dysprosium
  • (n.) An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy

    Dystocia
  • (n.) Difficult delivery pr parturition.

    Each
  • (a. / a. pron.) Every

    Eager
  • (a.) Brittle

    Eagle
  • (n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

    Eagre
  • (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river

    Ealdorman
  • (n.) An alderman.

    Ear
  • (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard
  • (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing
  • (v. t.) To plow or till

    Earache
  • (n.) Ache or pain in the ear.

    Eardrop
  • (n.) A pendant for the ear

    Eardrum
  • (n.) The tympanum.

    Eared
  • (a.) Having (such or so many) ears

    Earing
  • (n.) A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

    Earl
  • (n.) A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany

    Earmark
  • (n.) A mark for identification
  • (v. t.) To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

    Earn
  • (v. i.) To curdle, as milk.
  • (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance
  • (v. t. & i.) To grieve.

    Earring
  • (n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant

    Earshot
  • (n.) Reach of the ear

    Earth
  • (n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself
  • (v. i.) To burrow.
  • (v. t.) To cover with earth or mold

    Earwig
  • (n.) Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.
  • (v. t.) To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.

    Ease
  • (n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles

    Easily
  • (adv.) Readily

    East
  • (a.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel
  • (adv.) Eastward.
  • (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States
  • (v. i.) To move toward the east

    Eatable
  • (a.) Capable of being eaten
  • (n.) Something fit to be eaten.

    Eaten
  • (p. p.) of Eat

    Eater
  • (n.) One who, or that which, eats.

    Eating
  • (n.) Something fit to be eaten

    Eaves
  • (n. pl.) Brow

    Ebb
  • (a.) Receding
  • (n.) The European bunting.
  • (v. i.) To flow back
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow back.

    Ebon
  • (a.) Consisting of ebony.
  • (n.) Ebony.

    Ebracteate
  • (a.) Without bracts.

    Ebullient
  • (a.) Boiling up or over

    Ebullition
  • (n.) A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid

    Eburnation
  • (n.) A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory

    Eccentric
  • (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws
  • (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius

    Ecchymosis
  • (n.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion

    Ecclesia
  • (n.) A church, either as a body or as a building.

    Ecclesiology
  • (n.) The science or theory of church building and decoration.

    Ecdysis
  • (n.) The act of shedding, or casting off, an outer cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc

    Echelon
  • (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing
  • (v. i.) To take position in echelon.
  • (v. t.) To place in echelon

    Echidna
  • (n.) A genus of Monotremata found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. They are toothless and covered with spines

    Echinoderm
  • (n.) One of the Echinodermata.

    Echinoid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Echinoidea.
  • (n.) One of the Echinoidea.

    Echinus
  • (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe.

    Echo
  • (n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice
  • (v. i.) To give an echo
  • (v. t.) To repeat with assent

    Eclampsia
  • (n.) A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy

    Eclectic
  • (a.) Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected
  • (n.) One who follows an eclectic method.

    Eclipse
  • (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it
  • (v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.
  • (v. t.) To cause the obscuration of

    Ecliptic
  • (a.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator

    Eclogue
  • (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other

    Economical
  • (a.) Managed with frugality

    Economics
  • (n.) Political economy

    Economist
  • (n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality

    Economize
  • (v. i.) To be prudently sparing in expenditure
  • (v. t.) To manage with economy

    Economy
  • (n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption

    Ecru
  • (a.) Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

    Ecstasy
  • (n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power
  • (v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

    Ecstatic
  • (n.) An enthusiast.

    Ectasia
  • (n.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

    Ectoderm
  • (n.) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast

    Ectomere
  • (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals

    Ectoparasite
  • (n.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals

    Ectopia
  • (n.) A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial

    Ectopic
  • (a.) Out of place

    Ectoplasm
  • (n.) The ectosarc of protozoan.

    Ecumenical
  • (a.) General

    Eczema
  • (n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts

    Edacious
  • (a.) Given to eating

    Edda
  • (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes

    Eddy
  • (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
  • (v. i.) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy
  • (v. t.) To collect as into an eddy.

    Edelweiss
  • (n.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps

    Eden
  • (n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt

    Edge
  • (v. i.) To move sideways
  • (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border

    Edging
  • (n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden

    Edgy
  • (a.) Easily irritated

    Edh
  • (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth

    Edible
  • (a.) Fit to be eaten as food
  • (n.) Anything edible.

    Edict
  • (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power

    Edification
  • (n.) A building or edifice.

    Edifice
  • (n.) A building

    Edify
  • (v. i.) To build

    Edit
  • (v. t.) To superintend the publication of

    Edomite
  • (n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob

    Educable
  • (a.) Capable of being educated.

    Educate
  • (v. t.) To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child

    Education
  • (n.) The act or process of educating

    Educative
  • (a.) Tending to educate

    Educator
  • (n.) One who educates

    Educe
  • (v. t.) To bring or draw out

    Educt
  • (n.) That which is educed, as by analysis.

    Edulcorate
  • (v. t.) To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing

    Eel
  • (n.) An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla

    Eelgrass
  • (n.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast

    Eelpout
  • (n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young

    Efface
  • (v. t.) To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc

    Effect
  • (n.) Consequence intended
  • (v. t.) To bring to pass

    Effeminate
  • (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.
  • (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
  • (v. t.) To make womanish

    Effendi
  • (n.) Master

    Efferent
  • (a.) Conveyed outward
  • (n.) An efferent duct or stream.

    Effervesce
  • (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition

    Effete
  • (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth

    Efficacious
  • (n.) Possessing the quality of being effective

    Efficacy
  • (n.) Power to produce effects

    Efficiency
  • (n.) The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects

    Efficient
  • (n.) An efficient cause

    Effigy
  • (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part

    Effloresce
  • (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source

    Effluence
  • (n.) A flowing out, or emanation.

    Effluent
  • (a.) Flowing out
  • (n.) A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

    Effluvium
  • (a.) Subtile or invisible emanation

    Efflux
  • (n.) That which flows out
  • (v. i.) To run out

    Effort
  • (n.) A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
  • (v. t.) To stimulate.

    Effrontery
  • (n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum

    Effulgence
  • (n.) The state of being effulgent

    Effuse
  • (a.) Disposed to pour out freely
  • (n.) Effusion
  • (v. i.) To emanate
  • (v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely

    Effusion
  • (n.) That which is poured out, literally or figuratively.

    Effusive
  • (a.) Pouring out

    Eft
  • (adv.) Again
  • (n.) A European lizard of the genus Seps.

    Egad
  • (interj.) An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.

    Egest
  • (v. t.) To cast or throw out

    Egg
  • (n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.
  • (v. t.) To urge on

    Eggar
  • (n.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa

    Egger
  • (n.) One who gathers eggs
  • (v. t.) One who eggs or incites.

    Eggnog
  • (n.) A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

    Eggplant
  • (n.) A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg

    Eggshell
  • (n.) A smooth, white, marine, gastropod shell of the genus Ovulum, resembling an egg in form.

    Eglantine
  • (n.) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors

    Ego
  • (n.) The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought

    Egoism
  • (n.) Excessive love and thought of self

    Egoist
  • (n.) A believer in egoism.

    Egotism
  • (n.) The practice of too frequently using the word I

    Egotist
  • (n.) One addicted to egotism

    Egregious
  • (a.) Surpassing

    Egress
  • (n.) The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave
  • (v. i.) To go out

    Egret
  • (n.) A kind of ape.

    Egyptian
  • (a.) Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa.
  • (n.) A gypsy.

    Egyptology
  • (n.) The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.

    Eh
  • (interj.) An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.

    Eider
  • (n.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria, esp. Somateria mollissima, which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest with fine down (taken from its own body) which is an article of commerce

    Eidolon
  • (n.) An image or representation

    Eight
  • (a.) Seven and one
  • (n.) An island in a river

    Eisteddfod
  • (n.) Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards

    Either
  • (a. & pron.) Each of two
  • (conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative

    Ejaculate
  • (v. i.) To utter ejaculations
  • (v. t.) To throw out, as an exclamation

    Ejaculation
  • (n.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.

    Ejaculatory
  • (a.) Casting or throwing out

    Eject
  • (v. t.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself

    Elaborate
  • (a.) Wrought with labor
  • (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking

    Elamite
  • (n.) A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia

    Eland
  • (n.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts

    Elapse
  • (v. i.) To slip or glide away

    Elasmobranch
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii.
  • (n.) One of the Elasmobranchii.

    Elastic
  • (a.) Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed
  • (n.) An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber

    Elastin
  • (n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue

    Elate
  • (a.) Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope
  • (v. t.) To exalt the spirit of

    Elation
  • (n.) A lifting up by success

    Elbow
  • (n.) Any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like
  • (v. i.) To jut into an angle
  • (v. t.) To push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.

    Elder
  • (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments
  • (n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries

    Eldest
  • (a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.

    Eleatic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason
  • (n.) A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

    Elecampane
  • (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic

    Elect
  • (a.) Chosen
  • (n.) One chosen or set apart.
  • (v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.

    Eleemosynary
  • (a.) Given in charity or alms
  • (n.) One who subsists on charity

    Elegant
  • (a.) Exercising a nice choice

    Elegiac
  • (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs
  • (n.) Elegiac verse.

    Elegist
  • (n.) A write of elegies.

    Elegit
  • (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired

    Elegize
  • (v. t.) To lament in an elegy

    Elegy
  • (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem

    Element
  • (n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered
  • (v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.

    Elemi
  • (n.) A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium

    Elephant
  • (n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known

    Elevate
  • (a.) Elevated
  • (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher

    Elevation
  • (n.) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon

    Elevator
  • (n.) A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

    Eleven
  • (a.) Ten and one added
  • (n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.

    Elf
  • (n.) An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy
  • (v. t.) To entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.

    Elfin
  • (a.) Relating to elves.
  • (n.) A little elf or urchin.

    Elfish
  • (a.) Of or relating to the elves

    Elflock
  • (n.) Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.

    Elicit
  • (a.) Elicited
  • (v. t.) To draw out or entice forth

    Elide
  • (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces

    Eligible
  • (a.) That may be selected

    Eliminate
  • (v. t.) To cause to disappear from an equation

    Elite
  • (n.) A choice or select body

    Elixir
  • (n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold

    Elizabethan
  • (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign
  • (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.

    Elk
  • (n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose

    Ell
  • (n.) A measure for cloth

    Ellipse
  • (n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides

    Ellipsis
  • (n.) An ellipse.

    Ellipsoid
  • (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles.

    Elliptical
  • (a.) Having a part omitted

    Ellipticity
  • (n.) Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere

    Elm
  • (n.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America

    Elohim
  • (n.) One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

    Elongate
  • (a.) Drawn out at length
  • (v. i.) To depart to, or be at, a distance

    Elongation
  • (n.) Removal to a distance

    Elope
  • (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty

    Eloquent
  • (a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power

    Else
  • (a. & pron.) Other
  • (adv. & conj.) Besides

    Elucidate
  • (v. t.) To make clear or manifest

    Elude
  • (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity

    Elul
  • (n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September

    Elusion
  • (n.) Act of eluding

    Elusive
  • (a.) Tending to elude

    Elusory
  • (a.) Tending to elude or deceive

    Elute
  • (v. t.) To wash out.

    Elutriate
  • (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify

    Elver
  • (n.) A young eel

    Elvish
  • (a.) Mysterious

    Elysian
  • (a.) Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death

    Elysium
  • (n.) A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death

    Em
  • (n.) The portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page

    Emaciate
  • (a.) Emaciated.
  • (v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean
  • (v. t.) To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean

    Emanate
  • (a.) Issuing forth
  • (v. i.) To issue forth from a source

    Emanation
  • (n.) That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source

    Emancipate
  • (a.) Set at liberty.
  • (v. t.) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence

    Emancipation
  • (n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence

    Emarginate
  • (v. t.) To take away the margin of.

    Emasculate
  • (a.) Deprived of virility or vigor
  • (v. t.) To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit

    Embalm
  • (v. t.) To anoint all over with balm

    Embank
  • (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend

    Embargo
  • (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions
  • (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain

    Embark
  • (v. i.) To engage in any affair.
  • (v. t.) To cause to go on board a vessel or boat

    Embarrass
  • (v. t.) Embarrassment.

    Embassy
  • (n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys

    Embattle
  • (v. i.) To be arrayed for battle.
  • (v. t.) To arrange in order of battle

    Embayment
  • (n.) A bay.

    Embed
  • (v. t.) To lay as in a bed

    Embellish
  • (v. t.) To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments

    Ember
  • (a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons
  • (n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes

    Embezzle
  • (v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care

    Embitter
  • (v. t.) To make bitter or sad.

    Emblaze
  • (v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.

    Emblazon
  • (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors

    Emblem
  • (n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation
  • (v. t.) To represent by an emblem

    Embodiment
  • (n.) That which embodies or is embodied

    Embody
  • (v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection
  • (v. t.) To form into a body

    Embolden
  • (v. t.) To give boldness or courage to

    Embolic
  • (a.) Embolismic.

    Embolism
  • (n.) Intercalated time.

    Embolus
  • (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current

    Embonpoint
  • (n.) Plumpness of person

    Embosom
  • (v. t.) To inclose or surround

    Emboss
  • (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest
  • (v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances

    Embouchure
  • (n.) The mouth of a river

    Embowel
  • (v. t.) To disembowel.

    Embower
  • (v. i.) To lodge or rest in a bower.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a bower

    Embrace
  • (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms
  • (v. i.) To join in an embrace.
  • (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.

    Embranchment
  • (n.) The branching forth, as of trees.

    Embrangle
  • (v. t.) To confuse

    Embrasure
  • (n.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged

    Embrocate
  • (v. t.) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc

    Embrocation
  • (n.) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.

    Embroider
  • (v. t.) To ornament with needlework

    Embroil
  • (v. t.) To implicate in confusion

    Embrown
  • (v. t.) To give a brown color to

    Embryo
  • (a.) Pertaining to an embryo
  • (n.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

    Emend
  • (v. t.) To purge of faults

    Emerald
  • (a.) Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.
  • (n.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers.

    Emerge
  • (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid

    Emeritus
  • (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services
  • (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

    Emersed
  • (a.) Standing out of, or rising above, water.

    Emersion
  • (n.) The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything

    Emery
  • (n.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances

    Emesis
  • (n.) A vomiting.

    Emetic
  • (a.) Inducing to vomit
  • (n.) A medicine which causes vomiting.

    Emetine
  • (n.) A white crystalline bitter alkaloid extracted from ipecacuanha root, and regarded as its peculiar emetic principle

    Emigrant
  • (n.) One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
  • (v. i.) Pertaining to an emigrant

    Emigrate
  • (a.) Migratory
  • (v. i.) To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence

    Emigration
  • (n.) A body emigrants

    Eminence
  • (n.) An elevated condition among men

    Eminency
  • (n.) State of being eminent

    Eminent
  • (a.) Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue

    Emissary
  • (a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
  • (n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers

    Emission
  • (n.) That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time

    Emissivity
  • (n.) Tendency to emission

    Emit
  • (v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree


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