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Em [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. 'EM , A contraction of them.

2. They took 'em.

Em [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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; the square of the body of a type.

Em- Webster's Dictionary 1913

A prefix. See En-.

Emacerate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To make lean. [Not in use.]

Emacerate [Verb transitive and intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.

Emaceration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Emaciation.

Emaciate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Thin; wasted.

Emaciate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lose flesh gradually; to become lean by pining with sorrow, or by loss of appetite or other cause; to waste away, as flesh; to decay in flesh.

Emaciate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to lose flesh gradually; to waste the flesh and reduce to leanness.

2. Sorrow, anxiety, want of appetite, and disease, often emaciate the most robust bodies.

Emaciate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Emaciated.

Emaciate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.

Emaciate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.

Emaciated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Reduced to leanness by a gradual loss of flesh; thin; lean.

Emaciated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Emaciating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Wasting the flesh gradually; making lean.

Emaciating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Emaciation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of making lean or thin in flesh; or a becoming lean by a gradual waste of flesh.

2. The state of being reduced to leanness.

Emaciation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of making very lean.

2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

Emaculate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To take spots from. [Little used.]

Emaculate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection.

Emaculation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act or operation of freeing from spots. [Little used.]

Emaculation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of clearing from spots.

Emanant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Issuing or flowing from.

Emanant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

Emanate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. [Latin emanano; e and mano, to flow.

2. To issue from a source; to flow from; applied to fluids; as, light emanates from the sun; perspirable matter, from animal bodies.

3. To proceed from a source of fountain; as, the powers of government in republics emanate from the people.

Emanate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Issuing forth; emanant.

Emanate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

Emanated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Emanating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Issuing or flowing from a fountain.

Emanating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Emanation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain-head or origin.

2. That which issues, flows or proceeds from any source, substance or body; efflux; effluvium. Light is an emanation from the sun; wisdom, from God; the authority of laws, from the supreme power.

Emanation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.

Emanative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Issuing from another.

Emanative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Issuing forth; effluent.

Emanatively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By an emanation.

Emanatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Emanative; of the nature of an emanation.

Emanciipate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Set at liberty.

Emancipate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To set free from servitude or slavery, by the voluntary act of the proprietor; to liberate; to restore from bondage to freedom; as, to emancipate a slave.

2. To set free or restore to liberty; in a general sense.

3. To free from bondage or restraint of any kind; to liberate from subjection, controlling power or influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.

4. In ancient Rome, to set a son free from subjection to his father, and give him the capacity of managing his affairs, as if he was of age.

Emancipate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Set at liberty.

Emancipate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.

2. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.