SG Heritage Dictionary

Emu [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A large fowl of S. America, with wings unfit for flight.

2. This name properly belongs to the Cassowary, but has been erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the Rhea or S. American ostrich.

Emu [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Emu wren Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

Emulable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being emulated.

Emulate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ambitious. [Little used.]

Emulate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To strive to equal or excel, in qualities or actions; to imitate, with a view to equal or excel; to vie with; to rival. Learn early to emulate the good and the great. emulate the virtues and shun the vices of distinguished men.

2. To be equal to.

3. Thy eye would emulate the diamond.

4. To imitate; to resemble. [Unusual.]

5. Convulsion emulating the motion of laughter.

Emulate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.

Emulate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Emulated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rivaled; imitated.

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

of Emulate

Emulating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rivaling; attempting to equal or excel; imitating; resembling.

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

of Emulate

Emulation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of attempting to equal or excel in qualities or actions; rivalry; desire of superiority, attended with effort to attain to it; generally in a good sense, or an attempt to equal or excel others in that which is praise-worthy, without the desire of depressing others. Romans 11:14 . In a bad sense, a striving to equal or do more than others to obtain carnal favors or honors. Val.5.

2. An ardor kindled by the praise-worthy examples of others, inciting to imitate them, or to equal or excel them.

3. A noble emulation heats your breast.

4. Contest; contention; strife; competition; rivalry accompanied with a desire of depressing another.

5. Such factious emulations shall arise.

Emulation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.

2. Jea/ous rivalry; envy; envious contention.

Emulative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Inclined to emulation; rivaling; disposed to competition.

Emulative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort.

Emulatively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an emulative manner; with emulation.

Emulator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who emulates; a rival; a competitor.

Emulator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

Emulatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry.

Emulatress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A female who emulates another.

Emulatress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A female emulator.

Emule [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To emulate. [Not used.]

Emule [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To emulate.

Emulge [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To milk out; to drain.

Emulgent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Milking or draining out. In anatomy, the emulgent or renal arteries are those which supply the kidneys with blood, being sometimes single, sometimes double. The emulgent veins return the blood, after the urine is secreted. This the ancients considered as a milking or straining of the serum whence the name.

Emulgent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An emulgent vessel.

Emulgent [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins.

Emulgent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.

2. A medicine that excites the flow of bile.

Emulous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Desirous or eager to imitate, equal or excel another; desirous of like excellence with another; with of; as emulous of another's example or virtues.

2. Rivaling; engaged in competition; as emulous Carthage.

3. Factious; contentious.

Emulous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. Vying with; rivaling; hence, contentious, envious.

Emulously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With desire of equaling or excelling another.

Emulously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In an emulous manner.

Emulousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being emulous.

Emulsic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.

Emulsify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.