bracing. EMBRASURE, êm-brâ-zàre'. s. An aperture in the wall, battlement.

To EMBROCATE, êm'brò-kåte. v. a. To rub any diseased part with medicinal liquors. EMBROCATIÓN, êm-brò-kå'shan. s. The act of rubbing any part diseased with medicinal liquors; the lotion with which any diseased part is washed.

To EMBROIDER, êm-broè'dår. v. a. To border with ornaments, to decorate with figured work. EMBROIDERER, êm-broè'dår-år. s. One that|| adorns clothes with needle-work. EMBROIDERY, êm-broé'dar-è. s. Figures raised upon a ground, variegated needle-work; variegation, diversity of colours.

To EMBROIL, êm-bröll. v. a. To disturb, to confuse, to distract.

To EMBROTHEL, êm-brôтí'ẻl. v. a. To enclose
in a brothel.
EMBRYO, êm'bré-d.
EMBRYON,

embrè-ôn.

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8. The offspring yet unfinished in the womb; the state of any thing| yet not fit for production, yet unfinished. EMENDABLE, è-men'dâ-bl. a. Capable of emendation, corrigible.

EMENDATION, êm-ên-da'shůn. s. 530. Correction, alteration of any thing from worse to better; an alteration made in the text by verbal criticism.

EMENDATOR, êm-ên-då'tôr. s. 521. A corrector, an improver.

EMERALD, êm'è-râld. s. A green precious

stone.

To EMERGE, è-mêrje'. v. n. To rise out of any thing in which it is covered; to rise, to mount from a state of oppression or obscurity. EMERGENCE, e-mer jense. EMERGENCY, è-mer jen-se.

s. The act of rising out of any fluid by which it is covered; the act of rising into view; any sudden occasion, unexpected casualty; pressing necessity. EMERGENT, è-mêr jênt. a. Rising out of that which overwhelms and obscures it; rising into view or notice; proceeding or issuing from any thing; sudden, unexpectedly casual. EMERITED, è-mér'it-êd. a. Allowed to have done sufficient publick service. Mason. EMEROIDS, êm'èr-oldz. s. Painful swellings of the hemorrhoidal veins, piles, properly Hemorrhoids.

EMERSION, è-mer'shån. s. The time when a star, having been obscured by its too near ap proach to the sun, appears again. ̧ EMERY, êm'êr-è. s. Emery is an iron ore. It is prepared by grinding in mills. It is useful in cleaning and polishing steel. EMETICAL, -mét ́è-kal. EMETICK, é-mět ́îk.

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lity of provoking vomits. EMÉTICK, è-metik. s. A medicine that produces vomiting.

EMETICALLY, è-mêt'è-kâl-ẻ. ad. In such a manner as to provoke to vomit. EMICATION, êm-è-kå ́shûn. s. 550. Sparkling, flying off in small particles. EMICTION, è-mik'shan. s. Urine. EMIGRANT, èm'è-grant. s. One that emigrates. Mason.

To EMIGRATE, êm'mè-gråte. v. n. To remove from one place to another. EMIGRATION, êm-è-grå'shan. s. 530. Change of habitation." EMINENCE, èm'è-nênse. EMINENCE,

s. Loftiness,

EMISSARY, êm7s-sâr-rè. s. One sent out on private messages, a spy, a secret agent; one that emits or sends out. EMISSION, è-mish'ån. s. The act of sending

out, vent.

To EMIT, è-mit'. v. a. To send forth; to let fly to dart; to issue out juridically. EMMENAGOGUES, èm-mén'a-gôgs. s. A me dicine to promote the menstrual discharge. EMMET, èm'mit. s. 99. An ant, a pismire. To EMMEW, èm-mů'. v. a. To mew or coop up. EMOLLIENT, è-mol'yênt. a. 113. Softening, suppling

EMOLLIENTS, è-môl'yênts. s. Such things as sheathe and soften the asperities of the humours, and relax and supple the solids. EMOLLITION, êm-môl-lish'ôn. 6. The act of softening.

EMOLUMENT, è-môl'ù-ment. s. Profit, advantage. EMOTION, è-mo'shån. s. Disturbance of mind. vehemence of passion.

To EMPALE, êm-påle'. v. a. To fence with a pale; to fortify; to enclose, to shut in; to put to death by thrusting through with a stake fixed upright.

EMPANNEL, êm-pân'nel. s. The writing or en tering the names of a jury into a schedule by the sheriff, which he has summoned to appear.

To EMPANNEL, êm-pân'nèl. v. a. To summon to serve on a jury.

To EMPASSION, êm-pâsh'ân. v. a. To move with passion, to affect strongly.

To EMPEOPLE, êm-pè'pl. v. a. To form nto a people or community,

EMPERESS, êm'per-ès. s. A woman in-sted with imperial power; the queen of an emptor. EMPEROR, êm'pèr-år. s. 166. A monarch of title and dignity superiour to a king. EMPERY, em pêr-è. s. 503. Empire, sovereig command. A word out of use.

EMPHASIS, m'fa-sis. s. A remarkable stress laid upon a word or sentence. EMPHATICAL, êm-fâtik-âl EMPHATICK, ¿m-fât'îk. strong, striking.

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EMPHATICALLY, êm-fåt ́è-kål-è. ad. Strong. ly, forcibly, in a striking manner.

To EMPIERCE, êm-pèrse'. v. a. 277. To pierce into, to enter into by violent appulse.-See PIERCE.

EMPIRE, m'pire. s. 140. Imperial power, su preme dominion; the region over which dominion is extended; command over any thing. I have differed from Mr. Sheridan and Buchanan in the pronunciation of the last syllable of this word, as I think the long sound of i is more agreeable to the ear, as well as to the best usage, though I confess not so analogical as the short i. Dr. Kenrick, Scott, W. Johnston and Perry, pronounce the i long, as I have done.See UMPIRE.

EMPIRICK, êm'pè-rîk, or êm-pir ́îk. s. A trier or experimenter, such persons as venture upon observation only; a quack.

Dr. Johnson tells us, the first accentuation is adopted by Dryden, and the last by Milton; and this he prefers. There is indeed a strong analogy for the last, as the word ends in ic, 509; but this analogy is sometimes violated in favour of the substantives, as in Lunatic, Heretic, &c.; and that this is the case in the word in question, may be gathered from the majority of votes m its favour: for though Dr. Johnson, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Nares, and W. Johnston, are for the latter; Dr. Kenrick, Dr. Ash, Mr. Scott, Mr Perry, Buchanan, Entick, Bailey, and Barclay, are for the former. This word classes too with those that almost always adopt the antepenulti

EMPIRICK, m-pirik.

a. Versed in

experiments, practised only by rote. EMPIRICALLY, êm-pir'è-kál-è. ad. Experimentally, without rational grounds; in the manner of a quack.

EMPIRICISM, êm-pir'è-sizm. s. Dependence on experience without knowledge or art, quack

ery.

EMPLASTER, êm-plås'tår. s. An application to a sore of an oleaginous or viscous substance spread upon cloth.

To EMPLASTER, êm-plås'tår. v. a. To cover with a plaster. EMPLASTICK, êm-plâs'tik. a.

nous.

To EMPLEAD, m-plède'. v. a. prefer a charge against. To EMPLOY, Em-plôè'.

Viscous, gluti

To indict, to

v. a. To busy, to keep at work, to exercise; to use as an instrument, to commission, to intrust with the management of any affairs; to fill up with business or to spend in business.

EMPLOY, êm-ploè'. s. Business, object of industry; publick office.

EMPLOYABLE, êm-plòè ́â-bl. a. Capable to be used, proper for use.

EMPLOYER, êm-ploè'år. s. One that uses, or causes to be used.

EMPLOYMENT, êm-ploè'ment. s. Business, object of industry; the state of being employed, office, post of business.

To EMPOISON, em-poè'zn. v. a. To destroy by poison, to destroy by venomous food or drugs; to envenom.

EMPOISONER, êm-pỏè'zn-år. s. One who destroys another by poison. EMPOISONMENT, êm-poè'zn-mẻnt. practice of destroying by poison.

s. The

To EMPUZZLE, êm-půz'zl. v. a. To perplex to put to a stand.

EMPYEMA, êm-pi-è'mâ. s. 92. A collection of purulent matter in any part whatsoever, generally used to signify that in the cavity of the breast only.

I have differed from Mr. Sheridan in the sound of the y in the second syllable of this word, merely from the disagreeable effect it bas on the ear, to pronounce two vowels of exactly the same sound in immediate succession. This sameness is, in some measure, avoided, by giving y the long diphthongal sound of i; and the same reason has induced me to the same notation in the word Empyrean. If good usage is against me, I submit.

EMPYREAL, êm-pir'è-ål. a. Formed of fire, refined beyond aerial. EMPYREAN, 4m-pi-rè'ân, or êm-pîr'è-ân. s. The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire is supposed to subsist.-See EMPYEMA.

This word has the accent on the penultimate syllable in Sheridan, Kenrick, Barclay, Nares, and Bailey; and on the antepenultimate in Ash, Buchanan, Perry, and Entick: and this last accentuation is, in my opinion, the most correct; for as the penultimate is short, there is the same reason for placing the accent on the antepenultimate as in Cerulean; though Poets, with their usual license, generally accent the penultimate-See EUROPEAN. EVPYREUM, êm-pir rẻ âm. EMPYREUMA, êm-pè-rù'må. Š of any matter in boiling. EMPYREUMATICAL, êm-pè-rd-mât'è-kâl. Having the smell or taste of burnt substances. EMPYROSIS, êm-pè-rò'sis. s. 520. Conflagration, general fire.

s. The burning

a.

To EMULATE, êm'ů-låte. v. a. To rival; to imitate with hope of equality, or superiour ex cellence; to be equal to; to rise to equality with

markets, or in merchandize.

EMPORIUM, Am-po'rè-ům. s. A place of chandize, a commercial city. To EMPOVERISH, êm-pov'èr-ish. v. a. make poor; to lessen fertility.

of superiority; contest.

To

This word, before Dr. Johnson's Dictionary was published, was always written impoverish; nor since he has reformed the orthography do we find any considerable difference in the sound of the first syllable, except in solemn speaking; in this case we must undoubtedly preserve the in its true sound.-See EMBALM. EMPOVERISHER, êm-pôv'èr-ish-dr. S. One that makes others poor; that which impairs fertility.

EMPOVERISHMENT, êm-pôv'êr-ish-ment.
Diminution, waste.

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To EMPOWER, êm-pôå ́år. v. a. To authorize, to commission; to enable.

166, 521. A rival,

To milk out.
Milking or drain-

To EMULGE, è-môlje'. v. a. EMULGENT, è-mål jent. a. ing out. EMULOUS, 3m'd-lås. a. 314. Rivalling, engag ed in competition desirous of superiority, desirous to rise above another, desirous of any excellence possessed by another.

EMULOUSLY, ém ́ú-lås-lé. ad. With desire of excelling or outdoing another.

EMULSION, è-mål'shẩn. s. A form of medicine, by bruising oily seeds and kernels. EMUNCTORIES, è-månk'tår-iz. 8. 557, 99. Those parts of the body where any thing excrementitious is separated and collected.

ENABLE, èn-a'bì. v. a. 405. To make able, to confer power.

To ENACT, ên-åkt'. v. a. To establish, to de cree; to represent by action.

The same observations hold good in words beginning with en as in those with em.--See EMBALM and ENCOMIUM.

ENACTOR, An-âk tur. s. 166. One that forms decrees, or establishes laws; one who practises or performs any thing.

ENALLAGE, en-âl lâ-jè. s. A figure in grammar, whereby there is a change either of a pronoun, as when a possessive is put for a relative, or when one mood or tense of a verb is put for another.

To ENAMBUSH, ên-âm'båsh. v. a. To hide in ambush, to hide with hostile intention. To ENAMEL, én-âm'èl. v. a. 99. To inlay, to variegate with colours. To ENAMEL, en-âm'èl. v. n.

ENAMELLER, ên-âm'êl-lår. s. One that practises the art of enamelling.

To ENAMOUR, ên-âm'ûr. v. a. 314. To inflame with love; to make fond. ENARRATION, ễn-når-rà'shûn. s. Explanation. ENARTHROSIS, ên-år-thrò'sis. 520. The insertion of one bone into another to form a joint. ENATATION, è-nâ-tà'shån. s. The act of swim

ming out.

To ENCAGE, ên-kåje'. v. a. To shut up as in a cage; to coop up to confine.

To ENCAMP, én-kamp'. v, n. To pitch tents,

to sit down for a time in a march.

To ENCAMP, ên-kâmp'. v. a. To form an army into a regular camp.

ENCAMPMENT, ên-kâmp'ment. s. The act of encamping or pitching tents; a camp, tents pitched in order.

To ENCAVE, ên-kåve'. v. a. To hide as in a cave. To ENCHAFE, ên-tshåfe'. v. a. To enrage, to irritate, to provoke.

To ENCHAIN, ên-tshåne'. v. a. To fasten with a chain, to hold in chains, to bind.

To ENCHANT, ên-tshaut'. v. a. 79. To subdue by charms or spells; to delight in a high degree. ENCHANTER, ên-tshâi'tur. s. 98. A magician,

a sorcerer.

ENCHANTINGLY, en-tshån'ting-lè. ad. With the force of enchantment.

ENCHANTMENT, ên-tshant'ment. s. Magical charms, spells, incantation; irresistible intluence, overpowering delight.

ENCHANTRESS, en-tshan'três. s. A sorceress,

a woman versed in magical arts; a woman whose beauty or excellencies give irresistible influence.

To ENCHASE, ên-tshåse'. v. a. To infix, to enclose in any other body so as to be held fast, but not concealed.

To ENCIRCLE, ên-sèr'kl. v. a. To surround, to environ, to enclose in a ring or circle. ENCIRCLET, en-serk let. s. A circle, a ring. ENCLITICAL, én-klit'è-kål. a. Relating to

encliticks.

throw back the accent upon the last syllable of the foregoing word.

To ENCLOSE, ên-klòze'. v. a. To part from things or grounds common by a fence; to environ, to encircle, to surround.

ENCLOSER, ên-kló ́zår. S. One that encloses or separates common fields into several distinct properties; any thing in which another is enclosed.

ENCLOSURE, ên-klo'zhůre. s. The act of enclosing or environing any thing; the separation of common grounds into distinct possessions ;| the appropriation of things common; state of being shut up in any place; the space enclosed.

ENCOMIAST, ên-ko'mè-âst. s. A panegyrist, a praiser.

ENCOMIASTICAL, ĉn-ko-mè-ås'tè-kål.
ENCOMIASTICK, én-kò-mè-ás tik.

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Panegyrical, containing praise, bestowing praise. ENCOMIUM, ên-ko'mè-ům. S. Panegyrick, praise, eulogy.

Though in cursory speaking we frequently| hear the e confounded with the short i in the first syllable of encamp, enchant, &c. without any great offence to the ear, yet such an interchange in encomium, encomiast, &c. is not only a departure from propriety, but from politeness; and it is not a little surprising that Mr. Sheridan should have adopted it. The truth is, preserving the e pure in all words of this form, whether in rapid or deliberate speaking, is a correctness well worthy of attention.

to encircle; to go round any place. ENCOMPASSMENT, ên-kåm'pås ment. s. Cir. cumlocution, remote tendency of talk. ENCORE, ông-kore'. ad. Again, once more,

This word is perfectly French, and, as usual, we have adopted it with the original pro nunciation. In other words which we have received from the French, where the nasal vowel has occurred, we have substituted an awkward pronunciation in imitation of it, which has at once shown our fondness for foreign modes of speaking, and our incapacity of acquiring them: thus Caisson has been turned into Cussoon, Ballon into Balloon, Dragon into Dragoon, and Chamont (a character in the Orphan) into Shamoon; but in the word before us, this nasal sound is followed by e hard, which after n always involves hard g, 408; and this is precisely an English sound. An Englishman, therefore, does not find the difficulty in pronouncing the nasal sound in this word, which he would in another that does not admit of the succeeding hard e org; as entendement, attentif, &c.; for if in pronouncing the en in these words the tongue should once touch the roof of the mouth, the French nasal sound would be ruined. No wonder then that a mere English speaker should pronounce this French word so well, and the rest of the nasal vowels so ill. It does not arise from the habit they contract at Theatres, (where it would be the most barbarous and ill-bred pronunciation in the world to call for the repetition of an English song in plain English.) It does not, I say, arise from custom, but from coincidence. The sound, in the word before us, is common to both nations; and though the French may give it a somewhat lighter sound than the English, they are both radically the same. Adopting this word, however, in the Theatre, does the English no manner of credit. Every language ought to be sufficient for all its purposes. A foreigner who understood our language, but who had never been present at our dramatick performances, would suppose we had no equivalents in English, should he hear us cry out Encore, Bravo, and Bravissimo, when we only wish to have a song repeated, or to applaud the agility of a dancer.

ENCOUNTER, én-köûn'tår. s. 313. Duel, single fight, conflict; battle, fight in which enemies rush against each other; sudden meeting; casual incident.

To ENCOUNTER, ên-köån'tår. v. a. To meet face to face; to meet in a hostile manner, to rush against in conflict; to attract; to oppose; to meet by accident.

To ENCOUNTER, ¿n-kðûn'tår. v. n. To rush together in a hostile manner, to conflict; to engage, to fight; to meet face to face; to come together by chance.

ENCOUNTERER, én-kôôn'tår-år. s. Opponent, antagonist, enemy; one that loves to accost others.

To ENCOURAGE, ên-kår'ridje. v. a. 90. To ani. mate, to incite to any thing; to give courage to, to support the spirits, to embolden; to raise confidence.

ENCOURAGEMENT, ên-kår'rldje-ment. s. Incitement to any action or practice, incentive; favour, countenance, support.

ENCOURAGER, ên-kår'ridje-år. s. 314. One that supplies incitements to any thing, a fa

vourer.

To ENCROACH, ên-krotsh'. v. n. 295. To make invasions upon the right of another; to advance gradually and by stealth upon that to whicn one has no right.

ENCROACHER, en-krotsh'år. s. One who seizes the possession of another by gradual and silent means; one who makes slow and gradual ad vances beyond his rights,