Emption Emp"tion noun [ Latin emptio , from emere to buy.] The act of buying. [ R.] Arbuthnot.

Emptional Emp"tion·al adjective Capable of being purchased.

Empty Emp"ty adjective [ Compar. Emptier ; superl. Emptiest .] [ Anglo-Saxon emtig , æmtig , æmetig , from æmta , æmetta , quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain origin; confer German emsig busy.] 1. 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.

2. Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of . "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton.

I shall find you empty of that fault.

Shak.

3. Having nothing to carry; unburdened. "An empty messenger." Shak.

When ye go ye shall not go empty .

Ex. iii. 21.

4. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.

Words are but empty thanks.

Cibber.

5. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.

Pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise.

Pope.

6. Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.

Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind.

Gen. xli. 27.

7. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.

That in civility thou seem'st so empty .

Shak.

8. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.

» Empty is used as the first element in a compound; as, empty -handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; empty -headed, having few ideas; empty -hearted, destitute of feeling.

Syn. -- See Vacant .

Empty Emp"ty noun ; plural Empties An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties ."

Empty Emp"ty transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Emptied ; present participle & verbal noun Emptying .] 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.

The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.

Eccl. xi. 3.

Empty Emp"ty intransitive verb 1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.

2. To become empty. "The chapel empties ." B. Jonson.

Emptying Emp"ty·ing noun 1. The act of making empty. Shak.

2. plural The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [ U.S.]

Empugn Em·pugn" transitive verb [ Obs .] See Impugn .

Empurple Em·pur"ple transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Empurpled ; present participle & verbal noun Empurpling .] [ Prefix em- + purple . Confer Impurple .] To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.

Empuse Em·puse" noun [ Late Latin empusa , Greek ....] A phantom or specter. [ Obsolete] Jer. Taylor.

Empuzzle Em·puz"zle transitive verb [ Prefix em- + puzzle .] To puzzle. [ Archaic] Sir T. Browne.

Empyema Em`py·e"ma noun [ New Latin , from Greek ..., from ... to suppurate; ... in + ... pus.] (Medicine) A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.

» The term empyema is now restricted to a collection of pus in the cavity of the pleura.

Empyesis Em`py·e"sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... suppuration.] (Medicine) An eruption of pustules.

Empyreal Em·pyr"e·al adjective [ Latin empyrius , empyreus , fiery, Greek ..., ..., in fire, fiery; ... in + ... fire. See In , and Fire .] Formed of pure fire or light; refined beyond aërial substance; pertaining to the highest and purest region of heaven.

Go, soar with Plato to the empyreal sphere.

Pope.

Empyreal air , oxygen gas.

Empyreal Em·pyr"e·al noun Empyrean. Mrs. Browning.

Empyrean Em`py·re"an noun [ See Empyreal .] The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.

The empyrean rung
With hallelujahs.

Milton.

Empyrean Em`py·re"an adjective Empyreal. Akenside.

Empyreuma Em`py·reu"ma noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... a live coal covered with ashes, from ... to set on fire, from ...: confer French empyreume . See Empyreal .] (Chemistry) The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

Empyreumatic, Empyreumatical Em`py·reu·mat"ic, Em`py·reu·mat"ic·al adjective [ Confer French empyreumatique .] Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor.

Empyreumatic oils , oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.

Empyreumatize Em`py·reu"ma·tize transitive verb To render empyreumatic. [ R.]

Empyrical Em·pyr"ic·al adjective [ Greek ... in fire. See Empyreal .] Containing the combustible principle of coal. Kirwan.

Empyrosis Em"py·ro"sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ...; ... in + ... to burn.] A general fire; a conflagration. [ Obsolete] Sir M. Hale.

Emrods Em"rods noun plural See Emerods . [ Obsolete]

Emu E"mu noun [ Confer Portuguese ema ostrich, French émou , émeu , emu.] (Zoology) A large Australian bird, of two species ( Dromaius Novæ-Hollandiæ and D. irroratus ), related to the cassowary and the ostrich. The emu runs swiftly, but is unable to fly. [ Written also emeu and emew .]

» The name is sometimes erroneously applied, by the Brazilians, to the rhea, or South American ostrich.

Emu wren . See in the Vocabulary.

Emu wren E"mu wren` (Zoology) A small wrenlike Australian bird ( Stipiturus malachurus ), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

Emulable Em"u·la·ble adjective [ Latin aemulari to emulate + -able .] Capable of being emulated. [ R.]

Some imitable and emulable good.

Abp. Leighton.

Emulate Em"u·late adjective [ Latin aemulatus , past participle of aemulari , from aemulus emulous; probably akin to English imitate .] Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous. [ Obsolete] "A most emulate pride." Shak.

Emulate Em"u·late transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Emulated ; present participle & verbal noun Emulating .] 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.

Thine eye would emulate the diamond.

Shak.

Emulation Em`u·la"tion noun [ Latin aemulatio : confer French émulation .] 1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry.

A noble emulation heats your breast.

Dryden.

2. Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.

Such factious emulations shall arise.

Shak.

Syn. -- Competition; rivalry; contest; contention; strife. -- Emulation , Competition , Rivalry . Competition is the struggle of two or more persons for the same object. Emulation is an ardent desire for superiority, arising from competition, but now implying, of necessity, any improper feeling. Rivalry is a personal contest, and, almost of course, has a selfish object and gives rise to envy. " Competition and emulation have honor for their basis; rivalry is but a desire for selfish gratification. Competition and emulation animate to effort; rivalry usually produces hatred. Competition and emulation seek to merit success; rivalry is contented with obtaining it." Crabb.

Emulative Em"u·la·tive adjective Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling; as, an emulative person or effort. " Emulative zeal." Hoole.

Emulatively Em"u·la·tive·ly adverb In an emulative manner; with emulation.

Emulator Em"u·la`tor noun [ Latin aemulator .] One who emulates, or strives to equal or surpass.

As Virgil rivaled Homer, Milton was the emulator of both.

Bp. Warburton.

Emulatory Em"u·la·to·ry adjective Pertaining to emulation; connected with rivalry. [ R.] " Emulatory officiousness." Bp. Hall.

Emulatress Em"u·la`tress noun A female emulator. [ R.]

Emule Em"ule transitive verb [ French émuler . See Emulate .] To emulate. [ Obsolete] " Emuled of many." Spenser.

Emulge E·mulge" transitive verb [ Latin emulgere , emulsum ; e out + mulgere to milk; akin to English milk . See Milk .] To milk out; to drain. [ Obsolete] Bailey.

Emulgent E·mul"gent adjective [ Latin emulgens , present participle of emulgere to milk out: confer French émulgent . So called because regarded by the ancients as straining out the serum, as if by milking, and so producing the urine.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the kidneys; renal; as, emulgent arteries and veins. -- noun An emulgent vessel, as a renal artery or vein.

Emulgent E·mul"gent noun (Medicine) A medicine that excites the flow of bile. [ Obsolete] Hoblyn.

Emulous Em"u·lous adjective [ Latin aemulus . See Emulate .] 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. " Emulous Carthage." B. Jonson.

Emulous missions 'mongst the gods.

Shak.

Emulously Em"u·lous·ly adverb In an emulous manner.

Emulousness Em"u·lous·ness noun The quality of being emulous.

Emulsic E·mul"sic adjective Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid. Hoblyn.

Emulsify E·mul"si·fy transitive verb [ Emuls ion + -fy .] 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 E·mul"sin noun [ See Emulsion , Emulge .] (Chemistry) (a) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [ R.] (b) An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

Emulsion E·mul"sion noun [ From Latin emulgere , emulsum : confer French émulsion . See Emulge .] 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 E·mul"sive adjective [ Confer French émulsif .] 1. Softening; milklike.

2. Yielding oil by expression; as, emulsive seeds.

3. Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids.

Emunctory E·munc"to·ry noun ; plural Emunctories . [ Latin emunctorium a pair of snuffers, from emungere , emunctum , to blow the nose, hence, to wipe, cleanse; e out + mungere to blow the nose: confer French émonctoire , formerly spelled also émonctoire .] (Physiol.) Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

Emuscation Em`us·ca"tion noun [ Latin emuscare to clear from moss; e out + muscus moss.] A freeing from moss. [ Obsolete]

Emyd E"myd noun ; plural English Emyds , English Emyd...... . [ See Emydea .] (Zoology) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidæ .

Emydea E·myd"e·a noun plural [ New Latin , from Emys a genus of tortoises, Latin emys a kind of fresh- water tortoise, Greek ....] (Zoology) A group of chelonians which comprises many species of fresh-water tortoises and terrapins.

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