Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-MANE, v.i. [L. emano.]

To issue or flow from. Enfield. But this is not an elegant word. [See Emanate.]

E-MAR'GIN-ATE, or E-MAR'GIN-A-TED, a. [Fr. marge; L. margo, whence emargino.]

1. In botany, notched in a peculiar manner at the apex; applied to the leaf, petal or stigma.
2. In mineralogy, having all the edges of the primitive form truncated, each by one face. Cleaveland.

E-MAR'GIN-ATE, v.t.

To take away the margin.

E-MAR'GIN-ATE-LY, adv.

In the form of notches.

E-MAR'GIN-A-TING, ppr.

Taking away the margin.

E-MAS'CU-LATE, a.

Unmanned; deprived of vigor. Hammond.

E-MAS'CU-LATE, v.t. [Low L. emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.]

1. To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; to deprive of virility.
2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. Women emasculate a monarch's reign. Dryden. To emasculate the spirits. Collier.

E-MAS'CU-LA-TED, pp.

Castrated; weakened.

E-MAS'CU-LA-TING, ppr.

Castrating; gelding; depriving of vigor.

E-MAS-CU-LA'TION, a.

1. The act of depriving a male of the parts which characterize the sex; castration.
2. The act of depriving of vigor or strength; effeminacy; unmanly weakness.

EM-BALE', v.t. [Fr. emballer; Sp. embalar; It. imballare; em, im, for en or in, and balla, balle, bale.]

1. To make up into a bundle, bale or package; to pack.
2. To bind; to inclose. Spenser.

EM-BAL'ED, pp.

Made into a bale.

EM-BAL'ING, ppr.

Making into a bale.

EM-BALM', v.t. [embàm; Fr. embaumer, from baume, balm, from balsam; It. imbalsamare; Sp. embalsamar.]

1. To open a dead body, take out the intestines, and fill their place with odoriferous and desiccative spices and drugs, to prevent its putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. Gen. 1.
2. To with sweet scent. Milton.
3. To preserve, with care and affection, from loss or decay. The memory of my beloved daughter is embalmed in my heart. N. W. Virtue alone, with lasting grace, / Embalms the beauties of the face. J. Trumbull.

EM-BALM'ED, pp.

Filled with aromatic plants for preservation; preserved from loss or destruction.

EM-BALM'ER, a.

One who embalms bodies for preservation.

EM-BALM'ING, ppr.

Filling a dead body with spices for preservation; preserving with care from loss, decay or destruction.

EM-BALM'MENT, n.

Act of embalming.

EM-BAR', v.t. [en and bar.]

1. To shut, close or fasten with a bar; to make fast.
2. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape. Where fast embarr'd in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.
3. To stop; to shut from entering; to hinder; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.

EM-BAR-CA'TION, n.

Embarkation, – which see.

EM-BAR'GO, n. [Sp. embargo; Port. Fr. id. This is a modern word from the Spanish and Portuguese. In Portuguese, embaraçàr, which the Spanish write embarazar, is to embarrass, entangle, stop, hinder; Port. embaraço, impediment, embarrassment, stop, hinderance. The palatal being changed into z and s, we have embarrass from this word; but embargo retains the palatal letter.]

In commerce, a restraint on ships, or prohibition of sailing, either out of port, or into port, or both; which prohibition is by public authority, for a limited time. Most generally it is a prohibition of ships to leave a port.

EM-BAR'GO, v.t. [Sp. and Port. embargar.]

1. To hinder or prevent ships from sailing out of port, or into port, or both, by some law or edict of sovereign authority, for a limited time. Our ships were for a time embargoed by a law of congress.
2. To stop; to hinder from being prosecuted by the departure or entrance of ships. The commerce of the United States has been embargoed.

EM-BAR'GOED, pp.

Stopped; hindered from sailing; hindered by public authority, as ships or commerce.

EM-BAR'GO-ING, ppr.

Restraining from sailing by public authority; hindering.

EM-BARK', v.i.

1. To go on board of a ship, boat or vessel; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
2. To engage in any business; to undertake in; to take a share in. The young man embarked rashly in speculation, and was ruined.