Lexicon: employ – enamel

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employ, n. [Fr.]

Occupation; past-time.

employ (-ed), v. [see employ, n.]

  1. Fill; occupy; keep busy.
  2. Use; use as a means.
  3. Commission; entrust.

empower (-ed), v. [see power, n.]

Enable; give physical strength or authorization.

empress, n. [ME < OFr, see emperor, n.]

Queen; commander's wife.

emptiness, n. [see empty, adj.]

[Lit.] nothingness; [fig.] loneliness.

empty, adj. [OE < æmetta, leisure.]

  1. Without; void.
  2. Vacant; abandoned.
  3. Phrase. “empty pack”: loneliness; solitude; destitution; desolation; forlornness; extreme poverty.

empty (emptied), v. [see empty, adj.]

Drain; pour out.

enable (-s, -d, -ing), v. [see able, adj.]

Give power to; allow.

enact (-s, -ed, -ing), v. [L. en, in + see act.]

  1. Perform or represent in action.
  2. Happen; take place; put into place.
  3. Create; influence; cause to act.
  4. Accomplish; do.

enamel, v. [AFr.]

Polish; form a glossy surface.