embryotomy

[ Gr.embryon =an embryo, and tome a cutting, from temno =to cut.] Med.: A cutting of an embryo or fœtus from the uterus. [EMBRYOCTOMY.] *ěm-bry-ous, a. [Eng. embry(0); -ous.] Having the nature or character of an embryo; embryonic. "Without the first the latter is defective; without the last the first is but abortive and embryo us."-Feltham: Resolves, pt. i., Res. 14. *ěm-būrse', v. t . [IMBURSE.] *ěm-bush', v . t . [Pref. em , and Eng. bush (q.v.).] To place or hide among bushes; to place in ambush. "Embushing himself presently among the bushes and brambles."- Shelton : Don Quixote , bk. iii., c. 9. *ěm-bush'-ment, *em-bu he-ment, s . [Eng. embush; -ment.] An ambush. "His enemies had laid some embushment for him."Brende: Quintus Curtius, fol. 46. *ěm-bus-ý (us as Iz), *im-bus-y, v . t . [Pref. em, and Eng. busy (q. v.).] To busy, to employ, to IMG:content-0924.png:[blocks in formation] ě-men-a-gogue, s. [EMMENAGOGUE.] ě-měnd', *e-mende, v. t. [Lat. emendo =to free from faults: e=out, and mendum a fault.] [AMEND.] 1. To free from faults or blemishes; to amend, to improve. "Thei bee not anything emended, or bettered in their livyng."-Udall: Apophth. of Erasmus, p. 55. 2. To correct, to improve, to make better. "Have us excused, that we no better do, An other time to emende it if we can." Mystery of Candle mas -day (1512). *ě-měnd-a-ble, a. [Eng. emend; Capable ěm-brỹ-01-ô-gỹ, s. [Gr. embryon=an embryo, of me enation that mayer can be emended. and logos a discourse.] 103 ě-měnd-alş, 's. pl . [EMEND.] A term in old accounts, signifying the sum total in stock. ( Halli well .) The word occurs still in the books of the Society of the Inner Temple, where so much in sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f emendately amendals at the foot of an account on the balance thereof shows that so much money is in the bank or stock of the house for the reparation of lo es or other emergent occasions. *ě-měnd-ate-ly, *e-men-dat-ly, adv . [Lat. emend at us , pa. par. of emendo ; Eng. suff. -ly .] Free from fault or blemish; correctly. "The printers were very desirous to have the Bible come forth as faultle and emendately as the shortne of time for the recognizing of the same would require."Dedic. of the Bible to Henry VIII . (1539).