emarginate

[Lat. emarginatus, pa. par. of emargino: e =out, away, and mar go (gen it. mar gin is )=an edge, a margin.] Bot., Entom ., .: Notched or indented at the tip, as if a part had been cut out of the margin. Example, the leaf of the box-tree or shrub ( Buxus sempervirens ). ( Lindley .) "Anterior angles obtusely rounded, apex emarginate , surface sparsely punctured."-Trans. Amer. Philos. So ciety (1873), p. 124. [EMARGIN II. Scots Law : To liberate or release from parental authority. B. As adj.: The same as EMARGINATE, a. (q. v.) pine, pit, sire, sir, marîne; gō, pot, IMG:content-0898.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0899.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0900.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The art of preserving the dead bodies of men or animals. The earliest examples are found in Egypt, where it was practiced over 3,000 years ago. The invention was ascribed by them to Anubis, the son of Osiris, who was said to have performed the office for his father. The prac- tice prevailed, though not so extensively, among the nations of Asia, and was at a later period in use to some extent among the Greeks and Romans. Drying the bodies in sand was the method chiefly practiced among the poorer cla es. Embalming was also performed by salting in natron, and then drying; boiling in resins and bitumen; and by removing the brain and viscera, washing, and apply- ing and resins, myrrh, ca ia, and other aromatic substances. In some cases oil of cedar was injected into the cavity of the body, which was then steeped in a solution of natron for seventy days, when the viscera came away, leaving little but skin and bone remaining. Among the upper cla es, the bodies, after being prepared, were swathed in linen band- ages saturated with gum, the total length of which amounted in some instances to more than 1,000 yards. Within and about the bodies of different mummies have been found sulphate of soda, salt- peter, common salt, soda, oil of cedar, turpentine, asphalt, myrrh, cinnamon, and other substances. In very recent times, with the increase of chemical knowledge, considerable attention has been devoted to the subject, and various proce es and compounds have been devised. *ěm-balm'-ment (l silent), *em-bal-ment, s. [Eng. embal (m); -ment.] The act, art, or proce of embalming. "To carry the corpse to Ru ell's leave it there till he sent orders for the embalm ent ."-Malone: Life of Dryden; The Funeral. ěm-băńk', v . t. [Pref.em, and Eng. bank (q. v.).] To inclose with a bank or mound; to cast up a bank or mound round; to surround or defend with a bank, mound, or dike; to bank up. and that which requires to be heaped up for the same purpose is embankment . (q. v.).] 1. To shut, close, or fasten with a bar or bolt. 2. To shut up, or confine as with bars and bolts. "Fast embar'd in mighty brazen wall, He has them now four years besieged to make them thrall." Spenser: F. Q. , L. vii. 44. 3. To hinder, to prohibit, to prevent, to forbid. "This commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not Embarred, and all his traffic quite forgot." Donne : Anatomy of the World. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0901.png:[blocks in formation] embarra