emerald, emerade, emeraud, emeraude, emeraulde

& a. [O. Fr. esmeraude; Fr. émeraude, from Lat. smaragd us; Gr.smarag dos; Sansc. marakata; Sp. esmeralda; Ital. smer aldo.] A. As substantive : I. Ord. Lang .: The same as II. 1 & 2 (q. v.). II. Technically : 2. Scripture : (1) That of the Old Testament : The rendering of the Heb. nophekh (Exod. xxviii. 18, xxxix. 11; Ezek. xxvii. 16, xxviii. 13), a gem which has not been properly identified. The Septuagint and Joseph us render it anthrax =coal, the carbuncle, the ruby, the garnet; cinnabar. (2) That of the New Testament : The rendering of the Gr. smaragdos (Rev. iv. 13, xxi. 19) probably not the emerald but aqua marina. ( Liddell & Scott .) 3. Her .: The green tincture in coat-armor; vert. 4. Print .: A size of type larger than nonpareil and le than minion. B. As adjective : 1. Made of or containing an emerald; as, an emerald ring. 2. Of a bright green color, like an emerald. "Nor trace be there, in early spring, Save of the Fairies' emerald ring." 1634 "Arm of Erin, prove strong; but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save: Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle ." IMG:content-0925.png:[blocks in formation] ě-mērģe, v. i. [Lat. emergo =to rise out of: e= out, and mergo to dip; Ital. emergere.] 1. To rise up out of anything in which a thing has been immersed, sunk, or covered. "They emerged, to the upper part of the spirit of wine, as much of them as lay immersed in the spirit."-Boyle. 2. To i ue, to proceed. "If the prism was turned about its axis that way which made the rays emerge more obliquely out of the second refracting surface of the prism, the image soon became an inch or two longer, or more."- Newton: Optics. 3. To reappear in sight after being temporarily lost to view; as in an eclipse the sun is said to emerge when the moon ceases to obscure its light. "Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then cro ing the fields to emerge again." Long fellow: Landlord's Tale. 4. To rise from a state of depre ion or obscurity; to come forward or into a prominent position. "At the very moment when some of them seemed IMG:content-0926.png:[blocks in formation] "The Septuagint was much depraved, not only from the errors of Scribes, and the emergent corruptions of time."Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. vi., ch. i. *5. Sudden, unexpected, critical; of the nature of an emergency, pre ing. "All the lords declared, that, upon any emergent occasion, they would mount their servants upon their horses." -Clarendon . *B. As subst.: A sudden recurrence; a casualty; an emergency. "They, for those reasons 2nd other emergents, went to work again, and that so avowedly, that they pitched upon my Lord Hamilton to be their head." -Guthry: Memoirs, p. 5. emergent-year, s. Calendar: The epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time. *ě-mer-gent-lý, adv . [Eng. emergent ; -ly.] By emergence or i ue from something else; indirectly. *e-mer-gent-ne , s. [Eng. emergent; -ne .] The faculty or state of being emergent.