emissory (emisori)

[ emit (e-mit'), r. t.; pret. and pp. emitted, ppr. emitting. [= F. émettre = Sp. emitir = Pg. emittir = It. emettere, out, emit, The dying lamp feebly emits a yellow gleam. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 4. While yon sun emits his rays divine. Mickle , tr. of Camoens's Lusiad, ii. A baker's oven, emitting the usual fragrance of sour bread. Hawthorne, Marble Faun, v. A body absorbs with special energy the rays which it can itself emit. Tyndall, Light and Elect., p. 78. 2. To let fly; discharge; dart or shoot. [Rare.] Pay sacred Rev'rence to Apollo's Song; Lest wrathful the far-shooting God emit His fatal Arrows. Prior , tr. of Second Hymn of Call i mach us. 3. To i ue, as an order or a decree; i ue for circulation, as notes or bills of credit. That a citation be valid, it ought to be decreed and emitted by the judge's authority. No state shall Ayliffe , Parergon. emit bills of credit. Constitution of United States, Art. i. § 10. To emit a declaration, in Scots criminal law, in the case of a person suspected of having committed a to give an account of himself before a magistrate, usually the sheriff, which account is taken down in writing and made use of at the trial of the accused. emittent (e-mit'ent), a. and n. [ II. n. One who or that which emits. They did it [bleeding one animal into another] yesterday before the society, very succe fully also, upon a bullmastiff and a spaniel, the former being the emittent , the other the recipient. Boyle, Works, VI. 237. emmanché (e-mon-shā'), a. [F., pp. of emman cher, put a handle on, haft, emmantlet (e-man'tl), v. t. [ The world, and this, which by another name men have thought good to call heauen (under the pour prise and bending cope whereof all things are emmantelled and covered). Holland, tr. of Pliny, i. 1. 2. To place round, by way of fortification; construct as a defense. Besides the walls that he caused to be built and emman telled about other towns. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxix. 1. Emmanuel (e-man'u-el), n. 1. See Immanuel , -2. An ointment much used in the latter part of the sixteenth century, composed of herbs boiled in wine, and having pitch, suet, mastic, etc., afterward added. emmarblet (e-mär'bl), v. t. [ Also enmarble . Thou doest emmarble the proud hart of her Whose love before their life they doe prefer. Spenser, In Honour of Love, 1. 139. emmeleia (em-e-lē'yä), n. [ ἐμμέλεια , harmony, unison, ἐμμελής , harmonious, in unison, ἐν , in, + μέλος , song, harmony.] In Gr.music: (a) Consonance; concord; harmony. (b) A for 1900 mal tragic dance, or the music with which such a dance was accompanied. emmenagogic (e-men-a-goj'ik), a. Of or pertaining to an emmenagogue; promoting menstruation.