emplacement (emplasment)

[ F.emplace ment, G. Rawlinson , Origin of Nations, ii. 241. 2. Place or site. Specifically, in fort .: ( a ) The space within a fortification allotted for the position and service of a gun or battery. The emplacements should be connected with each other and with the barracks by screened roads. Nature, XXXVI. 36. (6) The platform or bed prepared for a gun and its carriage. emplastert (em-plas'tėr), n. [ It. empiastrare , impi a str are , έμπλαστρούν , put on a plaster, ἐμπλαστρον , a plaster: see emplaster , n . Abbr. plaster , q. v.] 1. To cover with or as with a plaster; glo over; palliate. Parde, als fair as ye his name emplastre , He [Solomon) was a lecchour and an ydolastre. Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 1053. The tree that shall emplastred be therby, Take of the gem me, and bark, and therto bynde This gem me unhurt. IMG:content-0404.png:[blocks in formation] See, sweet, here are the engines [an iron crow and a hal- The best of your discretion to employ ter] that must do 't. This gift as I intend it. My stay hath been prolonged Ford , Broken Heart, iii. 5. With hunting obscure nooks for these employments . 4. To occupy; use; apply or devote to an ob- ject; pa in occupation: as, to employ an hour, Syn. 2. Vocation , Trade , etc. (see occupation ); function, a day, or a week; to employ one's life. Some men employ their health, an ugly trick, In making known how oft they have been sick, And give us in recitals of disease A doctor's trouble, but without the fees. =Syn. 2. Employ , Hire , Hire and employ are words of different meaning. To hire is to engage in service for wages. The word does not imply dignity; it is not cus- tomary to speak of hiring a teacher or a pastor; we hire a man for wages; we employ him for wages or a salary. To employ is thus a word of wider signification. A man hired to labor is employed , but a man may be employed in a work who is not hired ; yet the presumption is that the one employing pays. Employ expre es continuous employ (em-ploi'), n. [F. emploi = Sp. ет- Solempnyte hath emplastracion , Wherof beforne is taught the diligence. empleadt, v. t. See implead. emplectite (em-plek'tīt), n. [ emplectum ), + -ite2 .] A sulphid of bismuth and copper, occurring in prismatic crystals of a grayish or tin-white color and bright metallic luster. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. The mellow harp did not their ears employ , And mute was all the warlike symphony. As to the genius of the people, they are industrious, but luxurious and extravagant on the days when they have repose from their employs . Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 10. With due respect and joy, employable (em-ploi'a-bl), a . [ employ + -able .] That may be employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. employé (on-plwo-ya'), n. The French form of employee . employed ne (em-ploi'ed-nes), n. of being employed. IMG:content-0405.png:[blocks in formation] Spenser, F. Q., III. x. 17. That hell Of horrour, whereinto she was so suddenly emplung'd . Daniel , Hymen's Triumph. empodium (em-pō'di-um), n.; pl. empodia (-a). [NL., ἐν , in, + πούς (ποδ-) = E. foot . Cf. Gr. ἐμπόδιος, at one's feet, in the way, similarly formed.] In entom . , a claw-like organ which in many genera of insects is seen between the ungues or true claws. It agrees with the true claws in structure, and by some authors is called spurious claw . It is prominent in lucanid beetles. The term was first used by Nitzch. empoison (em-poi'zn), v. t. [ ME.empoysonen , enpoisonen, enpoysonen, empoisonner , poisonner , poison: see poison .] To poison; affect with or as if with poison; act noxiously upon; em- bitter. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.] And aftre was this Soudan enpoysound at Damasce; and his Sone thoghte to regne aftre him be Heritage. Mandeville, Travels, p. 37. Shak., Cor., v. 5. The whole earth appears unto him blasted with a curse, and empoisoned with the venom of the serpent. Situation of Paradise (1683), p. 62. Yet Envy, spite of her empoisoned breast, Shall say, I lived in grace here with the best. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. That these disdaineous females and this ferocious old woman are placed here by the administration, not only to Dickens, Mugby Junction, iii. employee (em-ploi-e'), n . [ employ + -eel , after F. employé , fem. employée , one employed, pp. of empoison the voyagers, but to affront them! employer, employ.] One who works for an em- ployer; a person working for salary or wages: empoisonert (em-poi'zn-ér), n. [ empoy- applied to any one so working, but usually soner , empoysonen , empoison.] One who poi- IMG:content-0406.png:[blocks in formation] and gives other courts certain civil jurisdiction in such county courts in disputes between masters and employees, cases. Employers' Liability Act, an English statute of 1880, securing to employees a right to damages for in- juries resulting from negligence on the part of the em- ployer. employment (em-ploi'ment), n. [Formerly also imployment ; employment .] 1. The act of employing or using, or the state of being employed. The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. The increasing use of the pointed arch is to be clearly traced, from its first timid employment in construction, till it appears where no constructive advantage is gained by it. C. E. Norton , Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 27. 2. Work or busine of any kind, physical or mental; that which engages the head or hands; or position involving busine : as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments ; public employment. I left the Imployment [logwood trade], yet with a de- sign to return hither after I had been in England. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 131. M. Dumont might easily have found employments more gratifying to personal vanity than that of arranging works not his own. Macaulay , Mirabeau. 3t. An implement. Nares. [Rare.] Thus ended ben thise homicydes two, And eek the false empoysoner also. empoisonment (em-poi'zn-ment), n. [F. em- poi sonne ment, empoisonner , empoison: see em- poison and -ment .) The act of administering poison; the state of being poisoned; a poison- ing. [Rare.] It were dangerous for secret empoisonments . Bacon . The graver blood empoisonments of yellow and other fevers. Alien, and Neurol., VI. 45. empoldered (em-pol'dèrd), a . [ em -1 + pol- der + -ed2.] Reclaimed and brought into the condition of a polder; brought under cultiva- tion. See polder . emporium as Berlin, Madrid, and Lisbon, was then a mean and ill built market-town, containing under six you sand people. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. 2. A bazaar; a shop or store for the sale of a great variety of articles. It is pride, avarice, or voluptuousne which fills our streets, our emporiums , our theatres with all the bustle of busine and alacrity of motion. V. Knox, The Lord's Supper, xxi. He was clad in a new collection of garments which he had bought at a large ready-made clothing emporium that morning. The Century , XXXV. 678. 3t. In anc. med . , the brain, because there all mental affairs are transacted. 1905 expedition, enterprise, And large of limb t' atchieve an hard emprize . Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 53. One hundred and sixty-six lances were broken, when the emprise was declared to be fairly achieved. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., Int. Long fellow , Wayside Inn, Interlude. The deeds of high emprise I sing. empoundt (em-pound'), v. t. See impound. empovert, v. t. [Early mod. E. enpover ; enpauvrir , empoverer , make empriset, v. t. [ emprise , n.] To undertake. poor: see emporish and impoverish.] To impoverish. Lest they should themselves enpover And be brought into decaye. Roy and Barlow, Rede Me and Be nott Wrothe, p. 100.