n. 1. any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; sometimes included in subfamily Amaryllidaceae.
Syn. -- family Alstroemeriaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. antemeridianus; ante + meridianus belonging to midday or noon. See Meridian. ] Being before noon; in or pertaining to the forenoon. (Abbrev. a. m.) [ 1913 Webster ]

Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blasphemes. [ 1913 Webster ]

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God ? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. demergere. ] To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The water in which it was demerged. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démérite demerit (in sense 2), OF. demerite demerit (in sense 1), fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to deserve well or ill; de- + merere to deserve. See De-, and Merit. ] 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [ they ] acquired this reputation. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit. [ 1913 Webster ]

They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of one who deserves ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. démériter to deserve ill. See Demerit, n. ] 1. To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If I have demerited any love or thanks. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Executed as a traitor . . . as he well demerited. State Trials (1645). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To depreciate or cry down. [ R. ] Bp. Woolton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To deserve praise or blame. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. demersus, p. p. of demergere. See Merge. ] To immerse. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. demersio. ] 1. The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being overwhelmed in water, or as if in water. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disesteems. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. emeraude, OF. esmeraude, esmeralde, F. émeraude, L. smaragdus, fr. Gr. &unr_;; cf. &unr_;kr. marakata. ] 1. (Min.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare&unr_;l. It is used by English printers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in the type called emerald. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald. “Emerald meadows.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Emerald fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. --
Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also used adjectively; as, emerald green crystals. --
Emerald Isle, a name given to Ireland on account of the brightness of its verdure. --
Emerald spodumene, or
Lithia emerald. (Min.) See Hiddenite. --
Emerald nickel. (Min.) See Zaratite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Emerald, n. ] An emerald. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Emerged p. pr. & vb. n. Emerging ] [ L. emergere, emersum; e out + mergere to dip, plunge. See Merge. ] To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. “Thetis . . . emerging from the deep.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emergences The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emergencies [ See Emergence. ] 1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom she might her doubts propose,
On all emergencies that rose. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies. Brougham.

Syn. -- Crisis; conjuncture; exigency; pinch; strait; necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emergens, p. pr. of emergere. ] 1. Rising or emerging out of a fluid or anything that covers or conceals; issuing; coming to light. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mountains huge appear emergent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; calling for prompt action; urgent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Protection granted in emergent danger. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence.

-- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Emery. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A glazier's diamond. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Emeritus. ] Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., having served out his time, p. p. of emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's term; e out + merere, mereri, to merit, earn, serve. ] Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Emeriti [ L. ] A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

{ } n. pl. [ OF. emmeroides. See Hemorrhoids. ] Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [ R. ] Deut. xxviii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. emersus, p. p. See Emerge. ] (Bot.) Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. émersion. See Emerge. ] 1. The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. émeri, earlier émeril, It. smeriglio, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, &unr_;, cf. &unr_; to wipe; perh. akin to E. smear. Cf. Emeril. ] (Min.) Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. --
Emery cloth or
Emery paper, cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing. --
Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a day fly, fr. &unr_; daily, lasting but a day; &unr_; over + &unr_; day. ] 1. (Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. “Ephemeral popularity.” V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. Sir J. Stephen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ephemeral fly (Zoöl.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larvæ are aquatic; -- called also day fly and May fly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) One of the ephemeral flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ephemeral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ephemerides [ L., a diary, Gr. &unr_;, also, a calendar, fr. &unr_;. See Ephemera. ] 1. A diary; a journal. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the “American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.” (b) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Literature) A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who studies the daily motions and positions of the planets. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Ephemera [ NL. See Ephemera. ] (Zoöl.) One of the ephemeral flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ephemeral. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ L. Euhemerus, Gr. &unr_; a philosopher, about 300 &unr_;. ] The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who advocates euhemerism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to euhemerism. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. To interpret (mythology) on the theory of euhemerism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) See Femerell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. fumeraille part of a chimney. See Fume. ] (Arch.) A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, the opposite of &unr_;; &unr_; day + &unr_; of &unr_;. See Nyctalopia. ] (Med.) A disease of the eyes, in consequence of which a person can see clearly or without pain only by daylight or a strong artificial light; day sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, i. e., day blindness. See Nyctalopia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; day + &unr_; life. ] (Zool.) A neuropterous insect of the genus Hemerobius, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of relating to the hemerobians. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of insects including the brown lacewings.
Syn. -- family Hemerobiidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]