Old English | sb | English |
Embe | adv | A variant of OE: ymbe with the meaning of about, around. |
Ember | n | A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from the fire and is glowing or smoldering. |
Ember | vb | To burn as an ember. |
Ember days | n | (OE ymbrynen: revolution; running, course) twelve days of the year (divided into seasonal periods) set aside by the church for fasting and prayers. See" ember months, ember tide, ember weeks. |
Embered | adj | Strewn with embers. 2. burnt to embers. |
Ember-goose | n | So called from its appearing of the coast in the ember days before christmas. 2. an almost extent residue of a past activity or feelings. |
Emberings | n | Ember days: ember deriving from Anglo-saxon ymben - a circuit or revolution (from ymb, around and ryne: running) clearly relating to the annual cycle of the year. |
Emberlike | adj | Resembling an ember or some aspect of one. |
Ember months | n | The months September, October, November and December, esp. considered together as a period of heightened or intense activity. See; ember days, ember tide, ember weeks. |
Embertide | n | The time of the embers days. See: ember months, ember days, ember weeks. |
Ember weeks | n | The weeks of ember-time. See: ember days, ember months, ember tide. |
Embe-uten | adv | Round about. |
Embsnithe | vb | To circumcise. |
Embthought | n | Anxiety, thought or care about something. |
Emmet | n | An ant. |
Empt | vb | To be at leisure (only in OE). 2. to pour forth, discharge, clear a vessel of it's contents. |
Empted | adj | That has been emptied of it's contents; emptied. |
Emptier | n | One who or that which empties |
Emptily | adv | In an empty manner. |
Empty | adj | Of a person at leisure; not occupiec or engaged. 2. having an empty stomach. 3. of the body: wanting or not having fullness; emaciated, shrunken. 4. weak of pulse. 5. not pregnant of a cow or farm animal. 6. of a house building: vacant. 7. void of space. 8. a ship or beast of burden: without a load. 9. not carrying anything in hand; empty-handed. 10. of things: wanting solidity and substance; unsatisfying, vain, meaningless. 11. destitute of money |
Empty | phr | "Empty Out" - to remove all contents of. 2. allow to drain out. 3. allow to fall out. |
Empty | phr | "Empty Into" - take out all contents of; and put, pour etc into another. |
Empty-fisted | adj | Bringing or lacking nothing. 2. having achieved or obtained nothing. |
Empty-handed | adj | Bringing or lacking nothing. 2. having achieved or obtained nothing. 3. bring nothing; esp. no gift. 4. carrying nothing away. |
Empty-headed | adj | Foolish, lacking common sense. |
Empty-hearted | adj | Having no compassionate for others. |
Emptying | n | The act by which something is made empty or emptied . |
Emptyish | adj | Somewhat empty. |
Empty nest | n | Home or family where the children have grown up and moved away. |
Empty nester | n | Either of a couple whose children have grown up and moved away. |
Empty nesting | n | The state of a family where the children have grown up and moved away. |
Empty-word | n | Linguistics: a word which has no meaning in itself but serves a grammatical function, e.g. at, but, for. |
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