emication

English

Etymology

From Latin emicatio, from emicare (“to spring out or forth”), from e (“out”) + micare (“to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle”).

Noun

emication (usually uncountable, plural emications)

  1. A flying off in small particles, like heated iron or fermenting liquors; a scintillation.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for emication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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