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Em*ploy"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. employable.] Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

||Em`ploy`é" (?), n. [F., p. p. of employer.] One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.

Em`ploy*ee" (?), n. [The Eng. form of employé.] One employed by another.

Em*ploy"er (?), n. One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

Em*ploy"ment (?), n. 1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments; public employments; in the employment of government.

Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack.

Young.

Syn. -- Work; business; occupation; vocation; calling; office; service; commission; trade; profession.

Em*plumed" (?), a. Plumed. [R.]

Em*plunge" (?), v. t. [Cf. Implunge.] To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] Spenser.

Em*poi"son (?), v. t. [F. empoisonner; pref. em- + F. poison. See Poison, and cf. Impoison.] To poison; to impoison. Shak.

Em*poi"son, n. Poison. [Obs.] Remedy of Love.

Em*poi"son*er (?), n. Poisoner. [Obs.] Bacon.

Em*poi"son*ment (?), n. [F. empoisonnement.] The act of poisoning. Bacon.

{ Em`po*ret"ic (?), Em`po*ret"ic*al (?), } a. [L. emporeticus, Gr. &?;. See Emporium.] Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise. [Obs.] Johnson.

Em*po"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Emporiums (#), L. Emporia (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; belonging to commerce, fr. &?; traveler, trader; &?; in + &?; way through and over, path. See In, and Empiric, Fare.] 1. A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.

That wonderful emporium [Manchester] . . . was then a mean and ill-built market town.

Macaulay.

It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers.

Knox.

2. (Physiol.) The brain. [Obs.]

Em*pov"er*ish (?), v. t. See Impoverish.

Em*pow"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Empowering.] 1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.

Em"press (?), n. [OE. empress, emperice, OF. empereis, empereris, fr. L. imperatrix, fem. of imperator. See Emperor.] 1. The consort of an emperor. Shak.

2. A female sovereign.

3. A sovereign mistress. "Empress of my soul." Shak.