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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.</def>

<blockquote>Luxury had not <b>emasculated</b> their minds. <i>V. Knox.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Emasculate</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>E*mas"cu*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.</def> "<i>Emasculate</i> slave."

<i>Hammond.</i>

<h1>Emasculation</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>E*mas`cu*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.</def>

<h1>Emasculator</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>E*mas"cu*la`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, emasculates.</def>

<h1>Emasculatory</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>E*mas"cu*la*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Serving or tending to emasculate.</def>

<h1>Embace</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bace"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Embase</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Embale</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bale"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>emballer</ets>; pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>balle</ets> bale. See 1st <er>Bale</er>.]</ety> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To make up into a bale or pack.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bind up; to inclose.</def>

<blockquote>Legs . . . <b>embaled</b> in golden buskins. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Emball</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*ball"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Embale</er>.]</ety> <def>To encircle or embrace.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Embalm</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*balm"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Embalmed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Embalming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>embaumer</ets>; pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>baume</ets> balm. See <er>Balm</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.</def>

<blockquote>Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to <b>embalm</b> <?/is father; and the physicians <b>embalmed</b> Israel. <i>Gem. l. 2.</i></blockquote>