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embarras [Fr], encumbrance; obstacle; embarrassment; trouble; difficulty;
fig., pretensions; fine airs. —embarras de choix, embarrassment
of choice; too much to choose from, —embarras de richesses, an
embarrassment of riches; encumbrance of wealth.
embêtant [Fr], annoying; vexing; wearying: colloq.
embonpoint [Fr], plumpness; stoutness; corpulence.
embuscade [Fr], ambush.
embusqué [Fr], lit., one who lurks in ambush; mil., a slacker.
è meglio domandar che errare [It], better ask than lose your way.
è meglio donar la lana che la pecora [It], better give the wool than
the sheep.
è meglio esser mendicante che ignorante [It], better be a beggar than
a fool.
è meglio una volta che mai [It], better once than never.
è meglio un buon amico che cento parenti [It], better one good friend
than a hundred relatives.
emeritus [L; fern, emerita], retired or superannuated after long and
honorable service: a title given esp. to clergymen and college professors.
émeute [Fr], riot; seditious outbreak; popular rising.
émigré [Fr; fern, émigrée], emigrant; refugee; esp., a Royalist refugee
at the time of the French Revolution.
éminement [Fr], in a high degree; eminently.
emir [Ar], military commander; also, a title.
€μσΰ θανόντος yala μι,χθήτω ττυρί [Gr; emoû thanóntos gaia mikhthéto
puri], when I am dead, let the earth be mingled with fire: anonymous
Greek writer quoted by Suetonius.
empesé [Fr; fern, empesée], starched; of style, stiff; formal; affected.
Empfindung [Ger], feeling; sensitiveness; perception.
emplastrum [L; pi. emplastra], a plaster: pharm.
empleado [Sp], employee; clerk; official.
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