émouleur, n.m., knife-grinder.
émoulu, -e, part., ground. Frais — de; fresh from, just come from. Il est frais — du collège; he is fresh from college. Combattre à fer —; to fight with sharp weapons.
émoussage, n.m., (agri.) emuscation.
émoussé, -e, part., blunt; dull. Un esprit —; a dull mind. Des sens —s; deadened senses. Etat —; bluntness.
émousser, v.a., to make blunt; to take off the edge; to dull; to take the moss off trees; to deaden. — un rasoir; to take the edge off a razor.
s’émousser, v.r., to get blunt; to become dull; to be, to become, deadened or blunted. La pointe de ce couteau s’est émoussée; the point of this knife is blunted.
émoussoir, n.m., moss-scraper.
*émoustillé, -e, adj., brisk, sprightly.
*émoustiller, v.a., to exhilarate, to put into spirits. S’—; to bestir one’s self; to look alive.
émouvant, adj., touching, moving, affecting, stirring.