Defn: A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
EMERODS; EMEROIDS
Em"er*ods, Em"er*oids, n. pl. Etym: [OF. emmeroides. See
Hemorrhoids.]
Defn: Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils. [R.] Deut. xxviii. 27.
EMERSED
E*mersed", a. Etym: [L. emersus, p. p. See Emerge.] (Bot.)
Defn: Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.
EMERSION
E*mer"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. émersion. See Emerge.]
1. The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. Their immersion into water and their emersion out of the same. Knatchbull.
2. (Astron.)
Defn: The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon.
EMERY Em"er*y, n. Etym: [F. émeri, earlier émeril, It. smeriglio, fr. Gr. smear. Cf. Emeril.] (Min.)