Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sparkling; a flying off in small particles or sparks, as from heated iron or fermenting liquors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
flying off in smallparticles , like heatediron orfermenting liquors ; ascintillation .
Etymologies
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Latin emicatio, from emicare to spring out or forth; e. out + micare to move quickly to and fro, to sparkle.
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