emulge
See also: emulgé
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin emulgeo, emulsum; e (“out”) + mulgeo (“to milk”); akin to English milk. See milk.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editemulge (third-person singular simple present emulges, present participle emulging, simple past and past participle emulged)
- (obsolete) To milk out; to drain.
- 1701, Peter Paxton, An Essay concerning the Body of Man:
- the Water cannot so readily subside and fall downwards , it may be the more plentifully emulged into the Bowels, and so that way discharged, as I have sometimes experienced.
References
edit- “emulge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editēmulgē
Spanish
editVerb
editemulge
- inflection of emulger: