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EMEU, evidently from the Port. Ema,1 a name which has in turn been applied to each of the earlier-known forms of Ratite birds, but has finally settled upon that which inhabits Australia, though, up to the close of the i8th century, it was given by most authors ...

... alumina which it contains, but seems rather to depend on its physical EMETICS— EMEU condition. Thus, taking the effective hardness of sapphire as ico, Dr J. Lawrence Smith found that the emery of Samos with 70-10% of alumina had a corresponding hardness of 56 ...

... exertions of the Roman women against the law, which almost amounted to a female emeute. (2) The Orchian law, 187 B.C., limited the number of guests at entertainments. An attempt being made to repeal this law, Cato offered strong opposition and delivered a spee ...