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Emolʹument

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Literally, that which comes out of the mill. (Latin, e-mola.) It originally meant toll on what was ground. (See Grist.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Emerald Isle
Emeralds
Emergency
Emergency Man (An)
Emeute (French)
Emile
Emilia (in Shakespeare’s Othello)
Emilie (The divine)
Emmet
Emne
Emolument
Emotion
Empanel
Empannel
Empedoclēs
Emperor
Emperor of Believers
Emperor of the Mountains
Empire City (The)
Empire of Reason; the Empire of Truth
Empirics

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