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▪ I. emery, n.|ˈɛmərɪ|
Also 6 emerye, (ymree), 7–8 emeril(l, 7 emerick.
[a. F. émeri, émeril, OF. esmeril = Sp. esmeril, It. smeriglio:—late L. smericulum, f. Gr. σµῆρις (σµῖρις, σµῦρις) a powder used for polishing.]
1. a. A coarse variety of corundum, used for polishing metals, stones, and glass.
1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (1844) 379 My Lord toke to..the armore to by with emery xxd. 1505Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. *123 Dichting of their steil sadilles with ymree. 1577Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) I. 415, Viij pounde emerye. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 225 That most hard and sharpe stone Smyris (which we tearme Emerill). 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 2 Jernsey..whose..ground The hardned Emerill hath. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 69 The Magnet attracteth..the Smyris or Emery in powder. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 15 Make it..smoother with Emerick. 1759Wilson in Phil. Trans. LI. 336, I then, with a little emery, made that edge..rough again. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. III. 349 The sharp and hard Stone Smyris or Emeril. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 33 Emery is..employed as the cutting powder. 1858Greener Gunnery 217 Polish the barrels with..a little washed emery.
b. = emery bag. U.S.
1864Hist. North-Western Soldiers' Fair 71, 2 soldiers' reticules, 3 pin cushions, 5 emeries, 1 crochet tidy. 1900M. E. Wilkins Love of Parson Lord 47 Her scissors, her emery, her thread, were on the ground. Ibid. 49 An emery of painted velvet in an ivory case.
2. (See quot.)
1789Mills Strata Irel. in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 97 An irregular bed of iron ore, called emery by the inhabitants.
3. attrib. and Comb., as emery grinding, emery shaping, emery-stone; also emery bag, a case containing emery, used for keeping needles bright; emery board, an emery-coated nail file (see also quot. 1889); emery-cake (see quot. 1853); emery-cloth, -paper, cloth or paper covered with emery-powder, to be used for polishing or cleaning metals, etc.; emery cushion = emery bag; emery-file (see quot.); emery-grinder, an emery-wheel mounted on a stand, to be used as a grind-stone; emery planer, a planer having an emery wheel as a cutter instead of a blade; emery-powder, ground emery, hence as v., to rub with emery-powder; emery-roller, a roller coated with emery; emery-stick (see quot.); emery-wheel, a wheel made of lead, or of wood covered with leather, coated with emery, and used for polishing.
1845Lowell (Mass.) Offering V. 200 The strenuous application..soon taught me the value of an *emery-bag. 1893‘Mark Twain’ in Century Mag. Dec. 237/2 They [the slaves] would smouch provisions..or a brass thimble,..or an emery-bag. 1905Daily Chron. 6 Apr. 4/7 A minority of Englishwomen who chafed against their educational inequalities, who loathed their emery-bag destiny.
1725in N. & Q. (1942) CLXXXII. 76/2 (London shop-sign) Sieve & *emery board. Robert Bacon, wire sieve maker. 1889Cent. Dict., Emery-board, cardboard-pulp mixed with emery-dust and cast in cakes. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 538/2 Emery Boards—pkt 0/6. 1938D. du Maurier Rebecca vi. 63 He took an emery board out of his pocket and began filing his nails. 1968P. Geddes High Game i. 12 She had taken an emery board from her handbag.
1853Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 644 *Emery-cake consists of emery mixed with a little beeswax.
1873Young Englishwoman Feb. 94/1 This natty little *emery cushion is composed of grey leather..filled with emery. 1937A. Thirkell Summer Half ix. 241 Enchanting odds and ends, such as strawberry emery cushions and ivory stilettoes.
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 101 *Emery File..a solid stick of Emery used as a file.
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 312/1 *Emery grinding machine.
1772Phil. Trans. LXII. 360 The stem..made very smooth with *Emery paper. 1812Examiner 28 Dec. 824/2 Blacking and emery-paper manufacturers.
18..Oxford Bible Helps 126 The corundum..which when ground is known to us as *emery powder.
1885Mrs. J. H. Riddell Mitre Court I. iv. 86 She had scrubbed, blackleaded..and *emery-powdered for that gentleman.
1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 274/1 An *emery roller is geared upon the..main cylinder.
1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 157/1 Emery wheels are now mounted for use in a great many different ways,—either on slide-rests as turning tools, in emery planers and *emery shaping machines [etc.].
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 101 *Emery stick..a stick of wood round which Emery paper is glued.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. iii. 5 *Emeril-stones. 1765Bowles in Phil. Trans. LVI. 231 Great blocks of emery-stone. 1864Rawlinson Anc. Mon. II. vii. 187 The shamir, or emery-stone.
1873J. Richards Wood-working Factories 58 Grindstones, *emery wheels, buffing wheels.
▪ II. emery, v.|ˈɛmərɪ|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To rub or polish with emery; to coat with emery.
Hence ˈemeried ppl. a.
1844N. Brit. Rev. II. 192 An emeried wheel. 1865Intell. Observ. No. 38. 123 An emeried glass-plate. |