These are the meanings of the letters EMPLAC when you unscramble them.
- Ample (a.)
Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
- Ample (a.)
Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
- Ample (a.)
Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.
- Camel (n.)
A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch on the back, while the Bactrian camel (C. Bactrianus) has two. The llama, alpaca, and vicua, of South America, belong to a related genus (Auchenia).
- Camel (n.)
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted.
- Clamp (n.)
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
- Clamp (n.)
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
- Clamp (n.)
A mollusk. See Clam.
- Clamp (n.)
A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
- Clamp (n.)
A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
- Clamp (n.)
An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
- Clamp (n.)
One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
- Clamp (n.)
Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
- Clamp (v. i.)
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
- Clamp (v. t.)
To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
- Clamp (v. t.)
To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
- Macle (n.)
A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
- Macle (n.)
A twin crystal.
- Macle (n.)
Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
- Maple (n.)
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
- Place (n.)
A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.
- Place (n.)
A definite position or passage of a document.
- Place (n.)
A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.
- Place (n.)
Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
- Place (n.)
Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.
- Place (n.)
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.
- Place (n.)
Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.
- Place (n.)
Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.
- Place (n.)
To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.
- Place (n.)
To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
- Place (n.)
To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.
- Place (n.)
To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.
- Place (n.)
To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.
- Place (n.)
Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).