emmet

plural emmets

1. archaicdialectalAn ant.

   1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c

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   He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 47

   What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?

   before 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you"

   Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.

   1789, William Blake, “A Dream”, in Songs of Innocence

   [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.

   1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, IV.430

   We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.

   1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford

2. CornwallderogatoryA tourist.

alternative Emmett

1. A surname.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A ghost town in Queensland, Australia.
4. A city in Nevada and Hempstead, Arkansas.
5. A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
6. An unincorporated community in McLean County, North Dakota.
7. A ghost town in Union County, South Dakota.
8. A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
9. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.