The discharge or flow of a substance (esp. a liquid) from a pipe, valve, or other opening. Obsolete.

Exhalation. Obsolete. rare.

The discharging, emitting, or evacuation of something (now only of the bladder or bowel); = voidance, n. 1a.

A copious emission of smoke, ‘effluvia’ (see effluvium, n.), etc. Also concrete. Obsolete.

The action of emitting or discharging; emission or discharge of something; utterance of words. rare.

The action or process of emitting (breath, fire, etc.).

The action of discharging a missile or of firing a weapon.

Sending outwards; emission.

The action of sending out or forth.

transferred and figurative. The emission of rays (by a luminary), of occult or magical influence, etc.

The action of giving off or sending out (chiefly what is subtle or imponderable, light, heat, gases, odours, sounds, etc.). †Formerly also the…

The action or fact of emitting, or pouring forth; emission, ejection. Also: the rate or amount of emission.

Exclusion; an instance of this.

The action or process of emptying out the contents of something; = avoidance, n. 1. The discharge or evacuation of something through a natural vent…

The action of emit, v.

In extended use: an emission of something other than liquid; a spurt.

Chiefly Chemistry. The emission or release of gas, heat, light, etc.; the disengagement of a substance from combination; an instance of such a…

The action of emitting, evolving, producing. Cf. emanate, v. 4.