emmet

noun

1. (archaic, dialectal)An ant.

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

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

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

   “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.”

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

2. (Cornwall, derogatory)A tourist.

name

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.