EMBARKING
EMB'ARKING, participle present tense Putting on board of a ship or boat; going on shipboard.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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EMBARRASS
EMBAR'RASS, verb transitive1. To perplex; to render intricate; to entangle. We say, public affairs are embarrassed; the state of our accounts is embarrassed; want of order tends...
EMBARRASSED
EMBAR'RASSED, participle passive Perplexed; rendered intricate; confused; confounded.
EMBARRASSING
EMBAR'RASSING, participle present tense Perplexing; entangling; confusing; confounding; abashing.
EMBARRASSMENT
EMBAR'RASSMENT, noun Perplexity; intricacy; entanglement.1. Confusion of mind.2. Perplexity arising from insolvency, or from temporary inability to discharge debts.3. Confusion;...
EMBASE
EMBA'SE, verb transitive [en and base.] To lower in value; to vitiate; to deprave; to impair.The virtue--of a tree embased by the ground.I have no ignoble end--that may embase m...
EMBASEMENT
EMBA'SEMENT, noun Act of depraving; depravation; deterioration.
EMBASSADE
EM'BASSADE, noun An embassy.
EMBASSADOR
EMBAS'SADOR, noun1. A minister of the highest rank employed by one prince or state, at the court of another, to manage the public concerns of his own prince or state, and repres...
EMBASSADRESS
EMBAS'SADRESS, noun The consort of an embassador.1. A woman sent on a public message.
EMBASSAGE
EM'BASSAGE, an embassy, is not used.
EMBASSY
EM'BASSY, noun1. The message or public function of an embassador; the charge or employment of a public minister, whether ambassador or envoy; the word signifies the message or c...
EMBATTLE
EMBAT'TLE, verb transitive [en and battle.] To arrange in order of battle; to array troops for battle.On their embattled ranks the waves return.1. To furnish with battlements.EM...
EMBATTLED
EMBAT'TLED, participle passive Arrayed in order of battle.1. Furnished with battlements; and in heraldry, having the outline resembling a battlement, as an ordinary.2. Having be...
EMBATTLING
EMBAT'TLING, participle present tense Ranging in battle array.
EMBAY
EMBA'Y, verb transitive [en, in, and bay.] To inclose in a bay or inlet; to land-lock; to inclose between capes or promontories.1. To bathe; to wash. [Not used.]
EMBAYED
EMBA'YED, participle passive Inclosed in a bay, or between points of land, as a ship.
EMBED
EMBED', verb transitive [en, in, and bed.] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; as, to embed a thing in clay or in sand.
EMBEDDED
EMBED'DED, participle passive Laid as in a bed; deposited or inclosed in surrounding matter; as ore embedded in sand.
EMBEDDING
EMBED'DING, participle present tense Laying, depositing or forming, as in a bed.
EMBELLISH
EMBEL'LISH, verb transitive [Latin bellus, pretty.]1. To adorn; to beautify; to decorate; to make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; applied to persons or things. We embellish t...
EMBELLISHED
EMBEL'LISHED, participle passive Adorned; decorated; beautified.
EMBELLISHING
EMBEL'LISHING, participle present tense Adorning; decorating; adding grace, ornament or elegance to a person or thing.
EMBELLISHMENT
EMBEL'LISHMENT, noun The act of adorning.1. Ornament; decoration; any thing that adds beauty or elegance; that which renders any thing pleasing to the eye, or agreeable to the t...
EMBER
EMBER, in ember-days, ember-weeks, is the Saxon emb-ren, or ymb-ryne, a circle, circuit or revolution, from ymb, around, and ren, or ryne, course, from the root of run. Ember-da...
EMBER-GOOSE
EM'BER-GOOSE, noun A fowl of the genus Colymbus and order of ansers. It is larger than the common goose; the head is dusky; the back, coverts of the wings and tail, clouded with...
EMBER-WEEK
EMBER-WEEK, [See Ember, supra.]