Webster's Dictionary 1913

1216

Embassy

Em″bas‐sy (?), n.; pl.Embassies (#). [OF. ambassée, embascée, LL. ambasciata, fr. ambasciare for ambactiare to go on a mission, fr. L. ambactus vassal, dependent, of Celtic or G...

1217

Embastardize

Em‐bas″tard‐ize (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bastardize.] To bastardize.

1218

Embathe

Em‐bathe″ (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bathe. Cf. Imbathe.] To bathe; to imbathe.

1219

Embattail

Em‐bat″tail (?), v. t. [See Embattle.] To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.To embattail and to wall about thy causeWith iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

1220

Embattle

Em‐bat″tle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Embattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Embattling (?).] [OF. embataillier; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bataille battle. See Battle, and cf. Battlement.] To ...

1221

Embattle (2)

Em‐bat″tle, v. i. To be arrayed for battle.

1222

Embattle (3)

Em‐bat″tle, v. t. [See Battlement.] To furnish with battlements. “Embattled house.” Wordsworth.

1223

Embattled

Em‐bat″tled (?), a. 1. Having indentations like a battlement. Chaucer.2. (Her.) Having the edge broken like battlements; — said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.3....

1224

Embattlement

Em‐bat″tle‐ment (?), n. 1. An intended parapet; a battlement.2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.

1225

Embay

Em‐bay″ (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bay to bathe.] To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. Spenser.

1226

Embay (2)

Em‐bay″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Embayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Embaying.] [Pref. em- + 1st bay.] To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.If that the Turkish fleetBe not ensheltered and emb...

1227

Embayment

Em‐bay″ment (?), n. A bay.The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir W. Scott.

1228

Embeam

Em‐beam″ (?), v. t. To make brilliant with beams. G. Fletcher.

1229

Embed

Em‐bed″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n.Embedding.] [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. Imbed.] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing...

1230

Embedment

Em‐bed″ment (?), n. The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.

1231

Embellish

Em‐bel″lish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Embellished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Embellishing.] [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See Beauty...

1232

Embellisher

Em‐bel″lish‐er (?), n. One who embellishes.

1233

Embellishment

Em‐bel″lish‐ment (?), n. [Cf. F. embellissement.] 1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishm...

1234

Ember

Em″ber (?), n. [OE. emmeres, emeres, AS. �myrie; akin to Icel. eimyrja, Dan. emmer, MHG. eimere; cf. Icel. eimr vapor, smoke.] A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; — used chie...

1235

Ember (2)

Em″ber, a. [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See Amb-, and Run.] Making a circuit of the year of ...

1236

Ember-goose

Em″ber–goose′ (?), n. [Cf. Norw. embergaas, hav-imber, hav-immer, Icel. himbrin, himbrimi.] (Zoöl.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imb...

1237

Emberings

Em″ber‐ings (?), n. pl. Ember days.

1238

Embetter

Em‐bet″ter (?), v. t. To make better.

1239

Embezzle

Em‐bez″zle (ĕm‐bĕz″z'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Embezzled (–z'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.Embezzling (?).] [Norm. F. embeseiller to destroy; cf. OF. besillier to ill treat, ravage, destroy....

1240

Embezzlement

Em‐bez″zle‐ment (?), n. The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement...

1241

Embezzler

Em‐bez″zler (?), n. One who embezzles.

1242

Embillow

Em‐bil″low (?), v. i. To swell or heave like a wave of the sea. Lisle.