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1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
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That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate. De Quincey.

Syn. -- To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.
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Emanate (?), a. Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]
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Emanation (?), n. [L. emanatio: cf. F. émanation.] 1. The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South.
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Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.
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2. That which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.
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An emanation of the indwelling life. Bryant.
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Emanative (?), a. Issuing forth; effluent.
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Emanatively, adv. By an emanation.
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Emanatory (?), a. Emanative; of the nature of an emanation. Dr. H. More.
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Emancipate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emancipated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emancipating.] [L. emancipatus, p. p. of emancipare to emancipate; e + mancipare to transfer ownership in, fr. manceps purchaser, as being one who laid his hand on the thing bought; manus hand + capere to take. See , and .] To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
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Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

(c) To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
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From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences . . . he had emancipated and freed himself. Evelyn.
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To emancipate the human conscience. A. W. Ward.
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Emancipate (?), a. [L. emancipatus, p. p.] Set at liberty.
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emancipated adj. 1. free from traditional social restraints; -- used especially of women; as, an emancipated young woman pursuing her career. [wns=1]
Syn. -- liberated.
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2. freed from bondage. [wns=2]
Syn. -- freed, liberated.
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emancipating emancipative adj. permitting or conducive to the reduction of restraints on behavior.
Syn. -- freeing, liberating.
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Emancipation (?), n. [L. emancipatio: cf. F. émancipation.] The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; the act or process of emancipation, or the state thereby achieved; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

Syn. -- Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission; enfranchisement.
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Emancipationist, n. An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
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Emancipator (?), n. [L.] One who emancipates.
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Emancipatory (?), a. Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. “Emancipatory laws.” G. Eliot.
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Emancipist (?), n. A freed convict. [Australia]
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Emarginate (?), v. t. [L. emarginare; e out + marginare to furnish with a margin, fr. margo margin.] To take away the margin of.

{ Emarginate (?), Emarginated (?), } a. 1. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
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2. (Bot.) Notched at the summit.
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3. (Cryst.) Having the edges truncated.
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Emarginately, adv. In an emarginate manner.
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Emargination (?), n. The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
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Emasculate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emasculated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emasculating (?).] [L. emasculare; e + masculus male, masculine. See masculine.] 1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
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2. To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
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Luxury had not emasculated their minds. V. Knox.
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emasculate (?), a. Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak. “Emasculate slave.” Hammond.
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emasculated adj. 1. having the testicles removed; -- of a male animal.
Syn. -- cut, gelded, sexless.
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2. deprived of virility, vigor, or manly character.
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emasculation (?), n. 1. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
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2. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
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Emasculator (?), n. [L.] One who, or that which, emasculates.
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Emasculatory (?), a. Serving or tending to emasculate.
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Embace (?), v. t. See . [Obs.]
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Embale (?), v. t. [F. emballer; pref. em- (L. in) + balle bale. See 1st .] [Obs.] 1. To make up into a bale or pack. Johnson.
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2. To bind up; to inclose.
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Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.
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Emball (?), v. t. [See .] To encircle or embrace. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
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Embalm (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embalmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embalming.] [F. embaumer; pref. em- (L. in) + baume balm. See .] 1. To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
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Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm �is father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2.
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2. To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
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With fresh dews embalmed the earth. Milton.
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3. To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
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Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope.
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Embalmer (?), n. One who embalms.
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Embalmment (?), n. [Cf. F. embaumement.] The act of embalming. [R.] Malone.
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Embank (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. .] To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
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Embankment (?), n. 1. The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
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2. A structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
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Embar (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embanking.] [Pref. em- + bar: cf. F. embarrer. Cf. .] 1. To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.
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Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.
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2. To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
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He embarred all further trade. Bacon.
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Embarcation (?), n. Same as .
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Embarge (?), v. t. To put in a barge. [Poetic] Drayton.
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Embargo (?), n.; pl. Embargoes (#). [Sp., fr. embargar to arrest, restrain; pref. em- (L. in) + Sp. barra bar, akin to F. barre bar. See .] An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
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☞ If the embargo is laid on an enemy's ships, it is called a hostile embargo; if on the ships belonging to citizens of the embargoing state, it is called a civil embargo.
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Embargo, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embargoed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embargoing.] To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
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Embark (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embarking.] [F. embarquer; pref. em- (L. in) + barque bark: cf. Sp. embarcar, It. imbarcare. See . a vessel.] 1. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
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2. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
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It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.
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Embark, v. i. 1. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
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2. To engage in any affair.
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Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.
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Embarkation (?), n. 1. The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
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2. That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits. Smollett.
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Embarkment (?), n. [Cf. F. embarquement.] Embarkation. [R.] Middleton.
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Embarrass (ĕmbărr�s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embarrassed (ĕmbărr�st); p. pr. & vb. n. Embarrassing.] [F. embarrasser (cf. Sp. embarazar, Pg. embaraçar, Pr. barras bar); pref. em- (L. in) + LL. barra bar. See .] 1. To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to make (a person) unpleasantly self-conscious; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator. [wns=1]
Syn. -- abash, discompose, disconcert, discomfit, chagrin. [ Webster +PJC]

2. To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed. [wns=2]
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3. (Com.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

Syn. -- To hinder; perplex; entangle; confuse; puzzle; disconcert; abash; distress. -- To , , . We are puzzled when our faculties are confused by something we do not understand. We are perplexed when our feelings, as well as judgment, are so affected that we know not how to decide or act. We are embarrassed when there is some bar or hindrance upon us which impedes our powers of thought, speech, or motion. A schoolboy is puzzled by a difficult sum; a reasoner is perplexed by the subtleties of his opponent; a youth is sometimes so embarrassed before strangers as to lose his presence of mind.
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Embarrass, n. [F. embarras. See , v. t.] Embarrassment. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.
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embarrassed adj. 1. feeling uneasily or unpleasantly self-conscious due to some event or circumstance; as, she was embarrassed by her child's tantrums.
Syn. -- abashed, self-conscious.
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2. feeling inferior or unworthy and hence unpleasantly self-conscious; as, too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street.
Syn. -- chagrined, mortified.
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embarrassing adj. 1. hard to deal with; as, greeted with an embarrassing silence.
Syn. -- awkward, disconcerting, off-putting, sticky, tight, unenviable.
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2. causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.
Syn. -- mortifying, shame-making.
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Embarrassment (?), n. [F. embarrassement.] 1. A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.
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The embarrassment which inexperienced minds have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving.
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The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.
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2. Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
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Embase (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + base, a. or v. t.: cf. OF. embaissier.] To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.]
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Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester.
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Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon.
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Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. South.
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Embasement (?), n. [From , v. t.] Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.
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Embassade (?), n. [F. ambassade. See .] An embassy. See . [Obs.] Shak.
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Embassador (?), n. [F. ambassadeur, Sp. embajador, LL. ambassiator, ambasciator. See , and cf. .] Same as .
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Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour,
Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer.
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Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.
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Embassadorial (?), a. [Cf. F. ambassadorial.] Same as .
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Embassadress (?), n. [Cf. F. ambassadrice.] Same as .
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Embassadry (?), n. [Cf. OF. ambassaderie.] Embassy. [Obs.] Leland.
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Embassage (?; 48), n. 1. An embassy. “He sent a solemn embassage.” Bacon.
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Except your embassages have better success. Motley.
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2. Message; errand. Shak.
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Embassy (?), 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 German origin; cf. W. amaeth husbandman, Goth. andbahts servant, G. amt office, OHG. ambaht. Cf. .] 1. The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
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He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.
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2. The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
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3. The residence or office of an ambassador.
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☞ Sometimes, but rarely, spelled ambassy.
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Embastardize (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bastardize.] To bastardize. [Obs.]
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Embathe (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bathe. Cf. .] To bathe; to imbathe.
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Embattail (?), v. t. [See .] To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic]
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To embattail and to wall about thy cause
With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.
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Embattle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embattling (?).] [OF. embataillier; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bataille battle. See , and cf. .] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
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One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser.
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Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.
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Embattle, v. i. To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]
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Embattle, v. t. [See .] To furnish with battlements. “Embattled house.” Wordsworth.
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Embattled (?), a. 1. Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. (Her.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
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3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie.
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Embattlement (?), n. 1. An intended parapet; a battlement.
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2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
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Embay (?), v. t. [Pref. em- + bay to bathe.] To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Embay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embayed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embaying.] [Pref. em- + 1st bay.] To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
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If that the Turkish fleet
Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.
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Embayment (?), n. A bay. [R.]
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The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir W. Scott.
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Embeam (?), v. t. To make brilliant with beams. [R.] G. Fletcher.
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Embed (ĕmbĕd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Embedding.] [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. .] To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
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embedded adj. 1. enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; as, found pebbles embedded in the silt; stone containing many embedded fossils; as, peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp. [wns=1]
Syn. -- fixed.
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2. inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole; as, confused by the embedded Latin quotations; an embedded subordinate clause. [wns=2]
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Embedment (?), n. The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
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Embellish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embellished (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Embellishing.] [OE. embelisen, embelisshen, F. embellir; pref. em- (L. in) + bel, beau, beautiful. See .] To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See .
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Embellisher (?), n. One who embellishes.
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Embellishment (?), n. [Cf. F. embellissement.] 1. The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
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In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.
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2. That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
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The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor.
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Ember (?), 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 chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. “He rakes hot embers.” Dryden.
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He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.
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Ember, a. [OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See , and .] Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
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