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Em*bogue" (?), v. i. [See Disembogue.] To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

Em*bo"guing (?), n. The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]

Em*boil" (?), v. i. To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.

Em*boil", v. t. To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [Obs.] Spenser.

||Em`boîte"ment` (?), n. [F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box.] (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.

Em*bold"en (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboldened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Emboldening (?).] To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak.

The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office.

Sir W. Scott.

Em*bold"en*er (?), n. One who emboldens.

Em*bol"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; to throw in. See Embolism.] 1. Embolismic.

2. (Med.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

3. (Biol.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Em"bo*lism (?), n. [L. embolismus, from Gr. &?; to throw or put in, insert; cf. &?; intercalated: cf. F. embolisme. See Emblem.] 1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

2. Intercalated time. Johnson.

3. (Med.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

Em`bo*lis"mal (?), a. Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

{ Em`bo*lis*mat"ic (?), Em`bo*lis*mat"ic*al (?), } a. Embolismic.

{ Em`bo*lis"mic (?), Em`bo*lis"mic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. embolismique.] Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

Em"bo*lite (?), n. [From Gr. &?; something thrown in between.] (Min.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

Em"bo*lus (?), n.; pl. Emboli (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?; pointed so as to be put or thrust in, fr. &?; to throw, thrust, or put in. See Emblem.] 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

2. (Med.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

Em"bo*ly (?), n. [Gr. &?; a putting into.] (Biol.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

||Em`bon`point" (?), n. [F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point.] Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Em*bor"der (?), v. t. [Pref. em- (L. in) + border: cf. OF. emborder.] To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

Em*bos"om (?), v. t. [Written also imbosom.] 1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.

Glad to embosom his affection.

Spenser.

2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.