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<h1>Embattle</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bat"tle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Battlement</er>.]</ety> <def>To furnish with battlements.</def> "<i>Embattled</i> house."

<i>Wordsworth.</i>

<h1>Embattled</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bat"tled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having indentations like a battlement.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Having been the place of battle; <as>as, an <ex>embattled</ex> plain or field</as>.</def>

<i>J. Baillie.</i>

<h1>Embattlement</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bat"tle*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An intended parapet; a battlement.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.</def>

<h1>Embay</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bay"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + <ets>bay</ets> to bathe.]</ety> <def>To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Embay</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bay"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Embayed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Embaying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + 1st <ets>bay</ets>.]</ety> <def>To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.</def>

<blockquote>If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and <b>embayed</b>, they are drowned. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Embayment</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bay"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A bay.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>embayment</b> which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Embeam</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*beam"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make brilliant with beams.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>G. Fletcher.</i>

<h1>Embed</h1> <Xpage=482>

<hw>Em*bed"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Embedded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Embedding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + <ets>bed</ets>. Cf. <er>Imbed</er>.]</ety> <def>To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; <as>as, to <ex>embed</ex> a thing in clay, mortar, or sand</as>.</def>

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