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<p><b>1.</b> <def>To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; <as>as, to <ex>embezzle</ex> money held in trust</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To <b>embezzle</b> our money in drinking or gaming. <i>Sharp.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Embezzlement</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bez"zle*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; <as>as, the <ex>embezzlement</ex> by a clerk of his employer's; <ex>embezzlement</ex> of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.</as></def>

<note>&hand; <i>Larceny</i> denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; <i>embezzlement</i> denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States <i>embezzlement</i> is made indictable by statute.</note>

<h1>Embezzler</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bez"zler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who embezzles.</def>

<h1>Embillow</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bil"low</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To swell or heave like a <?/<?/<?/<?/<?/ of the sea.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Lisle.</i>

<h1>Embiotocoid</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em`bi*ot"o*coid</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[NL. <ets>Embiotoca</ets>, the name of one genus + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Belonging to, or resembling, the <spn>Embiotocid\'91</spn>.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>One of a family of fishes (<spn>Embiotocid\'91</spn>) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called <i>surf fishes</i> and <i>viviparous fishes</i>. See <i>Illust</i>. in Append.</def></def2>

<h1>Embitter</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bit"ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make bitter or sad. See <er>Imbitter</er>.</def>

<h1>Embitterment</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bit"ter*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.</def>

<h1>Emblanch</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*blanch"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + 1st <ets>blanch</ets>.]</ety> <def>To whiten. See <er>Blanch</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Heylin.</i>

<h1>Emblaze</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*blaze"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Emblazed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Emblazing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + 1st <ets>blaze</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To adorn with glittering embellishments.</def>

<blockquote>No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or <b>emblaze</b> the floors. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich <b>emblazed</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Emblazon</h1> <Xpage=483>

<hw>Em*bla"zon</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Emblazoned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Emblazoning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> + <ets>blazon</ets>. Cf. <er>Emblaze</er>.]</ety>