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<hw>Em*broil"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Embroiled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Embroiling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>embrouiller</ets>; pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>brouiller</ets>. See 1st <er>Broil</er>, and cf. <er>Imbroglio</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife.</def>

<blockquote>The royal house <b>embroiled</b> in civil war. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble.</def>

<blockquote>The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so <b>embroiled</b> with <?/able and legend. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To perplex; entangle; distract; disturb; disorder; trouble; implicate; commingle.</syn>

<h1>Embroil</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*broil"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Embroilment</er>.</def>

<h1>Embroiler</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*broil"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who embroils.</def>

<h1>Embroilment</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*broil"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>embrouillement</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.</def>

<i>Bp. Burnet.</i>

<h1>Embronze</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*bronze"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To color in imitation of bronze. See <er>Bronze</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></def>

<h1>Embrothel</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*broth"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To inclose in a brothel.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Donne.</i>

<h1>Embroude, Embrowde, Embroyde</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw><hw>Em*broud"e</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Em*browd"e</hw>, <hw>Em*broyd"e</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To embroider; to adorn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Embrowded</b> was he, as it were a mead All full of fresshe flowers, white and red. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Embrown</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*brown"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>em-</ets> (L. <ets>in</ets>) + <ets>brown</ets>.]</ety> <def>To give a brown color to; to imbrown.</def>

<blockquote>Summer suns <b>embrown</b> the laboring swain. <i>Fenton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Embrue</h1> <Xpage=484>

<hw>Em*brue"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Imbrue</er>, <er>Embrew</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>