Embasement (v. t.) Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.
Embassade (n.) An embassy. See Ambassade.
Embassador (n.) Same as Ambassador.
Embassadorial (a.) Same as Ambassadorial.
Embassadress (n.) Same as Ambassadress.
Embassadry (n.) Embassy.
Embassage (n.) An embassy.
Embassage (n.) Message; errand.
Embassies (pl. ) of Embassy
Embassy (n.) 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.
Embassy (n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
Embassy (n.) The residence or office of an ambassador.
Embastardize (v. t.) To bastardize.
Embathe (v. t.) To bathe; to imbathe.
Embattail (v. t.) To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
Embattled (imp. & p. p.) of Embattle
Embattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embattle
Embattle (v. t.) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
Embattle (v. i.) To be arrayed for battle.
Embattle (v. t.) To furnish with battlements.
Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
Embattled (a.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
Embattled (a.) Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
Embattlement (n.) An intended parapet; a battlement.
Embattlement (n.) The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
Embay (v. t.) To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
Embayed (imp. & p. p.) of Embay
Embaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embay
Embay (v. t.) To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
Embayment (n.) A bay.
Embeam (v. t.) To make brilliant with beams.
Embedded (imp. & p. p.) of Embed
Embedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embed
Embed (v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Embedment (n.) The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
Embellished (imp. & p. p.) of Embellish
Embellishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embellish
Embellish (v. t.) 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.
Embellisher (n.) One who embellishes.
Embellishment (n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
Embellishment (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
Ember (n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
Ember (a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
Ember-goose (n.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.
Emberings (n. pl.) Ember days.
Embetter (v. t.) To make better.
Embezzled (imp. & p. p.) of Embezzle
Embezzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embezzle
Embezzle (v. t.) 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, to embezzle money held in trust.
Embezzle (v. t.) To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
Embezzlement (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.
Embezzler (n.) One who embezzles.
Embillow (v. i.) To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.
Embiotocoid (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidae.
Embiotocoid (n.) One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. See Illust. in Append.
Embitter (v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Embitterment (n.) The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
Emblanch (v. t.) To whiten. See Blanch.
Emblazed (imp. & p. p.) of Emblaze
Emblazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblaze
Emblaze (v. t.) To adorn with glittering embellishments.
Emblaze (v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.
Emblazoned (imp. & p. p.) of Emblazon
Emblazoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblazon
Emblazon (v. t.) To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
Emblazon (v. t.) To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
Emblazoner (n.) One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
Emblazoning (n.) The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
Emblazonment (n.) An emblazoning.
Emblazonries (pl. ) of Emblazonry
Emblazonry (n.) The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
Emblem (n.) Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Emblem (n.) A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity.
Emblem (n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Emblemed (imp. & p. p.) of Emblem
Embleming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblem
Emblem (v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
Emblematic (a.) Alt. of Emblematical
Emblematical (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.
Emblematiccize (v. t.) To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.
Emblematist (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems.
Emblematized (imp. & p. p.) of Emblematize
Emblematizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblematize
Emblematize (v. t.) To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
Emblement (n.) The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.
Emblemized (imp. & p. p.) of Emblemize
Emblemizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblemize
Emblemize (v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
Embloom (v. t.) To emblossom.
Emblossom (v. t.) To cover or adorn with blossoms.
Embodier (n.) One who embodies.
Embodiment (n.) The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
Embodiment (n.) That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
Embodied (imp. & p. p.) of Embody
Embodying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embody
Embody (v. t.) To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.
Embody (v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Embogue (v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
Emboguing (n.) The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
Emboil (v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce.