Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 19
Embasement (v. t.) Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. -- South.
Embassade (n.) An embassy. See Ambassade. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Compare: Ambassade
Ambassade, Embassade (n.) [F. ambassade. See Embassy.] The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] -- Carew.
Ambassade, Embassade (n.) An embassy. [Obs.] -- Strype. Ambassador
Compare: Ambassdor
Ambassador, Embassador (n.) [See Embassador.] A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
Note: Ambassadors are either ordinary [or resident] or extraordinary, that is, sent upon some special or unusual occasion or errand. -- Abbott.
Embassade (n.) An official messenger and representative.
Embassador (n.) 大使；使節 Same as Ambassador.
Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. -- Chaucer.
Myself my king's embassador will go. -- Dryden.
Embassador (n.) A diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another [syn: ambassador, embassador].
Embassadorial (a.) Same as Ambassadorial.
Ambassadorial (a.) 大使的 Belonging or relating to an ambassador.
// The ambassadorial car/ residence.
// He achieved ambassadorial rank in 1958.
Embassadress (n.) 大使夫人; 女代表; 女大使 Same as Ambassadress.
Embassadry (n.) 大使館，大使及其隨員 Embassy. [Obs.] -- Leland.
Embassage (n.) 大使的使命（或任務）；【古】 = embassy An embassy. "He sent a solemn embassage." -- Bacon.
Except your embassages have better success. -- Motley.
Embassage (n.) Message; errand. -- Shak.
Embassies (n. 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.
He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. -- Jer. Taylor.
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.
Note: Sometimes, but rarely, spelled ambassy.
Embassy (n.) A diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work.
Embassy (n.) An ambassador and his entourage collectively.
Embassy (n.) [ C ] (B1) 大使館全體人員，使館館員 The group of people who represent their country in a foreign country.
// We used to be friendly with some people who worked at the Swedish Embassy.
Embassy (n.) [ C ] (B1) 大使館 The building that these people work in.
// Ambassador held a reception at the embassy.
Embastardize (v. t.) To bastardize. [Obs.]
Embathe (v. t.) To bathe; to imbathe.
Embattail (v. t.) To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic]
To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. -- Tennyson.
Embattled (imp. & p. p.) of Embattle.
Embattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embattle.
Embattle (v. t.) 列陣，布陣，整軍備戰，嚴陣以待 To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
One in bright arms embattled full strong. -- Spenser.
Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. -- Emerson.
Embattle (v. i.) To be arrayed for battle. [Obs.]
Embattle (v. t.) To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." -- Wordsworth.
Embattle (v.) Fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense; "an embattled castle."
Embattle (v.) Prepare for battle or conflict.
Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Embattled (a.) 危機四伏的；處境艱難的 Having a lot of problems or difficulties.
// An embattled government.
// Embattled teachers.
Embattled (a.) (Her.) 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. -- J. Baillie.
Embattled (a.) Prepared for battle; "an embattled city."
Embattled (a.) Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated].
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.
If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. -- Shak.
Embayment (n.) A bay. [R.]
The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. -- Sir W. Scott.
Embayment (n.) An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf [syn: bay, embayment].
Embeam (v. t.) To make brilliant with beams. [R.] -- G. Fletcher.
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.
Embed (v.) Fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant].
Embed (v.) Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division."
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.) 修飾，裝飾，潤色 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.
Syn: To adorn; beautify; deck; bedeck; decorate; garnish; enrich; ornament; illustrate. See Adorn.
Embellish (v.) Add details to [syn: {embroider}, {pad}, {lard}, {embellish}, {aggrandize}, {aggrandise}, {blow up}, {dramatize}, {dramatise}].
Embellish (v.) Be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: {deck}, {adorn}, {decorate}, {grace}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Embellish (v.) Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: {decorate}, {adorn}, {grace}, {ornament}, {embellish}, {beautify}].
Embellish (v.) Make more beautiful [syn: {fancify}, {beautify}, {embellish}, {prettify}] [ant: {uglify}].
Embellish (v.) [ T ] 裝飾，修飾；給…錦上添花，渲染 To make something more beautiful or interesting by adding something to it.
// The ceiling was embellished with flowers and leaves.
// He couldn't resist embellishing the story of his accident a little.
Embellisher (n.) One who embellishes.
Embellishment (n.) 裝飾，潤色，修飾 The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. -- Prescott.
Embellishment (n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. -- I. Taylor.
Embellishment (n.) Elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; "the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings" [syn: {embellishment}, {embroidery}].
Embellishment (n.) A superfluous ornament.
Embellishment (n.) The act of adding extraneous decorations to something [syn: {ornamentation}, {embellishment}].
Ember (n.) （木柴的）餘火，餘燼；（餘火未盡的）煤或炭塊 [P1] A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." -- Dryden.
He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. -- Colebrooke.
Ember (a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
Ember days (R. C. & Eng. Ch.), Days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [A. D. 1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks.
Ember (n.) A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering [syn: ember, coal].
Ember-goose (n.) (Zool.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.].
Emberings (n. pl.) Ember days. [Obs.]
Embetter (v. t.) To make better. [Obs.]
Embezzled (imp. & p. p.) of Embezzle.
Embezzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embezzle.
Embezzle (v. t.) 盜用；侵佔 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. [Obs.]
To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. -- Sharp.
Embezzle (v.) Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family" [syn: {embezzle}, {defalcate}, {peculate}, {misappropriate}, {malversate}].
Embezzlement (n.) 挪用；侵吞；盜用公款 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.
Note: Larceny denotes a taking, by fraud or stealth, from another's possession; embezzlement denotes an appropriation, by fraud or stealth, of property already in the wrongdoer's possession. In England and in most of the United States embezzlement is made indictable by statute.
Embezzlement (n.) The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: {embezzlement}, {peculation}, {defalcation}, {misapplication}, {misappropriation}].
Embezzlement (n.), Crim. law. The fraudulently removing and secreting of personal property, with which the party has been entrusted, for the purpose of applying it to his own use.
Embezzlement (n.) The Act of April 30, 1790, s. 16, 1 Story, L. U. S. 86, provides, that if any person, within any of the laces under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or upon the high seas, shall take and carry away, with an intent to steal or purloin, the personal goods of another; or if any person or persons, having, at any time hereafter, the charge or custody of any arms, ordnance, munition, shot, powder, or habiliments of war, belonging to the. United States, or of any victuals provided for the victualling of any soldiers, gunners, marines, or pioneers, shall, for any lucre or gain, or wittingly, advisedly, and of purpose to hinder or impede the service of the United States, embezzle, purloin, or convey away, any of the said arms, ordnance, munition, shot or powder, habiliments of war, or victuals, that then, and in every of the cases aforesaid, the persons so offending, their counsellors, aiders and abettors, (knowing of, and privy to the offences aforesaid,) shall, on conviction, be fined, not exceeding the fourfold value of the property so stolen, embezzled or purloined the one moiety to be paid to the owner of the goods, or the United States, as the case may be, and the other moiety to the informer and prosecutor, and be publicly whipped, not exceeding thirty-nine stripes.
Embezzlement (n.) The Act of April 20, 1818, 3 Story, 1715, directs that wines and distilled spirits shall, in certain cases, be deposited in the public warehouses of the United States, and then it is enacted, s. 5, that if any wines, or other spirits, deposited under the provisions of this act, shall be embezzled, or fraudulently hid or removed, from any store or place wherein they shall have been deposited, they shall be forfeited, and the person or persons so embezzling, hiding, or removing the same, or aiding or assisting therein, shall be liable to the same pains and penalties as if such wines or spirits had been fraudulently unshipped or landed without payment of duty.
Embezzlement (n.) By the 21st section of the act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the post-office, passed March 3, 1825, 3 Story, 1991, the offence of embezzling letters is punished with fine and imprisonment. Vide Letter.
Embezzlement (n.) The act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes, passed March 3, 1825, s. 24, 3 Story, 2006, enacts, that if any of the gold or silver coins which shall be struck or coined at the mint of the United States, shall be debased, or made worse, as to the proportion of fine gold or fine silver therein contained, or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be, pursuant to the several acts relative thereto, through the default or with the connivance of any of the officers or persons who shall be employed at the said mint, for the purpose of profit or gain, or otherwise, with a fraudulent intent and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals which shall, at any time, be committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined; or any of the coins which shall be struck or coined, at the said mint; every such officer, or person who shall commit any, or either, of the said offences, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years, and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
Embezzlement (n.) When an embezzlement of a part of the cargo takes place on board of a ship, either from the fault, fraud, connivance or negligence of any of the crow, they are bound to contribute to the reparation of the loss, in proportion to their wages. When the embezzlement is fixed on any individual, he is solely responsible; when it is made by the crew, or some of the crew, but the particular offender is unknown, and from the circumstances of the case, strong presumptions of guilt apply to the whole crew, all must contribute. The presumption of innocence is always in favor of the crew, and the guilt of the parties must be established, beyond all reasonable doubt, before they can be required to contribute. 1 Mason's R. 104; 4 B. & P. 347; 3 Johns. Rep. 17; 1 Marsh. Ins. 241; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Wesk. Ins. 194; 3 Kent, Com., 151; Hardin, 529.
Embezzler (n.) 盜用公款犯 One who embezzles.
Embezzler (n.) Someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use [syn: {embezzler}, {defalcator}, {peculator}].
Embillow (v. i.) To swell or heave like a wave of the sea. [R.] -- Lisle.
Embiotocoid (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to, or resembling, the {Embiotocid[ae]}. -- n. One of a family of fishes. ({Embiotocid[ae]}) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called {surf fish} and {viviparous fish}. See Illust. in Appendix.
Compare: Imbitter
Imbitter (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Imbittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Imbittering.] [Pref. im- in + bitter. Cf. Embitter.] [Written also embitter.] To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame? -- South.
Imbittered against each other by former contests. -- Bancroft.
Embitter (v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Embitter (v.) Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more" [syn: embitter, envenom, acerbate].
Embitterment (n.) The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
Embitterment (n.) The state of being embittered; "the embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him."
Emblanch (v. t.) To whiten. See Blanch. [Obs.] -- Heylin.
Emblazed (imp. & p. p.) of Emblaze.
Emblazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblaze.
Emblaze (v. t.) 點燃；使熾 To adorn with glittering embellishments.
No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. -- Pope.
Emblaze (v. t.) 用（紋章）裝飾；刻記；頌揚 To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. [Archaic]
The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. -- Milton.
Emblazoned (imp. & p. p.) of Emblazon.
Emblazoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblazon.
Emblazon (v. t.) 用（紋章）裝飾；刻記； 頌揚 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.
The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. -- Prescott.
Emblazon (v.) Decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones" [syn: color, colour, emblazon].
Emblazon (v.) Decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon].
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 (n. pl. ) of Emblazonry.
Emblazonry (n.) 紋章描書；紋飾 The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
Thine ancient standard's rich emblazonry. -- Trench.
Emblem (n.) [C] 象徵；標誌；徽章；符號；紋章圖案 Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] -- Milton.
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. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." -- Shak.
Emblem (n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Note: Writers and artists of the 17th century gave much attention and study to the composition of such emblems, and many collections of them were published.
Syn: Sign; symbol; type; device; signal; token.
Usage: Sign, Emblem, Symbol, Type. Sign is the generic word comprehending all significant representations. An emblem is a visible object representing another by a natural suggestion of characteristic qualities, or an habitual and recognized association; as, a circle, having no apparent beginning or end, is an emblem of eternity; a particular flag is the emblem of the country or ship which has adopted it for a sign and with which it is habitually associated. Between emblem and symbol the distinction is slight, and often one may be substituted for the other without impropriety. See Symbol. Thus, a circle is either an emblem or a symbol of eternity; a scepter, either an emblem or a symbol of authority; a lamb, either an emblem or a symbol of meekness. "An emblem is always of something simple; a symbol may be of something complex, as of a transaction . . . In consequence we do not speak of actions emblematic." -- C. J. Smith. A type is a representative example, or model, exhibiting the qualities common to all individuals of the class to which it belongs; as, the Monitor is a type of a class of war vessels.
Emblemed (imp. & p. p.) of Emblem.
Embleming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblem.
Emblem (v. t.) 象徵；用圖案（或符號）表示 To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.]
Emblemed by the cozening fig tree. -- Feltham.
Emblem (n.) Special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.
Emblem (n.) A visible symbol representing an abstract idea [syn: emblem, allegory].
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. Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
Emblematical (a.) Serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical].
Emblematiccize (v. t.) To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture. -- Walpole.
Emblematist (n.) A writer or inventor of emblems. -- Sir T. Browne.
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.
Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. -- Bp. Hurd.
Emblement (n.) (Law) 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. -- Wharton's Law Dict.
Emblemized (imp. & p. p.) of Emblemize.
Emblemizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emblemize.
Emblemize (v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. [R.]
Embloom (v. t.) To emblossom. -- Savage.
Emblossom (v. t.) To cover or adorn with blossoms.
On the white emblossomed spray. -- J. Cunningham.
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.
Embodiment (n.) A new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: embodiment, incarnation, avatar].
Embodiment (n.) A concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept; "a circle was the embodiment of his concept of life" [syn: shape, embodiment].
Embodiment (n.) Giving concrete form to an abstract concept.
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. [Written also imbody.]
Devils embodied and disembodied. -- Sir W. Scott.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. -- South.
Embody (v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.]
Firmly to embody against this court party. -- Burke.
Embody (v.) Represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate].
Embody (v.) Represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify].
Embody (v.) Represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period."
Embogue (v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]
Emboguing (n.) The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]
Emboil (v. i.) To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] -- Spenser.