enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; as, found pebbles embedded in the silt; stone containing many embedded fossils; as, peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp.
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The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.
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.
One who embellishes.
The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
The loon or great northern diver. See Loon.
Ember days.
To make better.
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.
taken for one's own use in violation of a trust; -- of money; as, the banker absconded with embezzled payroll; the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars.
The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's money; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.
One who embezzles.
To swell or heave like a wave of the sea.
a natural family of viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes.
Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocid/. One of a family of fishes (Embiotocid/) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fish and viviparous fish. See Illust. in Appendix.
To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.
To whiten. See Blanch.
To adorn with glittering embellishments.
To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
An emblazoning.
The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
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.
To render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.
A writer or inventor of emblems.
To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.
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.
To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
To emblossom.
To cover or adorn with blossoms.
One who embodies.
The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.
To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.
The hypothesis that all living things proceed from pre/xisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
One who emboldens.
Embolismic.
Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.
Embolismic.
Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.
A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.
Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.
Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.
To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.
To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
One who embosses.
The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
To bottle.
The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
To bend like a bow; to curve.
To disembowel.
One who takes out the bowels.
Disembowelment.
To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. To lodge or rest in a bower.
To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.
To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.
An ambush.
Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
A clasp in the arms; embrace.
One guilty of embracery.
One who embraces.
An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.
Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.
To braid up, as hair.
The branching forth, as of trees.
To confuse; to entangle.
A splay of a door or window.
To inspire with bravery.
To harden.
To braid.
The act of breathing in; inspiration.
To imbrue; to stain with blood.
To brighten.
To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
See Imbroglio.
To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.
decorated with embroidery.
One who embroiders.
a woman who embroiders; a woman embroiderer.
Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
See Embroilment.
One who embroils.
The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.
To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.
To inclose in a brothel.
To give a brown color to; to imbrown.
To embroider; to adorn.
See Imbrue, Embrew.
To brutify; to imbrute.
Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.
Pertaining to the development of an embryo.
The production and development of an embryo.
The formation of an embryo.
The general description of embryos.
Of or pertaining to embryology.
One skilled in embryology.
The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
See Embryo.
Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
Embryonic.
In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.
Having an embryo.
Like an embryo in form.
Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
Embryonic.
The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
Embryonic; undeveloped.
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