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Embezzle

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.

embezzled

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.

Embezzlement

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.

Embillow

To swell or heave like a wave of the sea.

Embiotocidae

a natural family of viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes.

Embiotocoid

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.

Embitter

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

Embitterment

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

Emblaze

To adorn with glittering embellishments.

Emblazon

To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

Emblazoner

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

Emblazoning

The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.

Emblazonry

The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.

Emblem

To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.

Emblematical Emblematic

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.

Emblematize

To represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize.

Emblement

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.

Emblemize

To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.

Embodiment

The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

Embody

To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

Embogue

To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.

Emboguing

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged.

Emboil

To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

Emboitement

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.

Embolden

To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.

Embolism

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.

Embolismal

Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

Embolismical Embolismic

Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

Embolite

A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

Embolus

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

Emboly

Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

Embonpoint

Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Emborder

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

Embosom

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.

Emboss

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

Embossed

Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

Embossment

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

Embouchure

The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

Embow

To bend like a bow; to curve.

Embower

To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. To lodge or rest in a bower.

Embowl

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.

Embox

To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.

Embrace

Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

Embracery

An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

Embracive

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.

Embrew

To imbrue; to stain with blood.

Embrocate

To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

Embrocation

The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.

Embroider

To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

Embroidery

Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.

Embroilment

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.

Embronze

To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.

Embrown

To give a brown color to; to imbrown.

Embryo

Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

Embryogeny

The production and development of an embryo.

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.

Embryonal

Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.

Embryonic

Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.

Embryoplastic

Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.

Embryotomy

The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.

Embryotroph

The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.

Embulk

To enlarge in the way of bulk.

Emburse

To furnish with money; to imburse.

Embush

To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.

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