Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 20

Emboil (v. t.) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.

Emboitement (n.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another.

Emboldened (imp. & p. p.) of Embolden

Emboldening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embolden

Embolden (v. t.) To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.

Emboldener (n.) One who emboldens.

Embolic (a.) Embolismic.

Embolic (a.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.

Embolic (a.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

Embolism (n.) 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.

Embolism (n.) Intercalated time.

Embolism (n.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

Embolismal (a.) Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

Embolismatic (a.) Alt. of Embolismatical

Embolismatical (a.) Embolismic.

Embolismic (a.) Alt. of Embolismical

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

Embolite (n.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

Emboli (pl. ) of Embolus

Embolus (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

Embolus (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

Emboly (n.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

Embonpoint (n.) Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Emborder (v. t.) To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

Embosom (v. t.) To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster.

Embosom (v. t.) To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something.

Embossed (imp. & p. p.) of Emboss

Embossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emboss

Emboss (v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

Emboss (v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.

Emboss (v. t.) To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

Emboss (v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

Emboss (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

Emboss (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

Embossed (a.) Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

Embossed (a.) Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.

Embossed (a.) Swollen; protuberant.

Embosser (n.) One who embosses.

Embossment (n.) The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

Embossment (n.) A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect.

Embottle (v. t.) To bottle.

Embouchure (n.) The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

Embouchure (n.) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

Embouchure (n.) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

Embow (v. t.) To bend like a bow; to curve.

Emboweled (imp. & p. p.) of Embowel

Embowelled () of Embowel

Emboweling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embowel

Embowelling () of Embowel

Embowel (v. t.) To disembowel.

Embowel (v. t.) To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury.

Emboweler (n.) One who takes out the bowels.

Embowelment (n.) Disembowelment.

Embower (v. t.) To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.

Embower (v. i.) To lodge or rest in a bower.

Embowl (v. t.) To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to.

Embox (v. t.) To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.

Emboyssement (n.) An ambush.

Embrace (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.

Embraced (imp. & p. p.) of Embrace

Embracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embrace

Embrace (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

Embrace (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.

Embrace (n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

Embrace (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.

Embrace (n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

Embrace (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

Embrace (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.

Embrace (v. i.) To join in an embrace.

Embrace (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

Embracement (n.) A clasp in the arms; embrace.

Embracement (n.) State of being contained; inclosure.

Embracement (n.) Willing acceptance.

Embraceor (n.) One guilty of embracery.

Embracer (n.) One who embraces.

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

Embracive (a.) Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing.

Embraid (v. t.) To braid up, as hair.

Embraid (v. t.) To upbraid.

Embranchment (n.) The branching forth, as of trees.

Embrangle (v. t.) To confuse; to entangle.

Embrasure (n.) An embrace.

Embrasure (n.) A splay of a door or window.

Embrasure (n.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.

Embrave (v. t.) To inspire with bravery.

Embrave (v. t.) To decorate; to make showy and fine.

Embrawn (v. t.) To harden.

Embread (v. t.) To braid.

Embreathement (n.) The act of breathing in; inspiration.

Embrew (v. t.) To imbrue; to stain with blood.

Embright (v. t.) To brighten.

Embrocated (imp. & p. p.) of Embrocate

Embrocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embrocate

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

Embrocation (n.) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.

Embrocation (n.) The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.

Embroglio (n.) See Imbroglio.

Embroidered (imp. & p. p.) of Embroider

Embroidering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embroider

Embroider (v. t.) To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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