The poets contribute to the explication of reverses purely emblematical, or when the persons are allegorical. Addison. In the well framed models, With emblematick skill and mystick order, Thou shew'dst where towers on battlements should rise, Where gates should open, or where walls should compass. Prior. hanker's drafts, or other valuable security, was or were no otherwise received into the possession of his or their servants, clerk, or other person so employed; and every such offender, his adviser, procurer, aider, or abettor, being thereof lawfully convicted or attainted, shall be liable to be transported to such part beyond the seas as his majesty, by and with the advice of his privy council, shall appoint, for any term not exceeding fourteen years, in the discretion of the court before whom such offender shall be convicted or adjudged. EMBLAZE, v. a. Fr. blasonner. See EMBLAZON, v. a. BLAZE. To adorn with EMBLAZONRY, n. s. glittering embellishments; to exhibit in glaring colors, and particularly with heraldic honors or ensigns. Nor shall this blood be wiped from thy point, But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat, T'emblaze the honour which thy master got. Shakspeare. We find Augustus, for some petty conquest emblazoned by the poets to the highest pitch. Hukewill on Providence, He from the glittering staff unfurled Him round Milton's Paradise Lost. Pope. Somerville. Now high in air, the imperial standard waves, Fr-embleme; Ital. Span. Portug. and Lat. emblema; Gr. εμβλημα, from the verh eußaeodai, to insert. i.e. ɛv and Baλλw to throw. An ornament inserted or thrown into a piece of workmanship: to represent by emblems: emblematic and emblematical are representing pictorially, or by emblems; emblematist he who invents or uses them. She had all the royal makings of a queen, The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems, Laid nobly on her. Shakspeare. Henry VII. Poets can boast of nothing but a lean visage peering out of a seam-rent suit, the very emblems of beggary. Ben Jonson. If you draw your beast in an emblem, shew a landscape of the country natural to the beast. Peacham on Drawing. Gentle Thames, The mighty master's emblem, in whose face Sate meekness, heightened with majestick grace. Denham. These fables are still maintained by symbolical writers, emblematists, and heralds. Browne's Vulgar Erreurs. Others have spoken emblematically and hierogliphically, as the Egyptians; and the phoenix was the hierogliphick of the sun. The primitive sight of elements doth fitly emblem that of opinions. Glanville's Scepsis. Id. He took a great stone, and put it up under the oak, emblematically joining the two great elements of maSwift. sonry. Some when they die, die all; their mouldering Is but an emblem of their memories; Sweet stream, that winds through yonder glade, Now as these were emblematic exhibitions, they must have been as well adapted to the purposes of sculpture as of poetry, which indeed does not seem to have been uncommon, since one compartment of figures in the shield of Æneas represented the regions of Tartarus. Darwin. Instructive emblem of this mortal state! Where scenes as various every hour arise And, bright around with quivering beams beset, An EMBLEM, is a kind of painted ænigma, which, representing some obvious history, instructs us in some moral truth. See ENIGMA, &c. Such is that very significant image of Scævola holding his hand in the fire; with the words, Agere et pati fortiter Romanum est, To do and suffer courageously is Roman.' The emblem is somewhat plainer than the ænigma. Gale defines emblem an ingenious picture, representing one thing to the eye, and another to the understanding. The Greeks also gave the name ExBLEMS, εμβλήματα, from εμβαλλειν, to insert, to inlayed or Mosaic works, and even to all kinds of ornaments of vases, moveables, garments, &c. Cicero, reproaching Verres with having plundered statues and fine wrought works from the Sicilians, calls the ornaments fixed to them, and which on occasion might be separated, emblemata. EMBLEMENTS, in English law, Fr. from emblaver, q. d semer en blé, to sow with wheat, is a term strictly signifying the profits of lands sown; though sometimes used more largely for any profits arising, and growing naturally from the ground; as grass, fruit, &c. If a tenant for life sow the land, and die before harvest, his representatives shall have the emblements to compensate for the labor and expense of tilling, manuring, and sowing the lands, and not he in reversion. But if the tenant for and also for the encouragement of husbandry; years sow the land, and before severance the term expires, or the estate for life be determined by the tenant's own act, as by forfeiture for waste committed, or if a tenant during widowhood think proper to marry, then the lessor, or he in reversion shall have the emblements, and not the lessee. The advantages of emblements are extended to the parochial clergy by 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 11. All the cases of emblements turn upon the point of uncertainty; since the tenant could not possibly know when his landlord would determine his will, and therefore could make no provision against it; and having sown the land, which is for the good of the public, upon a reasonable presumption, the law will not suffer him to be a loser by it. But it is otherwise, and upon reason equally good, where the tenant himself determines the will; for in this case, the landlord shall have the profits of the land. Co. Litt. 55, 56. Emblements are distinct from the real estate in the land, and are subject to many, though not all, the incidents attending personal chattels. They were devisable by testament before the statute of wills (Perk. sec. 412); and at the death of the owner, shall vest in his executor, and not his heir; they are forfeitable by outlawry in a personal action (Bro. Abr. tit. emblements, 21; 5 Rep. 116); and by the statute 11 Geo. II. cap. 19, though not by common law (1 Roll. Abr. 666), they may be distrained for rent arrear. Although the emblements are assets in the hands of the executor, are forfeitable upon outlawry, and distrainable for rent, they are not in other respects considered as personal chattels; and particularly, they are not the object of larceny, before they are severed from the ground. 3 Inst. 109. Where a lord enters on his tenant for a forfeiture, he shall have the corn on the ground. 4 Rep. 21. Though if a feme copyholder for her widowhood sows the land, and before severance takes husband, so that her estate is determined, the lord shall have the emblements; yet if such a feme copyholder, durante viduitate, leases for one year according to custom, and the lessee sows the land, and afterwards the copyholder takes husband, the lessee shall have the corn. If a husband holds lands for life, in right of his wife, and sow the land, and after she dies before severance, he shall have the emblements. Dyer, 316. 1 Nels. Ab. 701. And where the wife has an estate for years, life, or in fee, and the husband sows the land, and dies, his executors shall have the corn. 1 Nels. 702. But if the husband and wife are joint-tenants, though the husband sow the land with corn, and dies before ripe, the wife, and not his executors, shall have the corn, she being the surviving jointtenant. Co. Lit. 199. A widow endowed with lands sown, shall have the emblements, and not the heir. 2 Inst. 81. And a tenant in dower may dispose of corn sown on the ground; or it may go to her executors, if she die before severance. 2 Inst. 80, 81. If a tenant by statute-merchant sow the land, and before severance a casual profit happens, by which he is satisfied, yet he shall have the corn. Lands sown are delivered in execution upon an extent, the person to whom delivered shall have the corn on the ground. 2 Leon. 54. And judgment was given against a person, and then he sowed the land, and brought a writ of error to re verse the judgment, but it was affirmed; and adjudged that the recoverer shall have the corn. 2 Bulst. 213. When a disseisor sows the land, and afterwards cuts the corn, but before it is carried away the disseisee enters, the disseisee shall have the corn. Dyer, 31. 11 Rep. 52. A person seised in fee of land dies, having a daughter, and his wife privement enseint with a son; the daughter enters and sows the land, and before severance of the corn, the son is born; in this case the daughter shall have the corn, her estate being lawful, and defeated by the act of God; and it is for the public good that the land should be sown. If a man seised in fee-simple sows land, and then devises the land by will, and dies before severance; the devisee shall have the corn; and not the devisor's executors. Winch. 52. Cro. Eliz. 61. If a person devises his lands sown, and says nothing of the corn, the corn shall go with the land to the devisee: and when a man seised of land, in fee or in tail, sows it, and dies without will, it goes to the executor, and not to the heir. 10 Ed. IV. 1 b. 21 H. VI. 30 a. 37 H. VI. 35 b. A devisee for life dies, he in remainder shall have the emblements with the land. EMBODY, v. a. & v. n. Em and body. To put into or invest with a bodily, corporeal, or material shape; to draw together soldiers into a body; to be united in one body or mass. Eke enrooted deep must be that tree, Whose big embodied braunches shall not lie, Till they to heaven's hight forth stretched bee. Spenser. Faerie Queene. The local militia when not drawn out and embodied, shall be entitled to the same pay, clothing and allowances, as the regular militia are when not embodied; and when drawn out and embodied, shall be entitled to the same pay, clothing, and allowances, militia forces when drawn out and embodied. for themselves and families, as his majesty's other Local Militia Act, 48 Geo. III. c. 3. not our Lord have shewn them their error? If there be no such thing as a disembodied spirit would Instead of this he confirms them in their opinion, &c. Clarke on Luke xxiv. 37. EMBOLD'EN, v. a. & v. n. To encourage or be encouraged; to strengthen or feel confirmed in resolution. Shall vain words have an end; or what emboldenJob xvi. 3. eth thee that thou answerest? emboldened to eat those things which are offered to Shall not the conscience of him which is weak be idols ? 1 Cor. viii. 10. Yet nathemore by his bold hartie speach Could his blood-frozen hart emboldened bee, But through his boldness rather feare did reach. Spenser. Faerie Queene. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. Shakspeare. E'MBOLISM, n. s. Gr. Eußoλiopos, from r and ẞaw.. See EMBLEM. Intercalation; insertion of days or years to produce regularity and equation of time. The civil constitutions of the year were after differ. ent manners in several nations; some using the sun's year, but in divers fashions; and some following the moon, finding out embolisms or equations, even to the addition of whole months, to make all as even as they could. Holder on Time. EMBOLISM, OF EMBOLISMUS. As the Greeks made use of the lunar year, which is only 354 days, in order to bring it to the solar, which is 365 days, they had every two or three years an embolism, i. e. they added a fifteenth lunar month every second or third year, which additional month they called μßoλipatos, embolimæus, because inserted, or intercalated. E'MBOLUS, n. s. Gr. Eußoloc. Any thing inserted and acting in another, as the sucker in a pump. Our members make a sort of an hydraulick engine, in which a chemical liquor, resembling blood, is driven through elastick channels by an embolus, like the heart. Arbuthnot. EMBO'SOM, v. a. Em and bosom. To receive into the bosom, heart, or affections: hence to enclose; to shelter. His house embosomed in the grove, Pope. EMBOSS', v. a. Fr. emboister, embosquer; Ital. imboscare. To enclose, as in a box or bush. The knight his thrilliant spear again essayed Milton's Agonistes. To EMBOSS', v. a. & v. n. Fr. embosser, bosse, EMBOSS'MENT. S'a protuberance. cause to rise or swell in tumors, or other projections: hence to sculpture in relief. Oh, he is more mad Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly Was never so embost. Shakspeare. Timon hath made his everlasting mansion A plague sore, or embossed carbuncle, I wish also, in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents and alleys, enough for four to walk abreast; which I would have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks or embossments. Bacon's Essays. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss, And all his people. Milton's Paradise Lost. When a deer is hard run and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embost: a dog also, when he is strained with hard running, especially upon hard ground, will have his knees swelled, and then he is said to be embost, from bosse, French, a tumour. Hanmer. All crowd in heaps, as at a night alarm The bees drive out upon each other's backs, T'emboss their hives in clusters. Dryden. Don Sebastian. Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death, and offerings to his ghost. Id. Virgil. They are at a loss about the word pendentis; some fancy it expresses only the great embossment of the figure, others believe it hung off the helmet in alto relievo. Addison on Italy. Somerville's Chase. While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship-first a seedling, hid in grass; Then twig; then sapling; and, as century rolled Of girth enormous, with moss-cushioned root Slow after century, a giant-bulk Upheaved above the soil, and sides embossed With prominent wens globose-till at the last The rottenness, which time is charged to inflict On other mighty ones, found also thee. Cowper. EMBOTHRIUM, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and tetrandria class of plants: stamina four very short filaments; antheræ large, CAL. none, COR. four linear-oblique petals; oblong, seated within the cavity of the petal. Pericarp a round unilocular follicle, sharpened at both ends: SEED four or five in number, eggshaped, and compressed. Species eight elegant shrubs of New Holland and South America, bearing white and red flowers. EMBOTTLE, v. a. Fr. bouteille. To include in bottles; to bottle. Milton's Paradise Lost. Fossils and minerals that the embowelled earth Philips. Displays. EMBOW'ER, v. n. & v. a. Em and bower. To receive or dwell within a bower; to build as a bower; to encircle as within a bower. The small birds, in their wide boughs embourering Chaunted their sundry tunes. Spenser. On the mingling boughs they sit embowered All the hot noon. Thomson. Look where he comes-in this embowered alcove Stand close concealed, and see a statue move : Lips busy, and eyes fixed, foot falling slow, Arms hanging idly down, hands clasped below, Interpret to the marking eye distress, Such as its symptoms can alone express. EMBRACE', v. a., v. n. & n. s. EMBRACE MENt, n.s. brachium, the arm. EMBRA CER. Cowper. Fr. embrasser; Ital. ab bruciare; Lat. To enclose, or take within the arms; to fondle; hence to seize with ardor, and to comprehend generally: as a neuter verb it is used by Shakspeare for to join in ar embrace. As a noun embrace and embracement are alike, a fond clasping or enclosing within the arms; hence admission or reception; comprehension; enclosure. And fyrst vppon the louely shall she smile, And frendly on the cast her wandering eves, Embrace the in her armes, and for a whyle, Put the and kepe the in a fooles paradise. Sir T. More. Id. I would freelier rejoice in that absence, wherein he won honour, than in the embracements of his bed, where he would shew most love. Id. Coriolanus. I take it, your own business calls on you, And you embrace the occasion to depart. Id. The parts in man's body easily reparable, as spirits, blood, and flesh, die in the embracements of the parts hardly reparable, as bones, nerves, and membranes. Bacon's Natural History. At first, her mother earth she holdeth dear, And doth embrace the world, and worldly things. Davies. Nor can her wide embracements filled be. Id. Yet are they the greatest embracers of pleasure of any other upon earth; and they esteem of pearls as pebbles, so they may satisfy their gust, in point of pleasure or revenge. Howel. Thames, the most loved of all the ocean's sons By his old sire, to his embraces runs. Denham. Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced. Ah! little thought we 'twas our last! Burns. EMBRA'SURE, n. s. Fr. embrasure. An aperture in the wall, through which the cannon is pointed; battlement. EMBRASURE, in architecture, the enlargement made of the aperture of a door or window, on the inside of the wall; its use being to give the greater play for the opening of the door or casement, or to admit the more light. EMBRAVE, v. a. From brave. Το decorate; to embellish; to deck; to grace; to adorn. Not now in use. So, both agree their bodies to engrave; The great earth's womb they open to the sky, And, with sad cypress, seemly it embrave. Faerie Queene. EM'BROCATE, v. a. Fr.embrocation, from EMBROCA'TION, n. s. 3 Gr. εμβρέχειν i. e. εν and Boɛxe, to damp or wet. To moisten with medicinal applications: the act of so doing; or the lotion is an embrocation. I returned her a glass with oil of roses and vinegar, to embrocate her arm. Wiseman on Inflammation. We endeavoured to ease by discutient and emollient cataplasms, and embrocations of various sorts. Id. Surgery. • An EMBROCATION, in surgery and pharmacy, is an external kind of remedy, which consists in an irrigation of the part affected, with some proper liquor, as oils, spirits, &c., by means of a woollen or linen cloth, or a sponge, dipped in the same. EMBROIDER, v. a. Fr. broder, a comEMBROIDERER, n. s. pound of em and BROIEMBROIDERY, N. S. DER, which see. To border or decorate with ornaments; to diversify with raised needlework: embroiderer is the party executing this kind of work; and embroi dery, the work performed: hence also, variegated colors generally. Blue silk and purple, the work of the embroiderer. Write, Eccles. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government, but ignorance though never so well born, should never be admitted to spoil the public business. Saville. Such an accumulation of favours is like a kind of embroidering, or lifting of one favour upon another. Wotton. Envy rages as much in a sordid affected dress, as in all the silks and embroideries which the excess of the age and the folly of youth delight to be adorned with. Clarendon. Embroidered so with flowers it had stood That it became a garden of a wood. Waller. Let no virgin be allowed to receive her lover, but in a suit of her own embroidering. Spectator, No. 606. If the natural embroidery of the meadows were helpt and improved by art, a man might make a pretty landskip of his own possessions. Id. No. 414. Next these a youth.ful train their vows expressed, With feathers crowned, with gay embroidery dressed. Pope. Embroidered purple clothes the golden beds, This slave the floor, and that the table spreads. How sweetly mutable yon orient hues, As morn's fair hand her opening roses strews; How bright, when Iris blending many a ray, Binds in embroidered wreath the brow of day. Id. Darwin. ment of the Upper Alps. It is walled, and las EM'BRYO, n. s. > Fr. embryon; Span. EMBRYOT'IC, adj. Sone; Lat. embryo; Gr. εμβρυον, i. e. εν in (γαστρος, the belly) βρυον, growing. Any thing in an imperfect but growing state, applied particularly to the human fœtus. lerated, if the embryo ripeneth and perfecteth sooner. The bringing forth of living creatures may be acce EMBROIDERY is a work in gold, silver, or silk thread, wrought by the needle upon cloth, stuffs, or muslin, into various figures. In embroidering stuffs, the work is performed in a kind of loom; because the more the piece is stretched, the easier it is worked. As to muslin, they spread it upon a pattern ready designed; and sometimes, before it is stretched upon the pattern, it is starched to make it more easy to handle. Embroidery on the loom is less tedious than the other, in which, while they work flowers, all the threads of the muslin, both lengthways and breadthways, must be continually counted; but, on the other hand, this last is much richer in points, and susceptible of greater variety. Cloths too much milled are scarcely susceptible of this ornament, and in effect we seldom see them embroidered. The thinnest muslins are left for this purpose; and they are embroidered to the greatest perfection in Saxony. By stat. 22 Geo. II. c. 36, no foreign embroidery, or gold and silver brocade, shall be imported, upon pain of being forfeited and burnt, and penalty of £100 for each piece. No person shall sell, or expose to sale, any foreign embroidery, gold or silver thread, lace, fringe, brocade, or make up the properly called an embryon. same into any garment, on pain of having it forfeited and burnt, and penalty of £100. All such embroidery, &c., may be seized and burnt; and the mercer, &c., in whose custody it was found, shal forfeit £100. EMBROIL, v. a. Fr. brouiller. To disturb; confuse; distract; throw into commotion; to involve in dissension or discord. I had no passion, design, or preparation to embroil Rumour next, and chance, Milton. When she found her venom spread so far, Dryden. Supposing a government wherein the person of the chief magistrate is not thus sacred; yet this doctrine of the lawfulness of resisting all unlawful exercises of his power, will not upon every slight occasion indanger him, or embroil the government; for where the injured party may be relieved, and his damages repaired by appeal to the law, there can be no pretence for force. Locke. The Christian antiquities at Rome, though of a fresher date, are so embroiled with fable and legend, that one receives but little satisfaction. Addison on Italy. EMBROIL', v. a. Em and broil, to roast on the fire. See BROIL. That knowledge, for which we boldly attempt to rifle God's cabinet, should, like the coal from the altar, serve only to embroil and consume the sacrilegious invaders. Decay of Piety. Brothel, brodel. To EMBROTHEL, v. a. enclose in a brothel. Bacon. The earth was formed, but in the womb as yet Milton's Paradise Lost. Hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms. Id. An exclusion before conformation, before the birth can bear the name of the parent, or be so much as Browne's Vulgar Errours. And yet if it comes in question, whether a plant, that lies ready formed in the seed, have life; whein a swoon without sense or motion, be alive, or no? ther the embryo of an egg before incubation, or a man it is easy to perceive, that a clear distinct settled idea does not always accompany the use of so known a word, as that of life is. Locke. In that dark womb are the signs and rudiments of an embryo world Burnet's Theory. When the crude embryo careful nature breeds, See how she works, and how her work proceeds. Blackmore. The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo. Swift. While the promised fruit Some, bounded to a district-space, And careful note each opening grace, Burna Sylphs! as you hover on ethereal wing, Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save : It has the earliest intelligence of intended preferments that will reflect honour on the patrons; and embryo promotions of modest gentlemen, who know nothing of the matter themselves. Sheridan, EME, n. s. Sax. came. Uncle. Now ου solete. See EAME. Whilst they were young, Cassibelan their eme, Who on him took the royal diadem, Spenser. |