| embed | (v) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war, Example: The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division |
| embellishment | (n) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail, Syn. embroidery, Example: the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings |
| embellishment | (n) a superfluous ornament |
| ember | (n) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering, Syn. coal |
| ember day | (n) a day set aside for fasting and prayer |
| emberiza | (n) Old World buntings, Syn. genus Emberiza |
| emberizidae | (n) buntings and some New World sparrows, Syn. subfamily Emberizinae, subfamily Emberizidae |
| embezzle | (v) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use, Syn. peculate, misappropriate, defalcate, malversate, Example: The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family |
| embezzlement | (n) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else, Syn. misapplication, defalcation, peculation, misappropriation |
| embezzler | (n) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use, Syn. peculator, defalcator |
| Embeam | v. t. To make brilliant with beams. [ R. ] G. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Embed | v. t. |
| embedded | adj. |
| Embedment | n. The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Embellish | v. t. |
| Embellisher | n. One who embellishes. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Embellishment | n. [ Cf. F. embellissement. ] In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ] The graces and embellishments of the exterior man. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ember | a. [ OE. ymber, AS. ymbren, ymbryne, prop., running around, circuit; ymbe around + ryne a running, fr. rinnan to run. See Amb-, and Run. ] Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year;
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| Ember | n. [ OE. emmeres, emeres, AS. &unr_;myrie; akin to Icel. eimyrja, Dan. emmer, MHG. eimere; cf. Icel. eimr vapor, smoke. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Ember-goose | n. [ Cf. Norw. embergaas, hav-imber, hav-immer, Icel. himbrin, himbrimi. ] (Zoöl.) The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. |