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‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ko`lla glue + 'e`mbolon wedge, peg; -- so called from their having collophores. ] (Zool.) The division of Thysanura which includes Podura, and allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembodied p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying. ] 1. To divest of the body or corporeal existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disembogued p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing. ] [ Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. Debouch, Embogue. ] 1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels disembogues his waves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject; to cast forth. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To separate from the bosom. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Embowel. ] 1. To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R. ] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disemboweling, or state of being disemboweled; evisceration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. [ Poetic ] Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Embodied p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying. ] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [ Written also imbody. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [ Written also imbody. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Disembogue. ] To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To boil with anger; to effervesce. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. emboîter to fit in, insert; en in + boîte box. ] (Biol.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emboldened p. pr. & vb. n. Emboldening ] To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who emboldens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; to throw in. See Embolism. ] 1. Embolismic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Biol.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. embolismus, from Gr. &unr_; to throw or put in, insert; cf. &unr_; intercalated: cf. F. embolisme. See Emblem. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intercalated time. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

{ } a. Embolismic.

{ } a. [ Cf. F. embolismique. ] Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gr. &unr_; something thrown in between. ] (Min.) A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Emboli [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_; pointed so as to be put or thrust in, fr. &unr_; to throw, thrust, or put in. See Emblem. ] 1. Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a putting into. ] (Biol.) Embolic invagination. See under Invagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. en bon point in good condition. See Bon, and Point. ] Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + border: cf. OF. emborder. ] To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Written also imbosom. ] 1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. [ 1913 Webster ]

His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some tender flower . . . .
Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Embossed p. pr. & vb. n. Embossing. ] [ Pref. em- (L. in) + boss: cf. OF. embosser to swell in bunches. ] 1. To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. [ 1913 Webster ]

Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed
Androgeo's death. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Etymology uncertain. ] To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Pr. & Sp. emboscar, It. imboscare, F. embusquer, and E. imbosk. ] 1. To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. [ 1913 Webster ]

A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [ Obs. ] S. Butler. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Swollen; protuberant. [ Obs. ] “An embossed carbuncle.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embosses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. “The embossment of the figure.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bottle. [ R. ] Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. emboucher to put to the mouth; pref. em- (L. in) + bouche the mouth. Cf. Embouge, Debouch. ] 1. The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) (a) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument. (b) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bend like a bow; to curve. “Embowed arches.” [ Obs. or R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emboweled r Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling. ] 1. To disembowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

The boar . . . makes his trough
In your emboweled bosoms. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To imbed; to hide in the inward parts; to bury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or deep emboweled in the earth entire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes out the bowels. [ Written also emboweller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disembowelment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [ Written also imbower. ] [ Poetic ] Milton. -- v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [ Poetic ] “In their wide boughs embow'ring. ” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]