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a. Capable of being climbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

or /mhw>, n. [ See Gimmal, n. ] A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. --
Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embalm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put under a ban. [ R. ] Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form into a band or bands. “Imbanded nations.” J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imbanked p. pr. & vb. n. Imbanking. ] [ Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. Embank. ] To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having banners. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bar in; to secure. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To imbar their crooked titles. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Embargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. See Embark. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To store in a barn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To diminish in value. [ Obs. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embase. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bastardize; to debase. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. im- in + bathe. Cf. Embathe. ] To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse. [ 1913 Webster ]

And gave her to his daughters to imbathe
In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Embay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A cooling periodical wind in the Isle of Cyprus, blowing from the northwest from eight o'clock, A. M., to the middle of the day or later. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. limbatus, fr. limbus border, edge. See Limbus. ] (Bot. & Zool.) Bordered, as when one color is surrounded by an edging of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Reembark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It., literally, one who leaps or mounts upon a bench; saltare to leap + in in, upon + banco a bench. ] A mountebank; a quack. [ Obs. ] [ Written also santinbanco. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The quillback. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kettledrum. See Tymbal. [ 1913 Webster ]