embo

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

v. i. To boil with anger; to effervesce. [ 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 ]