<B>embolization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) the appearance of an embolism; obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus. </DL>
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<B>embolize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-lized,</B> <B>-lizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) to cut off from the circulation by embolism. </DL>
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<B>embolon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the beak of an ancient Greek or Roman warship, made of metal, and sharpened to pierce an enemy vessel below the water line. </DL>
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<B>embolum, </B>noun. =embolon.</DL>
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<B>embolus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-li.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) a clot, globule of fat, air bubble, or the like, carried in the bloodstream. It sometimes blocks up a blood vessel. </DL>
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<B>emboly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> invagination; the process of forming the double-layered gastrula. </DL>
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<B>embonpoint, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) fatness; plumpness. <BR> <I>Ex. It was an impudence for any woman to carry on herself an embonpoint so flagrant (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>emborder, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to furnish with or form into a border. </DL>
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<B>embosom, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to surround; enclose; envelop. <BR> <I>Ex. the masses of noble wood embosoming the villages (Charles Kingsley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to embrace or cherish. </DL>
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<B>emboss</B> (1), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to decorate with a design or pattern that stands out from the surface. <BR> <I>Ex. Our coins are embossed with letters and figures.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to stand out from the surface. <BR> <I>Ex. He ran his fingers over the letters to see if they had been embossed.</I> noun <B>embosser.</B> </DL>
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<B>emboss</B> (2), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete.) <DD><B> 1. </B>to drive (a hunted animal) to exhaustion. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause to foam at the mouth. </DL>
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<B>embossment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a figure, carved or molded in relief. <DD><B> 2. </B>a part that sticks out; bulge. </DL>
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<B>embouchement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) the opening of one duct, channel, or vessel into another. </DL>
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<B>embouchure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the mouth of a river. <DD><B> 2. </B>the widening of a river valley into a plain. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) <DD><B> a. </B>the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. <DD><B> b. </B>the shaping and use of the lips or tongue in playing such an instrument. <BR> <I>Ex. He picked up the trumpet without help, and the mellophone was no trouble at all after that, since it has the same fingering and a similar embouchure (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>embourgeoisement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the process of becoming bourgeois; adoption of bourgeois ideas or practices. <BR> <I>Ex. But China started from so far back that it will be long before embourgeoisement sets in there too (Manchester Guardian). So these offspring shared in the eventually growing prosperity and general embourgeoisement of the region (E. Gellner).</I> </DL>
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<B>embow, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to bend or curve into a bow; arch; vault. </DL>
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<B>embowel, </B>transitive verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-elling</B> or (especially British) <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=disembowel.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to put into the bowels, or the innermost parts. </DL>
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<B>embower, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to enclose in a shelter of leafy branches. <BR> <I>Ex. A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms (Washington Irving).</I> </DL>
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<B>embowerment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of embowering or of placing within a bower. </DL>
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<B>embrace</B> (1), verb, <B>-braced,</B> <B>-bracing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to fold in the arms to show love or friendship; hold in the arms; hug. <BR> <I>Ex. The mother embraced her baby.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to take up; take for oneself; accept. <BR> <I>Ex. She eagerly embraced the offer of a trip to Europe. Some African tribes have embraced the Christian religion. American students have increasingly come to embrace a new value system which ... places human life over all other considerations (Joseph Rhodes).</I> (SYN) adopt, espouse. <DD><B> 3. </B>to include; take in; contain. <BR> <I>Ex. The cat family embraces cats, lions, tigers, and similar animals.</I> (SYN) comprise. <DD><B> 4. </B>to surround; enclose. <BR> <I>Ex. Vines embraced the hut. You'll see your Rome embraced with fire (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) encircle. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) to take in with the eye or mind. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) to undertake. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to hug one another. <BR> <I>Ex. The two girls embraced.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a clasping in the arms; hug. <BR> <I>Ex. The little boy freed himself from his aunt's embrace. (Figurative.) Wrapt in the cold embraces of the tomb (Alexander Pope).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a taking up or accepting. <BR> <I>Ex. the tribes' embrace of Christianity, their willing embrace of new values and ideas.</I> </DL>
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<B>embrace</B> (2), transitive verb, <B>-braced,</B> <B>-bracing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) to attempt to influence (a court or jury) illegally. </DL>
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<B>embraceable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be embraced; inviting an embrace. </DL>
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<B>embracement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an embracing. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) ... some of the foibles that attend mass embracement of art and culture (Saturday Review).</I> </DL>
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<B>embraceor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a person who tries to influence a court or jury illegally. </DL>
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<B>embracer</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who embraces. </DL>
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<B>embracer</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a person who practices embracery; embraceor. </DL>
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<B>embracery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) the attempt to influence a court or jury illegally. <BR> <I>Ex. A summons alleging embracery, a charge which, it is believed, has not come before an English court since 1611, will be heard at Leeds Magistrates' Court on January 20 (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>embracive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> completely surrounding; encompassing. <BR> <I>Ex. The totalitarian state imposes embracive political and economic controls.</I> </DL>
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<B>embranchment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or state of branching off or out. <BR> <I>Ex. the embranchment of a river.</I> (SYN) ramification. <DD><B> 2. </B>a branch. </DL>
<B>embranglement </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> confusion; entanglement. <BR> <I>Ex. The commissioner of parks is engaged in another jurisdictional embranglement.</I> </DL>
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<B>embrasure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an opening in a wall for a gun, with sides that spread outward to permit the gun to swing through a greater arc. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Architecture.) a slanting off of the wall at an oblique angle on the inner sides of a window or door. </DL>
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<B>embrittle, </B>transitive verb, <B>-tled,</B> <B>-tling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to cause (a metal) to become brittle. <BR> <I>Ex. Some--such as liquid oxygen--are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>embrittlement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the process of making or being made brittle. <BR> <I>Ex. Phosphorus in coking coals causes embrittlement of iron.</I> </DL>
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<B>embrocate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cated,</B> <B>-cating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to bathe and rub with liniment or lotion. </DL>
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<B>embrocation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a liniment or lotion used for bathing and rubbing the body. <BR> <I>Ex. He went to Milan ... with a suspected touch of pleurisy. From then on his mother bought the embrocation wholesale (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>embroglio, </B>noun, pl. <B>-glios.</B> =imbroglio.</DL>
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<B>embroider, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to ornament (cloth or leather) with a design or pattern of stitches. <BR> <I>Ex. She embroidered the handkerchief with his initials. (Figurative.) My sleep had been embroider'd with dim dreams (Keats).</I> (SYN) decorate. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make (an ornamental design or pattern) on cloth, leather, or other material, with stitches. <BR> <I>Ex. She embroidered silver stars on her blue dress.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to add imaginary details to; exaggerate. <BR> <I>Ex. The sailor didn't exactly tell lies, but he did embroider his stories.</I> (SYN) embellish. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to do embroidery. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to give imaginary details; exaggerate or improvise. <BR> <I>Ex. to embroider on a story. In Bellini's day it was customary for the singer to embellish and embroider (Harper's).</I> noun <B>embroiderer.</B> </DL>
