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To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

To mew or coop up. [Obs.] Shak.

Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. "That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." Milton. I shall find you empty of that fault. Shak.

To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.

A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.

rtion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton.

To go aboard a railway train; as, the troops entrained at the station. [Recent, Eng.]

ith arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pr…

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

espect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.

Supplies issued to troops on the march; hence (Mil.),

Final; ultimate. "Eventual success." Cooper.

A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

o the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.