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To stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up. He embarred all further trade. Bacon.

tions." "You embrace the occasion." Shak. What is there that he may not embrace for truth Locke.

An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.

elves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

One who praises; a panegyrist. Locke.

hment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.

To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver. Engrave principles in men's minds. Locke.

ke; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.

o purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

y is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

shington. The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings. Locke. Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain. Froude.

ertain a proposal. I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke. De Quincey. A rumor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

or divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination. Locke.

rts; as, the entrails of the earth. That treasure . . . hid the dark entrails of America. Locke.

reathe together or round. [Written also intwine.] Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks. Shelley. Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine. Herbert.

To act as a bishop; to fill the office of a prelate. [Obs.] Feeding the flock episcopating. Milton.

ing machines for regulating the twist of the yarn. It resembles gearing used in equation clocks for showing apparent time. -- Equation of the center (Astron.), the difference between the place of a planet as supposed to move uniformly in a circle, and its place as moving in an ellipse. -- Equations of condition (Math…

on and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.