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Resembling an element.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

dulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

d; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

Same as Impalement.

The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon.

The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

The act of making noble, or of exalting, dignifying, or advancing to nobility. Bacon.

See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.

State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.

A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.

Exhalation. [Obs.]

Banishment. [R.] Sir. H. Wotton.

To banish; to drive out; to expel. [Obs.] "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.

One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.

A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.] Spenser.

A quotation mark. [R.]

The act of impaling, or the state of being impaled. Byron.

se; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.