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

Same as Ambassador. Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour, Was sent to Corinth. Chaucer. Myself my king's embassador will go. Dryden.

f being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon.

about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. Gibbon. A green encampment yonder meets the eye. Guardian.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race. English bond (Arch.)

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.

Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.