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lent 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.

The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

An emblazoning.

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

sentation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.

otuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

Disembowelment.

An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

The branching forth, as of trees.

The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.

An ambush. [Obs.]

See Emmenagogue.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Corrigible; amendable. [R.] Bailey.

Without fault; correctly. [Obs.]

of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor.

One who emends or critically edits.