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An intended parapet; a battlement.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

A bay. [R.] The embayment which is terminated by the land of North Berwick. Sir W. Scott.

To make brilliant with beams. [R.] G. Fletcher.

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.

To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

One who embellishes.

he state of being adorned; adornment. In the selection of their ground, as well as in the embellishment of it. Prescott.

ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire. "He rakes hot embers." Dryden. He takes a lighted ember out of the covered vessel. Colebrooke.

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]

Ember days. [Obs.]

a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows. Syn. -- subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae. [WordNet 1.5]

To make better. [Obs.]

erty intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.

e fraudulent 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.

One who embezzles.

To swell or heave like a [R.] Lisle.

Belonging to, or resembling, the Embiotocidæ. -- n.

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.