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To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river. [R.]

The mouth of a river, or place where its waters are discharged. [R.]

To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.

To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak. The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerous office. Sir W. Scott.

One who emboldens.

Embolismic.

nsertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

Pertaining to embolism; intercalary; as, embolismal months.

Embolismic.

Pertaining to embolism or intercalation; intercalated; as, an embolismic year, i. e., the year in which there is intercalation.

A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

Embolic invagination. See under Invagination.

Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser.

rances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

One who embosses.