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

To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

To disembowel. The barbarous practice of emboweling. Hallam. The boar . . . makes his trough In your emboweled bosoms. Shak.

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]

Disembowelment.

To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.

An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy. Shak. Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them. Acts xx. 1.

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

One guilty of embracery.

One who embraces.

An attempt to influence a court, jury, etc., corruptly, by promises, entreaties, money, entertainments, threats, or other improper inducements.

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. [R.] Thackeray.

To braid up, as hair. [Obs.] Spenser.

The branching forth, as of trees.

To confuse; to entangle. I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. Berkeley.