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To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.

Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

Embattled. [Obs.]

To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.

The act rendering more violent or bitter; the state of being exacerbated or intensified in violence or malignity; as, exacerbation of passion.

A keeping watch. [Obs.] Bailey.

= Eddy kite. [Eng.]

A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

To bathe. [Obs.]

Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.

The act or practice of lying on the ground. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

See Whirlbat. [Obs.] Holland.

Any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. See Gibbon.

Of or pertaining to an hyperbaton; transposed; inverted.

r of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

A somnambulist. [R.]

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.