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One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet.

Furnished with turrets and battlements, like a castle; built in the style of a castle.

An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

To furnish with battlements. "Embattled house." Wordsworth.

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

decorative fashion, or by crowning it with ornaments, regularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture…

o, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.

Mural crown (Rom. Antiq.), a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance dep…

tands as it were to the ground yglued. Chaucer. The ruined wall Stands when its wind worn battlements are gone. Byron.

ffected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. Jer. Taylor. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.

A keeper; a guardian; a watchman. He called to the warden on the . . . battlements. Sir. W. Scott.