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To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade. It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. South.

The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.

Embarkation. [R.] Middleton.

To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore; to land; to debark; as, the general disembarked the troops.

The act of disembarking.

Disembarkation. [R.]

To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.

A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons. Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. Milton.

To go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.

Disembarkation. The debarkation, therefore, had to take place by small steamers. U. S. Grant.

To disembark. Pope.

Same as Embarkation.

To embark in a business; to take a part; to employ or involve one's self; to devote attention and effort; to enlist; as, to engage in controversy.

n; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office. Religion, which is the chief engagement of our league. Milton.

te beforehand, so as to provide for. It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to forecast consequences. L'Estrange.

See Embark.

To embark; to go or put into a barge. [Obs.] Drayton.

To embark. [Obs.] Shak.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. I 'll undertake top land them on our coast. Shak.