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To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

The act of embedding, or the state of being embedded.

Applied to those ova which segment uniformly, and which have little or no food yelk embedded in their protoplasm. Balfour.

lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

d to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework.

fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are embedded. -- Ground parrakeet (Zoöl.), one of several Australian parrakeets, of the genera Callipsittacus and Geopsittacus, which live mainly upon the ground. -- Ground pearl (Zoöl.), an insect of the family Coccidæ (Margarodes…

bolt, a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood, one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of the pieces. -- Joint chair (Railroad), the chair that supports the ends of abutting rails. -- Joint coupling, a universal joint for coupling shafting. See under Universal. -- Joint hinge, a hinge having long…

To comb. [Obs.] His longe hair was kembed behind his back. Chaucer.

lding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

A cell (as one of two electrodes embedded in selenium) which by exposure to light generates an electric current.

A kind of Venetian glass or glassware in which white threads are embedded in transparent glass with a lacelike or netlike effect.