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The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

f guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in…

of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.…

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

bproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]

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

That part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.

for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening. Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water. Sir W. Raleigh.

An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.

A scratching out, or erasure. [Obs.]

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

or to the fire of a forge. [Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.] Tuyère arch, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.