Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EM-BLAZ'ING, ppr.

Embellishing with glittering ornaments, or with figures armorial.

EM-BLAZ'ON, v.t. [embla'zn; Fr. blasonner. See Emblaze.]

1. To adorn with figures of heraldry at ensigns armorial. Johnson.
2. To deck in glaring colors; to display pompously. We find Augustus – emblazoned / by the poets. Hakewill.

EM-BLAZ'ON-ED, pp.

Adorned with figures or ensigns armorial; set out pompously.

EM-BLAZ'ON-ER, n.

1. A blazoner; one that emblazons; a herald.
2. One that publishes and displays with pomp.

EM-BLAZ'ON-ING, ppr.

Adorning with ensigns or figures armorial; displaying with pomp.

EM-BLAZ'ON-MENT, n.

An emblazoning. Roscoe.

EM-BLAZ'ON-RY, n.

Pictures on shields; display of figures. Milton.

EM'BLEM, n. [Gr. εμβλημα, from εμβαλλω, to cast in, to insert.]

1. Properly, inlay; inlayed or mosaic work; something inserted in the body of another.
2. A picture representing one thing to the eye, and another to the understanding; a painted enigma, or a figure representing some obvious history, instructing us in some moral truth. Such is the image of Scævola holding his hand in the fire, with these words, “agere et pati fortiter Romanum est,” to do and to suffer with fortitude is Roman. Encyc.
3. A painting or representation, intended to hold forth some moral or political instruction; an allusive picture; a typical designation. A balance is an emblem of justice; a crown is the emblem of royalty; a scepter, of power or sovereignty.
4. That which represents another thing in its predominant qualities. A white robe in Scripture is an emblem of purity or righteousness; baptism, of purification.

EM'BLEM, v.t.

To represent by similar qualities. Feltham.

EM-BLE-MAT'IC, or EM-BLE-MAT'IC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to or comprising an emblem.
2. Representing by some allusion or customary connection; as, a crown is emblematic of royalty, a crown being worn by kings.
3. Representing by similar qualities; as, whiteness is emblematic of purity.
4. Using emblems; as, emblematic worship.

EM-BLE-MAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By way or means of emblems; in the manner of emblems; by way of allusive representation. Swift.

EM-BLEM'A-TIST, n.

A writer or inventor of emblems. Brown.

EM-BLEM'A-TIZ-ED, pp.

Represented by an emblem.

EM-BLEM'A-TIZ-ING, ppr.

Representing by an emblem.

EM'BLE-MENT, n. [Used mostly in the plural. Norm. emblear, emblements; embleer, to sow; Fr. emblaver; Norm. bleer, to sow with corn, from blé, bled, corn.]

The produce or fruits of land sown or planted. This word is used for the produce of land sown or planted by a tenant for life or years, whose estate is determined suddenly after the land is sown or planted and before harvest. In this case the tenant's executors shall have the emblements. Emblements comprehend not only corn, but the produce of any annual plant. But the produce of grass and perennial plants belongs to the lord, or proprietor of the land. Blackstone.

EM'BLEM-IZE, v.t.

To represent by an emblem.

EM'BLEM-IZ-ED, pp.

Represented by an emblem.

EM'BLEM-IZ-ING, ppr.

Representing by an emblem.

EM-BLOOM', v.t.

To cover or enrich with bloom. Good.

EM-BLOOM'ED, pp.

Enriched with bloom.

EM-BLOOM'ING, ppr.

Covering with bloom.

EM-BOD'I-ED, pp. [See Embody.]

Collected or formed into a body.

EM-BOD'I-ER, n.

He that embodies.

EM-BOD'I-MENT, n.

Act of embodying.

EM-BOD'Y, v.t. [en, in, and body.]

To form or collect into a body or united mass; to collect into a whole; to incorporate; to concentrate; as, to embody troops; to embody detached sentiments.