Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EM-BOD'Y-ING, ppr.

Collecting or forming into a body.

EM-BO'GUING, n.

The mouth of a river or place where its waters are discharged into the sea. [An ill formed word.]

EM-BOLD-EN, v.t. [en and bold.]

To give boldness or courage; to encourage. 1 Cor. viii.

EM-BOLD-EN-ED, pp.

Encouraged.

EM-BOLD'EN-ER, n.

One that emboldens.

EM-BOLD-EN-ING, ppr.

Giving courage or boldness.

EM'BO-LISM, n. [Gr. εμβολισμος, from εμβαλλω, to throw in, to insert.]

1. Intercalation; the insertion of days, months or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity. The Greeks made use of the lunar year of 354 days, and to adjust it to the solar year of 365, they added a lunar month every second or third year, which additional month they called embolimæus. Encyc.
2. Intercalated time.

EM-BO-LIS'MAL, a.

Pertaining to intercalation; intercalated; inserted. The embolismal months are either natural or civil. Encyc.

EM-BO-LIS'MIC, a.

Intercalated; inserted. Twelve lunations form a common year, and thirteen, the embolismic year. Grosier's China.

EM'BO-LUS, n. [Gr. εμβολος, from εμβαλλω, to thrust in.]

Something inserted or acting in another; that which thrusts or drives; a piston. Arbuthnot.

EM-BON-POINT, n. [Fr.]

Plumpness.

EM-BOR'DER, v.t. [Old Fr. emborder.]

To adorn with a border.

EM-BOR'DER-ED, pp.

Adorned with a border.

EM-BOR'DER-ING, ppr.

Adorning with a border.

EM-BOSS', v.t.¹ [en, in and boss.]

1. In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.
2. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances. Milton.
3. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell. Hanmer.

EMBOSS', v.t.² [Fr. emboîter, for emboister, from boîte, boiste, a box.]

To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.] Spenser.

EM-BOSS', v.t.³ [It. imboscare, from bosco, a wood.]

To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.] Milton.

EM-BOSS'ED, pp.

Formed with bosses or raised figures.

EM-BOSS'ING, ppr.

Forming with figures in relievo. Bacon.

EM-BOSS'MENT, n.

1. A prominence, like a boss; a jut.
2. Relief; figures in relievo; raised work. Addison.

EM-BOT'TLE, v.t. [en, in, and bottle.]

To put in a bottle; to bottle; to include or confine in a bottle.

EM-BOT'TLED, pp.

Put in or included in bottles. Philips.

EM-BOT'TLING, ppr.

Putting in a bottle.

EM'BOU-CHURE, n. [Fr.]

1. A mouth or aperture, as of a river, cannon, &c.
2. The mouth-hole of a wind instrument of music.

EM-BOW, v.t.

To form like a bow; to arch; to vault. Spenser.