Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.