Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EM-PALE'MENT, n.

1. A fencing, fortifying or inclosing with stakes; a putting to death by thrusting a stake into the body.
2. In botany, the calyx of a plant, which surrounds the other part of fructification.
3. In heraldry, a conjunction of coats of arms, pale-wise. Warton.