embarmentt (embar ment)

[ barca, arc a, a bark: see bark3.] I. trans. 1. To put on board a ship or other ve el: as, the general embarked his troops and their baggage. Sidan fled to Safi, and embarques his two hundred women in a Flemming; his riches, in a Marsilian. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 632. We went on to the South Sea Coast, and there embarked our selves in such Canoas and Periago's as our Indian friends furnished us withal. Dampier , Voyages, I. iii., Int. The French have embarked Fitz-James's regiment at Ostend for Scotland. Walpole , Letters, II. 5. Hence-2. To place or venture; put at use or risk, as by investment; put or send forth, as toward a destination: as, he embarked his capital in the scheme. I am sorry I e'er embarked myself in such a busine . B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. I suppose thee to be one who hast embarqu'd many prayers for the succe e of the Gospel in these darke corners of the earth. T. Shepard, Clear Sunshine of the Gospel, To the Reader. I know not whether he can be called a good subject who does not embark some part of his fortune with the state, to whose vigilance he owes the security of the whole. Steele, Spectator, No. 346. II. in trans. 1. To go on board ship, as when setting out on a voyage: as, the troops em barked for Lisbon. On the 14 of September I imbarked in another English ship. Sandys, Travailes, p. 7. In the evening I embarked , and they choose an evening for coolne , rowing all night. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 100. Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth Surface of a Summer's Sea? Prior , Henry and Emma. 2. To set out, as in some course or direction; make a start or beginning in regard to something; venture; engage. Ever embarking in Adventures, yet never comes to Harbour. Congreve, Old Batchelor, 1. 4. He saw that he would be slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., x. They were most unwilling that he should embark in an undertaking which they knew would hamper him for so many years to come. Lady Holland , in Sydney Smith, vii. embarkation, embarcation (em-bär-kāʻshon), n. [= F. embarcation , a boat, craft (= Sp. embarcacion = Pg. embarcação ); as embark + -ation .] 1. The act of putting or going on board ship; the act of setting out or sending off by water. The embarcation of the army. Clarendon . Lost again and won back again, it [Salona] appears throughout those wars as the chief point of embarcation for the Imperial armies on their voyages to Italy. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 173. 2. That which is embarked. Another embarcation of Jesuits was sent from Lisbon to Civita Vecchia. Smollett, Hist. Eng., III. xiii. 3. The ve el on which something is embarked. [Rare.] We must have seen something like a hundred of these embarkations [canal-barges) in the course of that day's paddle, ranged one after another like the houses in a street. R. L. Stevens on, Inland Voyage, p. 109. [Formerly