embrace2 (embras)

t. [OF. embraser, em bracer, F. embraser, set on fire, fire, kindle, inflame, incite, instigate, And he who strives the tempest to disarm Will never first embrail the lee yard-arm. embroid Sage Moses first their wondrous might descry'd, When, by some drops from hence imbraved , he His triumph sung o'er th' Erythrwan Tide. J. Beaumont , Psyche, 1. 3. 2. To embellish; make fine or showy; decorate. Spenser, Shep. Cal., November. The faded flowres her corse embrave . or divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch, phylum, or subkingdom. The embranchement or sub-kingdom Mollusca. E. R. Lankester , Encyc. Brit., XVI. 632. embranchment (em-branch'ment), n. [F.embranchement, a branching out, a branch, em brancher , branch, en- + branche , branch: see branch.] A branching out, as of trees; ramifi cation; division. Punishment for the person embracing [the embracer] is This Fraternity with its embranchments. by fine and imprisonment; and for the juror so embraced, if it be by money, the punishment (by D. G. Mitchell , Bound Together, v. statutes of the indign on risperindavers embrangle, imbrangle (em-, im-brang'gl), v. t.; value. imprisonment for a year, and forfeiture of the tenfold Black stone, Com., IV. x. In her., braced embraced (em-brāst'), p. a. together; tied or bound together. embracement (em-bras'ment), n. [Formerly also imbracement; These beasts, fighting with any man, stand upon their hinder feet, and so this did, being ready to give me a shrewd embracement . Sir P. Sidney. IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 346. 2. The act of taking to one's self; seizure; acceptance. [Rare.] Such a benefact our is Almighty God, and such a tribute he requires of us; a ready embracement of, and a joyfull complacency in, his kindne . Barrow , Works, I. viii. He shows the greatne Of his vast stomach in the quick embracement Of th' other's dinner. Ford, Lady's Trial, ii. 1. IMG:content-0380.png:[blocks in formation] little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, how. ever, poor Jacob managed always hopele ly to embrangle. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 3.