emboweler, emboweller (emboueler)

[Formerly also imboweler, imboweller; What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and bra . Lamb, Old Benchers. You'll see your Rome embrac'd with fire, before You'll speak with Coriolanus. Shak ., Cor., v. 2. Low at his feet his spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced . Sir J. Denham. A river sweeping round, With gleaming curves the valley did embrace, And seemed to make an island of that place. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 233. 3. Figuratively, to take. (a) To take or receive. with willingne ; accept as true, desirable, or advantageous; make one's own; take to one's self: as, to em brace the Christian religion, a cause, or an opportunity. With shryfte of mouthe and pennaunce smerte They wene ther blis for to vmbrace. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 97. I thought he would have embraced this opportunity of speaking to me. Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. O lift your natures up; Embrace our aims; work out your freedom. Tennyson, Prince , ii. (b) To receive or accept, though unwillingly; accept as inevitable. I embrace this fortune patiently, Since not to be avoided it falls on me. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 5. Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death; Come not within the measure of my wrath. IMG:content-0376.png:[blocks in formation] being afterward removed. In some machines engraved rolls are used in place of stamps, and the wood is steamed and pa ed between the rolls while hot. 3. A machine for embo ing an ornamental design on boot and shoe-fronts.