E-abezzlem nt

the act of fraudulently up propria ting to one’s own use the moiey or goods intrusted to one’s rare and management; the thing appropriated; larceny by clerks, servants, or agents. An embezzlement is in substance and e entially a larceny, aggravated rather than palliated by the violation of a trust or contract, instead of being, like larceny, a trespa , Emblem, anything which, by a ociation of ideas, appears to be a visible and suitable representation of some abstract quality; it has a meaning similar to that of the word device. Thus the dog is the emblem of fidelity; the pagle of imperial power: the gridiron is the emblem of St. Lawrence, as the instrument of his ————w > An angel bearing a pen is the emblem of St. Matthew; a lion, that of St. Mark; a bull, of St. Luke; and an ore. of St. John. Flowers are supposed to be emblematic of various qualities, and are, in consequence, sometimes used in the East as a means of communication.