embracerl (embraser)

[Formerly also Section imbracer; The Neapolitan is accounted the best courtier of ladies, and the greatest embracer of pleasure of any other people. Howell , Letters, I. i. 39. embracer2, embraceor (em-bra's er, -sor), n. [Also embrasor; embracery (em-brā'sėr-i), п. [Formerly also imbracery; The grasp of Pasteur on this cla of subjects [ferments] was embracing . Tyndall , Life of Pasteur, Int., p. 24. embracive (em-brā'siv), a . [ embrace + -ive.] Given to embracing; care ing. [Rare.] Not le kind in her way, though le expansive and embrasive , was Madame de Montcontour to my wife. Thackeray , New comes, lvii. embraid1+ (em-brād'), v . t . [Early mod. E. also embread ; braid1 .] To braid. Her golden lockes, that late in tre es bright Embreaded were for hindring of her haste, Now loose about her shoulders hong undight. Spenser, F. Q., III. vi. 18. embraid2+ (em-brād'), v . t . [Early mod. E. also embrayde ; em -1 + braid1 , 5.] To upbraid. To embraide them with their vnbelief, by this exaumple of a man being bot he a heathen and a souldier. J. Udall , On Luke vii. IMG:content-0381.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-0382.png:[blocks in formation] A , B , E , F , section of parapet; B , C , D , E , elevation of one cheek of embrasure; A, B, genouillère; B, E, slope of sole: XY, XY, directrices of embrasures; cbb c ', throat, or interior opening; dee'd, mouth, or exterior opening; xy, axis; cbed,cbed, cheeks or sides; bbee, sole or bottom; cc b beedd, meri on; bb, sill. The widening of the embrasure toward the front is called the splay. indent or crenelle of an embattlement. When the directrix (the line which bisects the sole) is perpendicular to the interior crest of the parapet, the embrasure is termed direct; when the directrix makes an acute angle with it, the embrasure is said to be oblique. The axis of an embrasure is that part of the directrix which lies within the boundaries of the sole. See battlement. We saw on the side of the Hill an old ruined parapet with four or five embrasures. Cook, Third Voyage, vi. 5. Say, pilot, what this fort may be, Whose sentinels look down From moated walls that show the sea Their deep embrasures ' frown? O. W. Holmes , Voyage of the Good Ship Union (1862). embrasure2+ (em-bra'sūr), n . [Irreg. embrace , F. embra er , + -ure.] "An embrace. Where injury of chance IMG:content-0383.png:[blocks in formation] To make brawny or muscular. It will embrawne and iron-crust his flesh. Nashe , Lenten Stuffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 165).