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Embassy. Term used ior an 

 ambassador and his staff collec- 

 tively. It is also used for the build- 

 ing which serves as their head- 

 quarters, e.g. the British Embassy 

 in Paris. By international courtesy 



Embankment. 1. Thames Embankment, London, looking E. from Waterloo 

 Bridge. 2. Embankment at Belvide reservoir, Staffordshire. 3. Sectional 

 diagram of Thames Embankment at Lambeth, and, 4, at Chelsea. 5. Embank- 

 ment on the National Transcontinental Rly. at James Bay, Canada 



The angle ot repose varies with 

 different materials from 14 to 37 ; 

 the range for materials usually em- 

 ployed is from 26 to 34. Owing to 

 the steeper gradients permissible, 

 road embankments are not often 

 necessary on a big scale, but, where 

 constructed, the same rules apply 

 as to railway embankments. 



Reservoir embankments consist 

 of earth or similar material lined 

 inside with concrete or stone and 

 rendered watertight by a vertical 

 wall of clay puddle in the centre of 

 the bank, extending from a founda- 

 tion of impervious material to well 

 above water level. Such embank- 

 ments have to sustain the side pres- 

 sure of the impounded water, and 

 are made with slopes much flatter 

 than the natural angle of repose. 



A wharf contained by sheet piling v 

 with earth filling, or the protection 

 or reclamation of a foreshore or 



riparian land by a wall, may con- 

 stitute an embankment. The term 

 is popularly applied to riverside 

 constructions whereby the banks 

 are protected and retained by walls 

 and have a road and footwalk some- 

 times ornamented with gardens. 



Embargo (Span.). Term used in 

 English law meaning an arrest of 

 merchant ships. In time of war it 

 has long been customary for a bel- 

 ligerent to lay an embargo upon 

 the ships of the enemy found in its 

 ports. Sometimes, without a de- 

 claration of war, an embargo has 

 been laid on the ships of a state 

 which has committed a wrong and 

 has refused to make satisfaction for 

 it. In such cases the embargo is 

 used as an engine of pressure. 



The term is used by analogy for 

 prohibitions of other kinds, e.g. an 

 embargo on places of amusement, on 

 imports, and so on. See Blockade 



in the soil of the country to whicl 

 the ambassador belongs. This 

 means, for instance, that in the 

 French embassy in London English 

 law is not operative. Writs cannot 

 be served there or orders of the 

 court executed. See Diplomacy. 



Embattled, IMBATTLED, OR 

 BATTLED. In heraldry, a line of 

 division, or outline, showing square 

 projections like _______ ^ 



the crenellations 

 or embrasures of 

 a castle wall. 

 The term crenel- 

 lated is some- 

 times used. 



Ember Days. 

 In the Angli- 

 can and Ro 

 man Catholic 

 Churches, fasts 

 of the four seasons. They are the 

 Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 

 after the 1st Sunday in Lent, Whit- 

 sunday, Sept. 14 (Holy Cross Day), 

 and Dec. 13 (feast of S. Lucy). The 

 weeks in which these days occur are 

 called Ember Weeks. They were 

 introduced into England by S. 

 Gregory (590-604). Ordinations in 

 the Anglican Church take place on 

 the Sundays following the Ember 

 Days, and in the R.C. Church on the 

 Saturdays of the Ember Weeks. 



Embezzlement. In English 

 law, the wrongful appropriation 

 to his own use, by a clerk or 

 servant, of money received by him 

 from his master. It must be dis- 

 tinguished from larceny by a 

 servant. In the latter case the 

 servant steals property which has 

 been in his master's possession ; 

 in embezzlement he intercepts it. 

 For example, if a shop assistant 

 receives a shilling for goods sold 

 and simply puts it in his pocket, and 

 does not account for it to his 

 master, it is embezzlement. If he 

 puts it in the till, and then takes it 

 out again and steals it, it is larceny 

 by a servant. 



Emblem (Gr. emblema, an inser- 

 tion). Originally meaning an orna- 

 ment inserted on a mosaic or vase, 

 the term is now generally used for an 

 object or representation symbolic 

 by reason of its connexion with 

 another object, person, or event. 

 It is also used for the marks used 

 by printers to distinguish the work 

 .of their press. 

 ^) In art the emblem has played an 

 important part, especially in the re- 

 presentation of Christian saints, etc. 

 The work of the old masters, and 



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