embalmment 
there, till he sent order* for the 'nibalunm'nf, which In* 
added should In- after the royal manner. 
Mill"!,' 1 , Ill'vlen, 'AreMilrit of 111.- Klllieral. ' 
2. A substance used in em bid mine;. [Archaic.] 
At I. ii'jlii ui found a faiie nen Mat, and vnder that two 
bundle-, the one bii.'Ker, (ho other lease ; in the greater we 
found u great quantity of line red (Kinder, like a kinde nf 
imbalmeineHt. Cii/it. Jnlm fimii/i, True Tiavi Is. (I. m. 
If I die. 
Like sweet riiil'iilmiiii'iil round my heart Hlulll lie 
This Inve, thin love, tliis love I have for thee. 
tt'illiiiin Miirri*, r.artlily Paradise, [. :1. 
embank ((Mn-bangk'), p. t. [Formerly also im- 
liunk : < rnt-l 4- hunk 1 .'} To inclose with :i 
lunik; furnish with an embankment; defender 
st iviie;! lien by 1 lan ks, mounds, ordikes; bank up. 
embankment (em-bangk'mgnt), n. [Formerly 
also imbankiurnt ; < embank + -went.] 1. Tile 
act of surrounding or defending with a bank. 
2. A mound, bank, dike, or earthwork raised 
for auy purpose, as to protect land from the 
inroads of the sea or from the overflow of a 
river, to carry a canal, road, or railway over a 
valley, etc. ; a levee : as, the Thames embank- 
mi'iit in London, England. 
Once again the tide had rolled fiercely against the em- 
tmnkiii'-iil , ami Korne part of It away. 
K. Doieilen, Shelley, I. SOX 
embart (em-bar'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. embarred, 
Pjir. rmbarring. [Formerly also imbar; < OF. 
rmbarrer, enbarrer, bar, set bars on. bar in, < 
en- + barrer, bar: see em- 1 and bari.~\ 1. To 
bar; close or fasten with a bar; make fast. 
2. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape ; 
bar up or in. 
Fast embard in mighty hrasen wall. 
Spetuer, . Q., I. vii. 44. 
She {the ship] was hy their agreement stolen out of the 
harhor, where she had licen long embarred. 
Wiiithrop, Hist. New England, II. 88. 
3. To stop; obstruct; bar out. 
The first great judgment of God upon the ambition of 
man \vas the confusion of tongues ; wherehy the open 
trade and intercourse of learning and knowledge was 
chiefly iuibarred. Baton, Advancement of Learning, i. 04. 
embarcation, . See embarkation. 
embargeH (em-biirj'), ". ' [< <- 1 + barge.'] 
To put or go on board a barge. 
Triumphal! music from the flood arose, 
As when tiie suiieraigne we rmbary'd doe see, 
And hy faire London for his pleasure rowes. 
Drayton, Legend of Robert. 
embarge a t, '' ' See embargjie. 
embargo (em-biir'go), n. [Formerly also im- 
linrfio ; = D. G. Dan. Sw. embargo = F. embargo 
= It. imbarco, < Sp. embargo, an embargo, 
seizure, arrest (= Pg. embargo, embargo, objec- 
tion, = Pr. embnrg, embarc), < embttrgar (= Pg. 
i-mbargar), arrest, restrain, distrain, impede, 
seize, lay an embargo on, < ML. as if "imharri- 
carf, block up, embar, < L. in, in, in- 3 , + ML. 
hurra, a bar: see ftnrl, and cf. barricade, em- 
bar, embarrass.'} 1. A stoppage or seizure of 
ships or merchandise by sovereign authority; 
specifically, a restraint or prohibition imposed 
by the authorities of a country on merchant 
vessels, or other ships, to prevent their leav- 
ing its ports, and sometimes amounting to an 
interdiction of commercial intercourse either 
with a particular country or with all countries. 
The sequestration liy a nation of vessels or goods of its 
own citizens or subjects, for public uses, is sometimes 
called a riril mini-go, in contradistinction to a general 
imihiliition from leaving port intended to affect the 
Hal, or naval operation- of another nation, called inter- 
iHitniniil embargo. 
x on merchandize was another engine of r".val 
power. by n hich the F.nulish princes were able to c\tm t 
in ..... > from the people, llumr. Hist" Bug., V., App. ill. 
An fialxiriio ... is. in its special sense, a detention of 
vessels in a port, whether they be national or foreign. 
whether for the purpose of employing them and their 
erews in a naval expedition, as was formerly practised, or 
for political purposes, or by way of reprisals. 
Woitlsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 5 114. 
Hence 2. A restraint or hindrance imposed 
on anything: as, to lay an embargo on free 
speech. 
Her embargo of silence. 
,','u --A;)./.'. Sermons on riving Subjects, I. :u. 
The chill embargo of the snow 
Was melted in the genial glow. 
Whitlirr. Snow-Bolind. 
Embargo acts. I'nited States statutes forbidding the 
clearing of merchant vessels from any I'nited States port 
excepting by special permission of the President. The 
most celebrated is that of 1807, amended in 1808(2 Stat.. 
451 an. I 4.VO. passed to countervail the Berlin and Milan 
decrees of Napoleon I. and the British order- ii ..... nneil. 
b> whirl] France ..... i Uivat Britain, then at war. intimated 
!il t" interfere with and control neutral men haul 
vessels, whether carrying articles contraband of wnr or 
ii"i Similar acts were passed in 1MJ ( Stat.. 70") and 
1813 (3 Stat., 88). 
embargo (em-biir'g"). '' '. [< rmlitiriin. .] To 
lay an I'liibargn upon; restrain the movement 
or voluntary use of, as ships or property, es- 
pecially as an act of sovereignty or of public 
policy ; make a seizure or arrestment of. See 
I'l/ltill I'lfO, H. 
embarguet, n. [< embargo, H.] An embargo. 
To make an f:'n>>niftr>"' of any stranger's Ship that rides 
within his I'orts upon all Occasions. 
ll"ii'fll. Letters, I. Hi. 11. 
embarguet (pm-biirg'), r. t. [Also, less prop., 
fin Ixiri/i- ; < embargo, t'.] To embargo. 
The first, to know if there were any warres betweene 
-p:iine and England. The second, why our merchants 
with their goods were eadnryed or arrested. 
Hakluyt'a Vuyaye*, III (K, 
Howsoever, lu respect of the kings departure (at which 
time they use here to ,-m'iiM>' all the mules, and means 
of carriage in this town), I believe his lordship will not 
be-in his journey so soon as he intended. 
Cabbii/ti, sir Wm. Alston to Sec. Conway. 
It was no voluntary but a constrained Act in the Eng- 
lish, who, being in the Persian's Port, were suddenly f!tn- 
vari/utd for the Service (for the taking of Ornius). 
Howell, Letters, I. ill. 11. 
embarguementt, n. See embnn/niment. 
embark (cm-bark'), v. [Formerly also embarque 
and imbark; < OF. (and F.) embarguer = Sp. 
Pg. embarcar = It. imbarcare, < L. in, in, + ML. 
barca, a bark : see 6nrA' 3 .] I. trans. 1 . To put 
on board a ship or other vessel : as, the general 
embarked his troops and their baggage. 
Sidan fled to Sail, and embarfjues his two hundred wo- 
men in a Flemming; his riches, In a Marsilian. 
Pure/tan, Pilgrimage, p. 632. 
We went on to the South Sea Coast, and there embarked 
our selves in such Canoos and Periago's as our Indian 
friend- furnished us withal. Dampier, Voyages, I. 111., Int. 
The French have embarked Fitz-Jaraes's regiment at 
Osteud for Scotland. Walpule, Letters, II. 5. 
Hence 2. To place or venture; put at use or 
risk, as by investment ; put or send forth, as 
toward a destination : as, lie embarked his capi- 
tal in the scheme. 
I am sorry 
I e'er embarked myself In such a business. 
S. Joivton, Alchemist, i. 1. 
I suppose thee to be one who hast emlMirqu'd many 
prayers for the successe of the Gospel in these darke cor- 
ners of the earth. 
T. Shepard, Clear Sunshine of the Gospel, To the Reader. 
I know not whether he cun l>e called a good subject who 
does not embark some part of his fortune with the state, 
to whose vigilance he owes the security of the whole. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 346. 
II. ill trans. 1. To go on board ship, as when 
setting out on a voyage: as, the troops em- 
barked for Lisbon. 
On the 14 of September I iimiarked in another English 
ship. Sandy*, Travalles, p. 7. 
In the evening I embarked, and they choose an evening 
for coolness, rowing all night. 
Damjiitr, Voyages, II. I. 100. 
Dili I but purpose to embark with thee 
On the smooth Surface of a Summer's Sea? 
Prior, Henry and Emma. 
2. To set out, as in some course or direction ; 
make a start or beginning in regard to some- 
thing; venture; engage. 
Ever embarking in Adventures, yet never comes to Har- 
bour. Congreae, Old Batchelor, I. 4. 
He saw that he would be slow to embark in such an un- 
dertaking. Maeanlay, Hist. Eng., x. 
They were most unwilling that he should embark In an 
undertaking which they knew would hamper him for so 
many years to come. Ladii Holland, in Sydney Smith, vil. 
embarkation, embarcation (em-bar-ka'shon), 
n. [= F. embarcation. a boat, craft (= Sp. 
I'lnbnrcaeion = Pg. embarca^do) ; as embark + 
-utioii.'] 1. The act of putting or going on board 
ship ; the act of setting out or sending off by 
water. 
The emlxtrcalitm of the army. Clarendon. 
Lost again and won back again, It |Saloua] appears 
throughout those wars as the chief point of embarcation 
for the Imperial armies on their voyages to Italy. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 173. 
2. That which is embarked. 
Another embarcai>< n ui .1. -nits was sent front Lisbon to 
Clvita Vecchia. Smollett, Hist. Eng., III. xiii. 
3. The vessel on which something is embarked. 
[Bare.] 
We must have seen something like a hundred of these 
. . ''<nhj<ioM|canal-harges] In the course of that day's pad- 
dle, ranged one after another like the houses in a street. 
Ii. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 109. 
embarkment (em-biirk'ment), n. [Formerly 
also imluirkmrnt, I'lii/inrijiirn/riit. imbarquejment 
(and emhtiri/itciiH-nt. q. v.); < OF. (and F.) em- 
linri/Hi mi'iit (= Pg. embiirt-iimi'iito = It. imburca- 
ni' iitii),< I'nilitiri/iii i-. embark: see embark.] The 
act of embarking; embarkation. 
embarrassment 
He removed from his ('iiman to his PompeUn villa, be- 
yond Naples, which, not Itelng so commodious for an * 
barlcmenl, would help U> lessen the suspicion of his In- 
tended flight. MiddUton, Life of Cicero, II. 289 (Ord M- 
embannentt (om-bar'ment), n. [< embar -f 
-/<..] An embargo, flalliirell. 
A tine rc|Kirt of the general embarremenl of all English 
-Inppc-. Title of a Tract (1684). 
embarquementt, . [Occurring in the follow- 
ing passage in Shakspere, where some editions 
have riiil>iiri/Hi nitnl ; < OF. ruirVirv/ur/rirrif, tak- 
iiiL' ship, putting into a ship, loading: see <-m- 
barkment. Embargo does not appear to have 
been in use in any form in Shaksperc's time.] 
A word of uncertain meaning (perhaps a load- 
ing, burdening, restraint) in the following pas- 
sage: 
The prayers of priest*, nor times of sacrifice, 
Kmbarijitement* [var. embarguements\ all of fury. 
Mb, Oar., I. 10. 
embarras (on-ba-ra'), w. [F.] See embarrass. 
embarrass (em-bar'as), r. t. [< F. embarrasser, 
encumber, obstruct, block up, entangle, per- 
plex (= Sp. embarazar = Pg. embarayar = 
It. imbarazzare, embarrass), < L. in, in, + F. 
"barras, Pr. barras, a bar ; ci. Sp. barras. a pris- 
on, prop. pi. of Pr. Sp., etc., barra, F. oarre, a 
bar. Ct. embar, embargo, and debarrass, disem- 
barrass.] 1. To hamper or impede as with en- 
tanglements; encumber; render intricate or 
difficult; beset with difficulties; confuse or per- 
plex, as conflicting circumstances, pecuniary 
complications, etc.: as, public affairs are em- 
barrassed; want of order tends to embarrasx 
business ; the merchant is embarrassed by the 
unfavorable state of the market, or by his lia- 
bilities. 
I believe our being here will hut embarrass the inter- 
view. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. II. 
Hugo was an indefatigable and versatile writer. The 
stupendous quantity of work which he produced during 
his long literary career is hardly less embarrassinti In va- 
riety than in amount. Edinburgh Rev., CI.XII1. 181. 
2. To perplex mentally ; confuse the thoughts 
or perceptions of ; discompose ; disconcert ; 
abash : as, an abrupt address may embarrass a 
young lady. 
He well knew that this would embarrass me. 
Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
He I Washington ] never appeared embarraesed at homage 
rendered him. Bancroft, Hist. Const., II, 364. 
Syn. 1. To hinder, impede, obstruct, harass, distress, 
clog, ham(M?r. 2. Embarrajts, Puzzle, Perplex. To embar- 
rot*, literally, is to bar one's way, to impede one's progress 
in a particular direction, to hamper one's actions ; hence, 
to make it difficult for one to know what is best to be 
done; also, to confuse or disconcert one so that one has 
not for a time one's usual judgment or presence of mind. 
To puzzle, literally, is to pose or give a hard question to, 
to put into a state of uncertainty where decision is difficult 
or impossible ; it applies equally to opinion and to conduct. 
To perplex, literally, is to Inclose, as in the meshes of a net, 
to entangle one's judgment so that one Is at a loss w hat 
to think or how to act. Embarrass expresses most of un- 
comfortable feeling and mental confusion. 
Awkward, embarrassed, stitf. without the skill 
Of moving gracefully or standing still. 
Churchill, The Rosclad. 
Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies. 
To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit.,L 115. 
They . . . begin by laws to perplex their commerce with 
infinite regulations, impossible to be remembered and 
observed. Franklin, Autoblog., p. 409. 
He Is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own 
blunders. Addison. 
embarrass (em-bar'as), n. [Also written, as 
F., embarras; < F. embarras = Sp. embarazo = 
Pg. embaraqo = It. imbarazzo, embarrassment, 
obstruction, etc. ; from the verb.] If. Embar- 
rassment. 
" Now," says my Lord, " the only and the greatest em- 
barras that I have In the world Is, how to behave myself 
to Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Chancellor." 
Pepys, Mary, II. 148. 
These little embarrasses we men of intrigue are eternally 
subject to. Foote. 
2. In the parts of the United States formerly 
French, a place where the navigation of a river 
or creek is rendered difficult by the accumula- 
tion of driftwood, trees, etc. 
embarrassingly (em-bar'as-ing-li), adr. In an 
embarrassing manner; so as to embarrass. 
embarrassment (em-bar'as-tnent), n. [< rm- 
burriixs + -merit.] 1. Perplexity; intricacy: 
entanglement; involvement, as by debt or un- 
favorable circumstances. 
The embarrassments to commerce growing out of the 
lat regulations. Bancroft. 
Let your method be plain, that your hearers may run 
through it without rmliarrastment. Want. Logic. 
