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EMBAR'RASSMENT,y. Perplexity; entanglement. 
•—Let your method be plain, that your hearers may run 
through it without ernbarraffment,, and take a clear view of 
the whole. Weils. 
To EMBA'SE, v. a. To vitiate; to depauperate; to 
lower; to deprave ; to.impair.—I will rather choofe to 
wear a crown of thorns, than to exchange that of gold for 
one of lead, whole embafed fiexiblenefs (hall be forced to 
bend. King Charles. —A pleafure high, rational, and'an¬ 
gelical ; a pleafure embafed with no appendant ding ; but 
fuch a one as being honey in the mouth, never turns to 
gall or gravel in the belly. South. —To degrade ; to vilify: 
Joy of my life, full oft for loving you 
I blefs my lot, that was fo lucky plac’d ; 
But then the more your own mifliap I rue. 
That are fo much by fo mean love embas’d. Spenfer. 
EM'BASIS, f. [from tv, Gr. in, and Gctwu, to go.] A 
deep tub or veffel for wafliing the body, generally ap¬ 
plied to medical baths. 
EMB AS'SADE,yi [Fr.] Embafly : 
But when Iter words embaffade forth (he fends, 
Lord ! how fvveet mu lie that unto them lends! Spenfer. 
EMB AS'SADOR, f. One fent on a public meflage. 
See the article Ambassador, vol. i. p. 398. 
EMBAS'SADRESS, f. A woman fent on a public 
meflage : 
With fear the modeft matron lifts her eyes, 
And to the bright embaffadrefs replies. Garth. 
The wife of an embaflador.-—Do you frequent the Dutch 
embalTador or embajfadrefs. Chef erf eld. 
EM'BASSAGE, or Embassy, f. [It may be obferved, 
that’ though authors write almoft indiferiminately embaf- 
Jador or ambaffador, embajfage or ambaffage ; yet there is 
fcarcely an example of ambaffy, all concurring to write em~ 
baffy .] A public melTage: a meflage concerning bufinefs: 
The. peace polluted thus, a chofen band 
He firfl: cormniflions to the Latian land, 
In threat’ning tmbaffy. Dryden. 
Any folemn meflage.—He fends the angels on embajjies 
with his decrees. Taylor., —An errand, in an ironical fenfe. 
—A bird was made fly with fuch art to carry a written 
embajfage. among the ladies,, that one might fay, If-a live 
bird, how taught.? .If dead, how made ? Sidney. 
Nimble mi (chance, that art fo light of foot, 
Doth not thy embajfage belong to me; 
And am I lad that know it ? Shakefpeare. 
EMB AS'S AGE, f. Conveyance of thoughts : 
And ever and anone, when none was ware,. 
With fpeaking looks, that elofe embaffage bore, 
He rov’d at her, and told his fecret care. Spenfer. 
EMBA'TER,y. The hole or look-through to take aim 
by in a crofs-bow. 
EMBAT'TILED, part. adj. in heraldry, indented like 
battlements: 
Wearing a diaderne embattil'd wide 
With hundred turrets, like a turribant. Spcrfer. 
To EMBAT'TLE, v. a. To range in order or array of 
battle: 
The Engli(h are embattled ; 
To horfe ! you gallant princes, drait to horfe ! Shahefp. 
Embattl'd nations'drive in vain 
Our hero’s glory to redrain : 
Streams arm’d with rocks, and mountains red with fire, 
In vain againd our force confjpire. Prior. 
On their embattl'd ranks the waves return,, 
And overwhelm the war 1 : Milton. 
EMB 
To EMBAT'TLE, v. n. To be ranged in battle array: 
The night 
Is (liiny, and they fay we dial 1 embattle 
By the Second hour of the morn. Shakefpeare. 
EM'B AUL, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Da¬ 
rnel. Lat. 15. 15. N. Ion. 15. 37. W. Greenwich, 
To E.MBA'Y, v. a. [from baigner , Fr. to bathe.] To 
bathe ; to wet; to wadi. Notufd: 
Every fenfe the humour fw.eet embay'd , 
And, dumb’ring foft, my heart did'deal away. Spenfer. 
[From bay.\ To inclofe in a bay; to land lock: 
If the invading fleet 
Be not inflielter’d and embay'd , they are drown’d. Shakefp.. 
To EMBEL'LISH, v. a. \_embellir, Fr.] To adorn; to 
beautify; to grace with ornaments; to decorate.—That 
which was once the mod beautiful fpot of Italy, covered 
with palaces ,. cmbellified by emperors, and celebrated by. 
poets, has now nothing to (hew but ruins. Addifon. 
How nmch more beauteous had the fountain been, 
Embellifi'd with her fird created green ; 
Where crydal dreams through living turf had run, 
Contented vvith ail urn of native done. Dryden. 
EMBEL'LISHMENT, f. Ornament ; adventitious.. 
beauty; decoration; adfeititious grace; any thing that 
confers the power of-pleaiing : 
Culture the wild licentious favage 
With wifdom, difeipline, and liberal arts, 
Th’ embellifhments of life. Addifon. 
EM'BER-DAYS, certain days obferved by the church 
at four different feafons of the year ; viz, the Wednefday, 
Friday, and Saturday, next after Quadragefima Sunday, or 
the fird Sunday in Lent; the next after Whitfunday; after 
Holyrood or Holycrofs, the 14th day of September; and 
after St. Lucy, the 13th day of December. The name is 
derived, from embers or allies, which it is fuppofed were 
ftrewed on the head, on thefe folemn occadons. 
EM'BER WEEKS, tliofe weeks in which the Ember- 
days fall. Ember-weeks are now chiefly noticed on ac-- 
count of the ordination of prieds. and deacons ; becaufe the 
canon appoints the Sundays next after the Ember-weeks 
for the folemn times of ordination; though thebifhops, if 
they pleafe, may ordain on any Sunday or holiday. 
EMBE-Rl'ZAj.y. the Bunting ; in ornithology, a 
genus of birds belonging to the order of pafferas. The 
bill is conical, and the mandibles recede from each,other 
towards the bale the inferior mandible has the fide.nar¬ 
rowed! nwards ; the upper, with a hard knob within.. 
This genus contains no lefs than feventy-four fpecies, 
befides many varieties, fome or other of which are found 
in all parts of the known world. They are as follow : 
1. Emberiza nivalis, the fnow bunting. The bleak 
mountains of Spitsbergen, the Lapland Alps, the fliores 
of Hudfon’s-bay, and perhaps countries dill more north¬ 
erly, are, during the Tummer months, the favourite abodes 
of this bird. The exceflive feverity of thefe inhofpitable 
climates, changes part of its plumage into white in win¬ 
ter. It has a pleafing variety of appearance from a di- 
verfified intermixture of white, black, and ferruginous;, 
and the combinations of thefe colours are affedted by the 
feafon, and by the temperature of the countries they in¬ 
habit. In winter, the head, the neck, the coverts of the 
wings, and all the under part of the body, are in the 
male white as fnow, with a light and almod transparent 
tint of ferruginous on the head only ; the back is black ; 
the quills of the wings, and of the tail, partly black, 
partly white. In fummer, the head, the neck, the under 
part of the body, and even the back, are ftained with 
tranfverfe ferruginous waves of various intenfity, but ne¬ 
ver fo deep as in the female, of which it is the predomi¬ 
nant colour, and difpofed in longitudinal ftripes. In fome 
fubjedls 
