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ceolate, reflex fcales; flowery in fpikes., terminating; 
corolla fcarlet, tubular-incurved, with an anther lying in 
the broad end of each of the four petals ; feeds in the fol¬ 
licle imbricate, with a (harp wing. Found in Terra del 
Fuego by Forfter, and in flie Straits of Magellan by Com- 
merfon, who named it i.xora. Its common name is catas. 
Several other fpecies have been obferved in Peru and 
Chili. 
3. Embothrium fpecioflflinium, or beautiful emboth- 
rium. This is a magnificent (limb; a native of New 
Holland : it grows to the height of eight of ten feet, 
with fevered fun pie, wand-like, round, branches, clothed 
with numerous large, alternate, bright-green, leaves, 
from four to fix inches long; ob,ovate and blunt, but tip¬ 
ped with a fmall point : they are-more or lefs ferrated on 
the fides. The flowers grow in a very denfe Ample head 
bn the top of each branch, and the head is furrounded 
at the bafe with numerous lanceolate leaves, or rather 
bractes, conliituting the involucre: thefe, as well as the 
.flowers themfelves, are of a rich fanguine red. 
4. Embothrium filaifolium, or fniallage-leaved em¬ 
bothrium. Native of New Holland. The ffems, which 
are feveral, grow three or four feet high or more, and are 
upright, and alternately branched, and have alternate 
leaves, which in fliape much refemble tliofe of the Peu- 
cedanum (Hairs; the upper and lower leaves are, how¬ 
ever, more Ample : the flowers .(land- in a long loofe ter¬ 
minal fpike, and are white, with the tips of the petals 
-revolute. 
To EMBOT'TLE, v. a. l^bbuteilk, Fr.] To include in 
bottles; to bottle : 
Stirom, firmed fruit 
Embattled, long as Priamean Troy 
With flood the Greeks, endures. Philips. 
EMBOUL', a town of Africa, in the country of Se¬ 
negal . 1 
To EMBOW^EL, v. a. To put into bowels, as into the 
bowels of the earth. Dr. Johnfon has erroneoufly de¬ 
fined this word, “to evifeerate ; to deprive of the en¬ 
trails; to exenterate.” Mr. Burke in one infiance has 
ufed the word in that manner. He writes thus in his 
Reflections:—“ In England we have not yet been com¬ 
pletely embowilled.o'i our natural entrails.” He was pro¬ 
bably mi-fled' by the carlelfnefs of Dr. Johnfon. See Dis- 
bowel. — Spcn/er underftood and ufed the word aright: 
He, with his dreadful inftrument of ire, 
Thought fure have pounded him to powder foft. 
Or deep embowcll’d in the earth entire. 
Where the meaning is “put into the bowels of the earth.” 
—In like manner the word is ufed by Shakefpeare : 
Imbowell’d wj.ll I fee thee by and by; 
Till then in blocrd by noble Percy lie. Henry IV. 
Where the meaning is put into the bowels of the earth, 
or buried ; and certainly not, as Jojfnfon fuppofes, exen- 
terated. Of fuch brutality prince Henry was incapable. 
—In like manner the word is ufed by Milton: 
The roar 
Embowell'd with outrageous noife the air, - 
And all her entrails tore. 
.Where the noife is metaphorically deferibed as intro¬ 
ducing itfelf into the bowels of the air, and tearing them. 
—The paffage from Philips is quaint and unclear : he 
talks of Minerals that the embowell’d earth difplays ; mean¬ 
ing, apparently, “ minerals which within its bowels the 
earth difplays.The other paffage from Shakefpeare I 
know not where to feek : if it occurred in Richard II. 
or Henry VIII. and related to the Lollards, or the Pro- 
tefiants, one might with propriety fay, 
The fchools, 
Embowell'd of,their doftrine, have left off 
The wholefome lore. 
Meaning the fchools, or uni verfi ties, “which have re- 
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ceived into their ‘bowels the new doctrines.”' And thus 
every one of Dr. Johnfon’s cafes would be a precedent 
againff his definition. Monthly Mag. 
7 b EMBOW'ER, v. n. To bovver: 
But the fmall birds, in their wide boughs embowering, 
Chaunted their fundry tunes with fvveet concert. Sptnfer. 
To EMBRA-'CE, v\ a. \_embrajjcr, Fr.] To hold fondly 
in the arms ; to fqueeze in kindnefs : 
Embrace again, my fons! be foes no more ; 
Nor ftain your country with her children’s.gore. Dryden. 
To feize ardently or eagerly ; to lay hold on ; to wel¬ 
come ; to accept willingly any thing offered.—They who 
are reprefented by the.wife virgins, embraced the profeffion 
of the Chrifiian religion. Tillotfon. 
f take it, your own bufmefs calls on you, 
And you embrace th- occafion to depart. Shakefpeare. 
To comprehend; to take in: as, Naturalphilofophy em¬ 
braces ntany Jciaiccs. To comprife; to inclofe ; to con¬ 
tain ; to encompafs ; to encircle; 
Low at h.is feet a fpacious plain is plac’d, 
Between the mountain'and the ftream -embrac’d. Denham. 
To admit; to receive.—If a man can be affured of any 
thing, without having examined, what is there that lie 
may not embrace for truth ? Locke. —To find ; to take : 
Fleance, his fon, 
Whofe abfence is no lefs material to me 
Than is h.is father’s, inuft embrace the fate 
Of that dark hour. Shakefpeare. 
To fqueeze in a hoftile manner. To tie ; to fallen : 
-They feiz’d at laft 
His courfer’s bridle, and his feet embrac'd Dryden. 
[From imbracciare, Ital.] To put on : 
Who feeing him from far fo fierce to.pricke, 
His warlike armes about him-gan embrace. Spcnfer. 
To EMBRA'CE, v. n. To join in an embrace : 
I,el me embrace with old Vincentio ; 
And wander vve to lee thy honed, fon, 
Who will of thy arrival be full joyous. Shakefpeare. 
EMBRA-'CE, f. Clafp ; fond preffure in the arms ; 
hug. An hoftile fqueeze ; crufli : 
Thames, the mod lov’d of all the ocean’s fons 
By his old fire, to his embraces runs. Denham . 
EMBR A'CEMENT,yi Clafp in the arms ; hug ; em¬ 
brace.—There cheriftiing- one another with dear, though 
chafte embracemtnls, with fvveet, though cold kiffes, it 
might feem that love was come to play him there without 
darts. Sidney. 
Thus death becomes a rival to 11s all, 
And hopes with foul embracements her to get. 
In whofe decay virtue’s fair ftirine nnift fall. Sidney. 
Hoftile hug; grapple.—Thefe beads, fighting with any 
man, (land upon their hinder feet, and fo this did, being 
ready to give me a (hrewd embracement. Sidney. —Com. 
prphenfion.—Nor can her Wide embracements filled be. Da¬ 
vies. —State of being contained ; inclofure.—The parts in 
man’s body eafily reparable, as fpiiits, blood, and flefti, 
die in the embracements of the parts hardly reparable, as 
bones, nerves, and membranes. Bacon. —Conjugal endear¬ 
ment.— I would freelier rejoice in that abfence, wherein 
he woifhonour, than in the embracements of his bed, where 
he would fhevv mod love. Shakefpeare. —Willing accept¬ 
ance.— Both of them being.-God’s inftruments for the 
converllon of the Northumbrians to the embracement of 
Chrifiian religion. Weever. 
EMBR A'CEOR, f. f mbrajour, Fr,] In law, he that, 
when a matter is in trial between party and party, comes 
to the bar with one of the parties, having received fome 
reward fo to do, and (peaks in the cafe; or privately la. 
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