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hours the jury, or (lands in (lie court to furvey and 
overlook them, whereby they are awed or influenced, or 
put in fear or doubt of the matter. 19 Hen. V II. c. 13. 
But lawyers, attorneys, &c. may (peak in the cafe tor 
their clients, and not be embraceors: alfo the plaintiff 
may labour the jurors to appear in his own caufe ; but a 
‘((ranger mil ft not do it : for the bare writing a letter to a 
perfon, or parol requeft for a juror to appear, not by the 
party himfelf, hath been held within the (latutes again ft 
embracery and maintenance. Co. Lit. 369. Hob. 294. If 
the party himfelf inftru'ft a juror, or profnife any'reward 
for his appearance, then the party is likewife an etnbra- 
ceor. And a juror may be guilty of embracery, where 
lie by indirect prabtices gets himfelf fworn on the tales, 
to ferve on one fide. 1 Ltl. 513. There are divers (latutes 
relating to this offence and maintenance. See the article 
Maintenance. 
EMBRA'CER, f. The perfon embracing.—Yet are 
they the greateft embracers of pleafure of any other upon 
earth; and they cfleem of pearls as pebbles, fo they may 
fatisfy theipguff, in point of pleafure or revenge, Howel. 
EMBR A'CERY, yi in law, an attempt to influence a 
jury .corruptly to one.fide, by promifes, perfuafions, en¬ 
treaties, money, entertainments, and the like. The pu- 
nifliment for the perfon embracing, (the embrace or,) is 
by fine and imprifonment; and for the juror fo embraced, 
if it be by takingmoney, rhe punifhment is (by various 
fiats, of Edw. III. viz. 5 Edw. III. c. 10. 34Edw.. III. 
c. 8. 38 Edw. III. c. 12.) perpetual infamy, imprifon¬ 
ment for a year, and forfeiture of ten-fold value. 1 Hawk. 
:P. C. c. 85. 
EMBR A'SURE, f. [Fr.] In architecture, an enlarge¬ 
ment of the aperture or opening of a door, or window, 
within fide the wall, (loping back inwards, to give the 
greater play for. the opening of the door, cafement, &c. 
or to take in more light. In fortification, the apertures 
xir holes through which the cannon are pointed, whether 
in cafemates, batteries, or in the parapets of walls. In 
the navy, they are called port-holes. The embrafures 
are placed twelve or fifteen feet apart from each other; 
being made (loping or opening outwards, from fix to nine 
feet wide on the outfide of the wall, and from two to 
three within, to allow the gun to tfaverfe from fide to 
fide. Their bafe is about two and a half or three feet 
above the platform on the infide of the wall, but (loping 
down outwards, fo as to be only about one and a half 
above it on the outfide ; in order that the muzzle on oc- 
caffon may be depreffer], that the gun may (hoot low, or 
downwards.—This fort, which is faced with done, has 
eighteen or twenty embrafures. Carteret's Voyage in HawkcJ- 
wortk. —[In Shakcjpeare.] Embraoe : 
Beguiles our lips 
Of all rejoindufe, forcibly prevents 
Our.lock’d anbrajures. Troilus and CrcJJida. 
To EMBRA'VE, v. a. [from brave.'] To decorate ; to 
embellilh ; to deck ; to grace ; to adorn. Not in vje: 
So, both agree their bodies to engrave; 
'The great earth’s womb they open to the dry, 
And, with fad cyprefs, feemiy it embrave. SpenJ'er. 
EMBREW'ED, adj. in heraldry, dipt in blood. 
EMBRHU'HREN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
-of Wefiphalia, and bifhopric of M11 after : ten miles 
north-north-weft of Rheine. 
To EM'BROCATE, v. a. Gr.] Tp rub any" 
part difealed with medicinal liquors.—I returned her a 
glafs with oil of rofes and vinegar, to embrocate^ her arm. 
IVif email. 
EM BROC A'TION, f. The aft of rubbing any part 
difeafed with medicinal liquors or ("pints. The lotion 
with which any difeafed part is waftied or embrocated.— 
We endeavoured to eafe by difeutient and emollient cata- 
plafms, and embrocations of various forts. Wfeman. 
To EMBROI'DER, v. a. [ broder, Fr.] To border with 
ornaments ; to decorate with figured work ; to diverfify 
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with needlework ; to adorn a ground with raifed figures 
of needlework. —Such an accumulation of favours is 
like a kind of embroidering, or lifting of one favour upon 
another: 
Embroider'd purple clothes the golden "beds; 
This (lave the floor, and that the table fpreads. Pope. 
EMBROI'DERER, f. One that adorns clothes with 
needlework.—Blue (ilk and purple, the work of the em¬ 
broiderer. Ecclcf 
EMBROIDERY, J\ Figures raifed upon a ground ; 
variegated needlework.—Laces and embroideries arb more 
coftly than either warm or comely. Bacon. 
Next tliefe a youthful train their vows exprefs’d, 
With feathers crown’d, with gay embroidery drefs’d. Pope. 
Variegation; diverfity of colours.—If the natural embroi - 
dety of the meadows were helpt and improved by art, a 
man might make a pretty landscape of his own pofleffions. 
Spedator. 
By 22 Geo. II. c. 36. no foreign embroidery, or gold 
and (liver brocade, '(hall be imported, upon pain of being 
forfeited and burnt, and penalty of iooI. for each piece. 
No perfon (hall fell, or expofe to fale, any foreign em¬ 
broidery, gold or (ilv.er thread, lace, fringe, brocade, 01- 
make up the fame into any garment, on pain of having 
it forfeited and burnt, and penalty of 100I. All filch 
embroidery. See. may be feized and burnt ; and the mer¬ 
cer, &c. in whofe cuftody it was found, (hall forfeit iool. 
Tv EMBROIL', v. a. fbfouilUr, Fr. ] To difturb ; to 
confufe; to cliff radt ; to throw into commotion; to in¬ 
volve in troubles by diffention and difeord : 
Rumour next, and chance, 
And tumult and eonfufion, all embroil'd. 
And difeord with a thoufand various mouths. Milton. 
To perplex ; to entangle.—The Chriftian antiquities at 
Rome, though of a frefher date,' are fo embroiled with fa¬ 
ble and legend, that one receives but little fatisfafilion. 
Addifon. —In the following paflage the word feems im¬ 
properly ufed for broil or burn. —That knowledge, for 
which we boldly attempt to rifle God’s cabinet, (hould, 
like the coal from the altar, ferve only to embroil and con-, 
fume the iacrilegious invaders. Decay of Piety. 
To EMBRG'THEL, v.. a. \_brothel, brodel. ] To inclofe 
in a brothel: 
Men, which choofe 
Law practice for mere gain, boldly repute, 
Worfe than embrothel'd (irumpets proftitute. Donne. 
EM'BRUN, a city of France, and principal place of 
a diftriiSt, in the department of the Higher Alps, on the 
Durance; before the revolution, the fee of an archbifhop, 
containing five parifiies, and about 12,600 inhabitants. it 
was taken in 1692, by Vidtor Amadeus II. king of Sardi¬ 
nia, but abandoned foon after ; and, a little time after, 
Louis IV. built Mount Dauphin, to prevent the like cir- 
cumftance another time: fix leagues eaft of Gap. Lat. 
44. 24. N. Ion. 24. 9. E. Ferro. 
EM'BRYO, or EMBRYON,yi [from e u.Zpva, Gr. to 
pullulate or bud forth.] The offspring yet unfinilhed in 
the womb. See the article Conception, vol. v. p. 4. 
—The bringing forth of living creatures may be accele¬ 
rated, if the embryo ripeneth and perfecteth fooner. Ba¬ 
con. —An exclufion before conformation, before the birth 
can bear the name of the parent, or be fo much as pro¬ 
perly called an embryon. Brown. 
When the crude embryo careful nature breeds. 
See how (he works, and how her work proceeds. Blackm. 
The (late of any thing yet not fit for production ; yet un- 
finifhed.—The company little fufpected what a noble 
work I had then in embryo. Swift. 
EM'BRYONATE, adj. Belonging to an embryo. Scott. 
EMBRYOTHLAS'TES.y; [from By.fyvvy, Gr. the foe¬ 
tus, and 6 asc^, to break.] In forgery, an inftrumentfof 
breaking the bones.of a dead feetus to promote its delivery. 
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