Word Meanings - EMBATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the

Additional info about word: EMBATTLE

To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.

Related words: (words related to EMBATTLE)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• EQUIPENSATE
  To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• FIREFLY
  Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridæ. Note: The common American species belong to the genera Photinus and Photuris, in which both sexes are winged. The name is also applied to luminous species of Elateridæ.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• FIREARM
  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• FIREDRAKE
  1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• EQUIPEDAL
  Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.
• FIRMAN
  In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance.
• FIRE-FANGED
  Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.
• FIREWORM
  The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• UNFIRM
  Infirm. Dryden.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• UNDERSTOOD
  imp. & p. p. of Understand.
• SPITFIRE
  A violent, irascible, or passionate person. Grose.