Word Meanings - EMBATTLEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.

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• INTENDENT
  See N
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• INTENDER
  One who intends. Feltham.
• INTENDMENT
  The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument. (more info) 1. Charge; oversight. Ford. 2. Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.
• INTENDANCY
  1. The office or employment of an intendant. 2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
• INTENDANT
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
• BUILDING
  1. The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing. Hence it is that the building of our Sion rises no faster. Bp. Hall. 2. The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture. The execution of works of architecture
• PARAPETALOUS
  Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• BATTLEMENT
  fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature,
• BUILDER
  One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason. In the practice of civil architecture, the builder comes between the architect who designs the work and the artisans who execute it. Eng. Cyc.
• FORTIFY
  1. To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. Timidity was fortified by pride. Gibbon. Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution. Sir W. Scott. 2. To strengthen
• BATTLEMENTED
  Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.
• INTENDED
  1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. Spenser. 2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper. 3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
• INTENDEDLY
  Intentionally. Milton.
• BUILD
  1. To exercise the art, or practice the business, of building. 2. To rest or depend, as on a foundation; to ground one's self or one's hopes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.
• INTEND
  intentum, and intensum, to intend, attend, stretch out, extend; pref. 1. To stretch' to extend; to distend. By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale. 2. To strain; to make tense. When a bow is successively intended and remedied.
• PARAPET
  A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. (more info) guard + petto the breast, L. pectus.
• PARAPETED
  Having a parapet.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• OVERBUILD
  1. To build over. Milton. 2. To build too much; to build beyond the demand.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• SURINTENDANT
  Superintendent.
• REBUILD
  To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
• UNBUILD
  To demolish; to raze. "To unbuild the city." Shak.
• MISINTEND
  To aim amiss.
• CASTLEBUILDER
  Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes. -- Cas"tle*build`ing, n.