Embattle. To arrange in order of battle; to draw up in array, as troops for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle.
Embattle. To furnish with battlements. “Embattled” house.
Embattlement. An indented parapet; battlement.
Embezzlement. See Appendix, [Articles of War], [60].
Emblazonry. See [Blazonry].
Emblee (Fr.). A prompt, sudden, and vigorous attack, which is made against the covert way and outworks of a fortified place.
Embody. To form or collect into a body or united mass; as, to embody troops.
Embrasseur (Fr.). A piece of iron, which grasps the trunnions of a piece of ordnance, when it is raised upon the boring machine, to widen its caliber.
Embrasure. In fortification, is an opening in the parapet, or a hole in the mask wall of a casemate through which the guns are pointed. The [sole] or bottom of the embrasure is from 21⁄2 to 4 feet (according to the size of the gun) above the platform upon which the gun stands. Parapet embrasures are smallest at the interior opening, which is called the mouth, and is from 11⁄2 to 2 feet wide. The widening of the embrasure is what is called the [splay]. The sole slopes downward about one in six. Its exterior line, or its intersection with the exterior slope, is usually made half the length of the sole. The line which bisects the sole is called the directrix. The sides are called cheeks. The masses of earth between embrasures are called [merlons]. When the directrix makes an angle with the direction of the parapet, the embrasure is oblique. The embrasures of casemates have in horizontal section a shape something like an hour-glass. The nearest part is called the throat. This is sometimes closed with iron shutters.
Embrocher. A vulgar term used among French soldiers to signify the act of running a man through the body; literally to spit him.