Word Meanings - EMBATTLED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like. 3. Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field. J. Baillie. (more info) 1. Having indentations like a battlement. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to EMBATTLED)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• FIELDY
  Open, like a field. Wyclif.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• INFIELD
  To inclose, as a field.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• BLUEBEARD
  The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it