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Webster 1913 Edition


Embattled

Em-bat′tled

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Adj.
1.
Having indentations like a battlement.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
(Her.)
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Embattled

EMBAT'TLED

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pp.
Arrayed in order of battle.
1.
Furnished with battlements; and in heraldry,having the outline resembling a battlement, as an ordinary.
2.
Having been the place of battle; as an embattled plain or field.