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Empale
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale. All that dwell near enemies empale villages, to save themselves from surprise. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. To inclose; to surround. See Impale.
3. To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
4. Same as Impale.