Hypertext Webster Gateway: "embattled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embattle \Em*bat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embattled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Embattling}.] [OF. embataillier; pref. em- (L. in) +
F. bataille battle. See {Battle}, and cf. {Battlement}.]
To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to
prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
One in bright arms embattled full strong. --Spenser.
Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the
shot heard round the world. --Emerson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Embattled \Em*bat"tled\, a.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
embattled
adj 1: beset with attackers or controversy or conflict; "embattled
troops"; "an embattled governor"
2: prepared for battle; "an embattled city"
3: having repeated square indentations like those in a
battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: {crenelated}, {crenelate},
{crenellated}, {crenellate}, {indented}]
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