Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The crops or products of the land legally belonging to a tenant.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of emblement.
Etymologies
- From Middle English emblaiment, from Old French emblaement, from emblaer, to sow with grain, from Medieval Latin imblādāre : Latin in-, in; see en-1 + Medieval Latin blādum, blādium, grain (of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term includes emblements, in - dustrial growing crops, and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale.”
Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
“With regard to emblements, or profits of land fowed by tenant for years, there is this difference between him and tenant for life: That where the term of tenant for years depends upon a certainty, as if he holds from Midfummer for ten years, and in the laft year he fows a crop of corn, and it is not ripe and cut before Midfummer, the end of his term, the landlord Ihall have il; for the tenant knew the expiration of his term, and therefore it was his own folly to fow what he nevci Lh. f.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘emblements’.
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from phrontistery.info
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acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Real Estate Law
The area I'm employed in - not as an attorney but a civil servant working as the clerk of a county assessment appeals board.
joint tenant, interspousal, abutting, fee simple, inter vivos trust, grantee, hold harmless, laches, leasehold estate, right of survivor..., life estate, mechanic's lien and 86 more...
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live thriving words
IE roots of bhel- and a few others
bless, blossom, foil, foliage, folio, folium, cinquefoil, defoliate, exfoliate, feuilleton, perfoliate, milfoil and 67 more...
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