Em'blē-ment, n.

noun

n. [Norm. Fr. emblear, emblements, O. Fr. embléer, emblaer, emblader, emblayer, emblaver, bléer, blayer, It. imbladare, to sow with corn, from Fr. bled, blé, corn, grain, It. biado, Pr. blat, probably of Celtic origin.] (Law.) The produce or fruits of land sown or planted; the growing crops of those vegetable productions of the soil, such as grain, garden roots, and the like, which are not spontaneous, but require an outlay of cost and labor in one part of the year, the recompense for which is to arise in the shape of a crop in another part of the same year;—used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not signified by the term. Wharton. Grady.