rlooking the country around.

EMISSARY. A culvert or drain.

EMPRISE. A hazardous attempt upon the enemy.

EMPTIONS. Stores purchased.

EMPTY. Cargo discharged.

EMPTY BASTION. In fortification is a bastion whereof the terreplein, or
terrace in rear of the parapet, not having been carried farther to the
rear than its regular distance, leaves a large space within it of a
lower level.

EMPTY BOTTLE. _See_ MARINE OFFICER.

ENCAMPMENT. _See_ CAMP.

ENCEINTE. [Fr.] A slightly bastioned wall or rampart line of defence,
which sometimes surrounds the body of a place; when only flanked by
turrets it is called a Roman wall.

ENCIRCLING REEFS. A name given to a form of coral reef, the architecture
of myriads of zoophytes in tropical seas.

ENCOUNTER. The hostile meeting of two ships or squadrons; also, a
conflict between troops.

ENDANGER, TO. To expose to peril.

ENDECAGON. In geometry, a plane figure of eleven sides and angles.

ENDELONG. The old English word for lengthways.

END FOR END. Reversing cordage, casks, logs, spars, &c.--To shift a rope
_end for end_, as in a tackle, the fall is made the standing part, and
the standing part becomes the fall; or when a rope runs out all a block,
and is unreeved; or in coming to an anchor, if the stoppers are not well
put on, and the cable runs all out end for end. (_See_ AN-END.)

END OF A TRENCH. The place where the trenches are opened.

END-ON. Said particularly of a ship when only her bows and head-sails
are to be seen, but generally used in opposition to _broadside-on_.

ENEMY. The power or people against whom war is waged.

ENFIELD RIFLE. The name of the present regulation musket for infantry,
as made at the government works at Enfield, on an improvement of the
Minie principle; whether the breach-loading rifle, which it is intended
to substitute for this arm, will acquire the same title, remains to be
determined.

ENFILADE FIRE. Is that which sweeps a line of works or men from one end
to the other; it is on land nearly the equivalent to "raking fire" at
sea.

ENGAGEMENT. In a naval sense, implies a battle at sea, or an action of
hostility between single ships, squadrons, or fleets of men-of-war.
Also, a conflict between two contending armies.

ENGINE, MARINE. (_See_ MARINE ENGINES.) Engine was of old a military
machine for warfare.

ENGINE-BEARERS. Sleepers, or pieces of timber placed between the
keelson, in a steamer, and the boilers of the steam-engi