n. [ F. arquebusade shot of an arquebus; eau d'arquebusade a vulnerary for gunshot wounds. ] 1. The shot of an arquebus. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Parr. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. camisade a night attack; cf. It. camiciata. See Camis. ] [ Obs. ] (Mil.) (a) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. (b) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. criosade. See Crusade. ] A holy war; a crusade. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. croisade, fr. Pr. crozada, or Sp cruzada, or It. crociata, from a verb signifying to take the cross, mark one's self with a cross, fr. L. crux cross; or possibly taken into English directly fr. Pr. Cf. Croisade, Crosado, and see Cross. ] 1. Any one of the military expeditions undertaken by Christian powers, in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries, for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A Portuguese coin. See Crusado. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crusaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crusading. ] To engage in a crusade; to attack in a zealous or hot-headed manner. “Cease crusading against sense.” M. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Azure-eyed and golden-haired,
Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F. ambassade. See Embassy. ] 1. The mission of an ambassador. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An embassy. [ Obs. ] Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ambassade. See Embassy. ] An embassy. See Ambassade. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. glisser to slip. ] 1. A sliding, as down a snow slope. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dance step consisting of a glide or slide to one side. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. lancepessade, lanspessade, anspessade, It. lancia spezzata a broken lance or demilance, a demilance roan, a light horseman, bodyguard. ] An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal. [ Obsolete ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It. palizzata, palizzo, LL. palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale. See Pale a stake. ] 1. (Fort.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. --
Palisade worm (Zool.), a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading. ] [ Cf. F. palissader. ] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See Pass, v. i. ] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Pavise. ] A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form.

The crown decked with torsades of pearls. Harper's Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]