an ancient kind of punishment, which consisted in thrusting a stake up the fundament. The word comes from the French empaler, or the Italian impalare; or rather, they are all alike derived from the Latin palus, "a stake," and the preposition in, "in or into." We find mention of empaling in Ju-

venal. It was frequently practised in the time of Nero, and continues to be so in Turkey.

EMPALEMENT of a flower, the same with CALYX.