‖ emˈplectonArch. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἔµπλεκτον: see prec.] ‘A kind of masonry, in which the outsides of the wall are ashlar, and the interval filled up with rubbish’ (Liddell and Scott). 1708–15Kersey, Emplecton opus, Masons-work well knit and couched together.1731in Bailey, vol. II.