Embark

1. v. i. To engage in any affair.
2. v. t. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
3. v. t. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
4. v. i. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.