embower
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to embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered)
- (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Second Edition, Book IX
- Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d
- 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
- A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
- 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
- And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
- 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together
- The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Second Edition, Book IX
- (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225
- But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
- 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225
- (intransitive) To form a bower.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): John Milton
[edit] Translations
lodge or rest in or as in a bower
form a bower
[edit] References
- embower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914