embrew

English

Verb

embrew (third-person singular simple present embrews, present participle embrewing, simple past and past participle embrewed)

1. Obsolete form of imbrue.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet LIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:

     Great shame it is , thing fo divine in view ,
     Made for to be the worlds most ornament,
     To make the bayte her gazers to embrew

References

• “embrew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.