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Webster 1913 Edition
Embower
Em-bow′er
,Verb.
T.
To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.
[Written also
imbower
.] [Poetic]
Milton.
– Verb.
I.
To lodge or rest in a bower.
[Poetic]
“In their wide boughs embow’ring. ” Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Embower
EMBOW'ER
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
embower
embower
English
Alternative forms
Verb
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
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
Translations
enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage
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lodge or rest in or as in a bower
form a bower
References
- embower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914