- embower
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transitive verb
Date: 1580
to shelter or enclose in or as if in a bower <like a rose embowered in its own green leaves — P. B. Shelley>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
embower
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Embower — Em*bow er, v. t. To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also {imbower}.] [Poetic] Milton. v. i. To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] In their wide boughs embow ring. Spenser. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
embower — [em bou′ər] vt. to enclose or shelter in or as in a bower … English World dictionary
embower — /em bow euhr/, v.t., v.i. to shelter in or as in a bower; cover or surround with foliage. Also, imbower. [1570 80; EM 1 + BOWER1] * * * … Universalium
embower — verb a) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d b) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. A small Indian village, pleasantly… … Wiktionary
embower — v. cover with branches, create a bower … English contemporary dictionary
embower — [ɪm baʊə, ɛm ] verb literary surround or enclose … English new terms dictionary
embower — em·bower … English syllables
embower — em•bow•er [[t]ɛmˈbaʊ ər[/t]] v. t. to shelter in or as if in a bower; cover with foliage • Etymology: 1570–80 … From formal English to slang
embower — /ɛmˈbaʊə/ (say em bowuh) verb (t) to shelter in or as in a bower; cover or surround with foliage …
embower — v.tr. literary enclose as in a bower … Useful english dictionary
