EMBOWER

embower, bower

(verb) enclose in a bower

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

(intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

(intransitive) To form a bower.

Source: Wiktionary


Em*bow"er, v. t.

Definition: To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees. [Written also imbower.] [Poetic] Milton.

– v. i.

Definition: To lodge or rest in a bower. [Poetic] "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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