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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'embower' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions embower verb  (transitive) (poetic) to enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. (RQ:Milton Lost 1674, 9) - Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd 1809: w:Washington Irving, Washington Irving, A History of New York ..., by Dietrich Knickerbocker - A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms. 1852: w:Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, s:The Lady of Shalott, The Lady of Shalott - And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott 1884: w:Donald Grant Mitchell, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together - The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. 1591: w:Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, line 225 - But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent; (intransitive) To form a bower. - w:John Milton, John Milton        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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